CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1874, 7 October 1913, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Teleeraph—Prose Association— CopyTi&liS • « CRIMINAL STATISTICS. . (Press Association.) London, October 5. The Prisons Reiwrt shows that thora l wore nearly 10,000 fewer prisoners sentenced than in the preceding year, and that tliere were 100,000 fewer tried. EX-KING MANOKL'S WIFE. Berlin, October 5. i Tlio Portuguese Government has pra« tested against ex-King Manoel'e wife taking tlio title of Queen. MARINE DISASTER.—THIRTY-TWO MEN DROWNED. Rio do Janoiro, October 5. As tho result of the collision wbicWi occurred during the night between ai steamor and a military tug which wasj following tho manoeuvres _in a thick j fog and rough sea, dt is officially stated.' tliat thirty-twoi persons were drowned.' 1

i Mr. Arthur Cheatle, president of tha/ Otology section of tho International Med!w col Congress, drew attention to a form ofi occupation doafness of which he saidil tlicy would hoar a good deal in tho fuhiro,| Several people had come to hiiu latolyil suffering from deafness after having beeinj up in. aeroplanes. The three factors con<j d'ueivo to this wero the height, tho rate) at which the machine went through the* nir, and tho noise made by the ongine. , • Some of tiio settlors in tlio AnnanJ distriofc of Canterbury report cxceliontij lambing returns. ■In 0110 case ij farmer lias a flock of 163 owes, and thoyj liavo a total of 207 lambs. On anotlicil farm thore arc 65 ewes and 80 lambs,) and on another a flock of COO ewes haw returned a percentage of 128. The widow of a man who had strangled himself with a silk handkerchief at Delhi nal Grcon asked tho Coroner at tho iiH quest if elm could havo the handkerchief J Tho Coroner replied: "You cannot have it. In such casc.s wo never give up th» articles There have been casf.i vliero porsons liavo received thein, and, becoming quite upset at tho eight, nf thorn, liavo gono and done the same thing: as,the dead person." Although motor Bashing boats are increasing in favour among British fishermen. they are a long way behind Tenmark and Norway, where motor vessels are used in very numbers. In Eng. . land and Wales this method of propulsion is practically only in tho cxperi. \ mental stage, and opinions are divided as \ to whether tho use of motor engines in tho larger eea-going fishing vessels will i ovor beeonia a practical proposition.