MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2351, 6 January 1915, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS

j. STOCK OF MERCHANDISE ; CONGESTION IN LONDON j < London, January 4. 'i 'All records Have been broken in mor- ■ chandise stored or waiting to be stored ,in the docks and warehouses in toe . Port of London.' There are twentyeight liners at Gravesend garrying every kind of cargo waiting to berth. In one ; warehouse alono there are 650,000 tons ! *Df goods and 80,000 tons of sugar. The congestion is caused by the lack of lai ' hour.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" ' Services.) ; EXTRACTION OF BULLETS. i | , MEDIOAL RESTRICTION. ' 1 London, January 4. ' The British'"Medical Journal''states Ivfchai there is a tendency to restrict I'the searching for and extraction of bullets and shell fragments from the i .wounded, 'the human body having a re- ■ imarkable 'toleration 'for foreign snbpstanoes.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" fServioes.) BELGIAN LEVIES. •fl?OK SERVICE IN GERMAN 'ARMY. ' Amsterdam, January 4. The German commandant at the village of Ov'erpelt, has summoned Belgians of the 1914, 1915/ and 1916 levies i for incorporation in the' German Army. ZEPPELIN SHEDS. ', INCREASING AT BRUGES. Amsterdam, January 4. Zeppelin sheds and aeroplane hangars increasing at Bruges. ;' BRONZE CATES. ['.COiyfiyfANDEERED BY GERMANS. Amsterdam, January 4. , _ The Germans have taken the well- ; iknown bronze gates at the Antwerp' , tailway, station for military purposes. ,

EDITOR EXECUTED. .: ,*T>R MAKING SEDITIOUS SPEECH. _ Amsterdam, January 4. . Joseph Roiel, editor of a newspaper, nao been executed at Prossnitz' (in Moravia, Austria-Hungary) for maknv K seditious speech. . ...-.:.■ •'* '■ CIFTS FROM SYDNEY.: : FOR THE,GUARDS BRIGADE. ' _. _ , _ London, January 4. 'Sir T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for £ew South Wales, has' sent from the Sydney Citizens' War Chest Fund consignments of woollen comforts to' the' .Guards Brigade in the trenches, whose fcommandant writes: "I am very grate(furfor the magnificent; present; which HFas;most acceptable.". ■~ : • '-, ACTION, FOR './DAMAGES! , •* AN- UNUSUAL: CASE: -;; (Rec. January 5, 8.50 p.m!) m.- ™ SyJney, January 5. r The Wharf Labourers' Union's' decision with respect to members working , with enemy subjects has led to a -Supremo Court action in which August j Jensen is claiming £150 damages from' : the union, also a writ of injunction to ;,restrain, the union from:preventing him > obtaining employment", as 'a wharf lariourer. ■'..-■.''. >.-' ■•■'■■ :•-;- « EMDEN'S LOOTED COLD.

THROWN OVERBOARD. '. (Rec. January 5, 8.50 p.m.) i on. ~m- Fjensan'tle, January 5. < / lmes of Ceylon" reports that j the Emden's pnsoners state that pre:>ious to the.beaching the sailors threw icuerboard two bags of looted gold. ADVANCE IN BREAD. |■ ■ DUE TO GAMBLING. ;.. (Reo. January, 5, 11.30 p.m.) ' ''■'•« j a '■. Lon d<">i January 5. . Bread has advanced to 7Jd. the quar;!fter loaf. i Corn merchants attribute the advance ;,to the rise in freights and the failure i-or the Australian harvest. Other aui thonties declare it to bo due to gambling m the United States and,Britahi. ITALIAN WAR LOAN. OVER-SUBSCRIBED. ■■'.;'' - (Rec. January 5,' 11.30 p.m.) Rome, January 5. ;.' The Italian war loan has been over- ] "subscribed. EXPORTS OF WOOL. I 'PERMITTED UNDER CONDITIONS. \. ■ ! (Rec. January 6, 1.15 a.m.) ' Melbourrie, January 6, ■■''■ I' The Government has decided to\ al-l-flow wool, hides, and skins to be exj' ported to Franco in British or French | ships; also shipments of merino wool, ! hides and skins to America subject to I approved and satisfactory guarantees [being given that the material will not, f be re-exported in either a raw or manufactured form, and to preference being : given to British ships. •'..,' . BUSINESS MEN'S MESSACE. ■GERMANY'S ECONOMIC WOUNDS. (Rec. January 6,~0.i55 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 5. I Berlin commercial men forwarded a j' New Tear message to the Kaiser, in ; -. which they trusted that all wounds ini flicted on Gerxian economic life would " ; bo ifialed, and compensated' in the fuf Mire. '