MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2286, 21 October 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

INTER GARMENTS FOR THE ■ ■ . ' TROOPS. : I (Rec. October 20, .5.50 p.m.) . London, October 19. Thousands of women are' ; foverishly .'ldritting'warm garments which 'are so. ' indispensable to troops while out winter camping—("Times" and Sydney "Sun", Services.) AMUSEMENT IN "WASHINGTON, i . (Rec. October 20, 5.50 p.m.) London, October j 19. , j Mucli amusement has been caused at 1 Washington by the receipt of a post card from' a Harvard ex-student re--1 ported to be fighting with the English Army, offering £2.000,000 if "Harvard •; University will consent to / dismiss the i German professors. The message is re;yarded'as a lingo hoax.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) . '. J : PINED FOR TAKING ■ LETTERS TO BERLIN. *■ (Rec. October 20, 10.20 p.m.) ' London,, October 19. ( :!An American, citizen has been fined bt the Bow Street Police Court for carrying. twenty-seven business" letters ' to and from Berlin and London on behalf of merchants. Thp peualty was £3 for each letter. ' ' M.P.'S HOSTILE RECEPTION. v London, October 19. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, M.P., 'of the Labour Party, in addressing a meeting at; Leicester, received a hostile' reception, and was greeted with: shouts of "Traitor!" REFUGEES KILLED IN A COL- * ' , LISION. ■- ' Paris, October 19. It is_ reported that thirty refugees were killed and a "hundred injured in . a'railway collision at Boulogne. " .WIRELESS "TO RABAUL. . Sydney, October-20. . The Postal' authorities notify. that wireless communication with Itabaul, via Thtirsday Island and Port Moresby, is open for public correspondence, but that press messages will not be'permitted. . • NO .WObL' FOR ENEMY SUBJECTS. Sydney, October 20. 'At to-day's wool auctions, . and Austrians will not be allowed to operato. ■ : SHOOTING OF THE BUXTONS. , Bucharest, October 19. ,The.Foreign Ministor has visited the Messrs. j Buxton, expressing tho Government's regret at tho odious crime. A Turk' at Pachilassam, 'Turkey, fired four shots at Mr. Noel'Buxton, M.P. for North Norfolk, and his brother, Mr. Charles Buxton, while'they wero motoring at Bucharest. Mr. Noel Buxton was sliot through a lung, and his brother slightly wounded. ' -.