CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1870, 2 October 1913, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Telegraph—Press Aseociation—Copyright (Rec.' October 1, 11.40 p.m.), London, Octobor 1. Abo .Mitchell,-in the "Golf Monthly," explains that tho' cTlicf reason for his becoming a professional was the hostility manifested by. amateurs towards him bccauso he is an artisan.

Sydney, October 1. Tho Legislative Council Ims passed tlio £3,000,000 Railways Loan Bill.

Sydney, October 1. The Fair Rents Bill of tlio _ New South Wales Government was rejected on tho second reading in tlio Legislative Council by 3G votes to 7. Constantinople, September 30. The worst floods within living memory have occurred in the European Sweet Wate-s district, near tlio city. Houses and gardens Jiavo boon swept away, and thirty workmen drowned. London, October 1. Tho British rovenue for tlio quarter totals £33,431,799, made up as follows: —Customs £8,553,000, oxciso £8,559,000. estate duties ,£7,048,000, stamps £2,340,000. London, October 1. Count Tolstoi's widow Ims published her husband's letters, numbering G56, which lie luid written to her while he was attending some heo hives only a mile from home, to show what a devoted husband he was.—Sydney "Sun" Special. "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, September 30. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the wellknown playwright,' in a lecturo at Sheffield, urged, the creation of municipal repertory theatres, and that mayors should patronise such theatres as frepuently as possible, and givo tho greatest publicity to their official visits. Ottawa, September 30. Tlio newspapers nro strongly urging that Mr. Herbert Samuel, British Post-master-General, should agreo to a sneedy settlement of tho State-owned Atlantic salvia question.