NEWS BY CABLE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16488, 2 March 1914, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE.

“ Times.”—Sydney “ {3un “ Special Cables. COLLAPSE .OF A WALL. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 27. A wall surrounding Seraglio Park collapsed, burying twenty-two labourers. Five were killed and two seriously injured. DOMESTIC SERVANTS INSUR- . ANCE IN GERMANY. BERLIN, February 27. The State insurance of domestic servants has broken down because 10 per cent of the wages was taken. It has been decided to create u separate class restricted solely to domestics. ' THE TOLL OF THE ALPS. .(Received February 28, 5.45 p.m.) PARIS, February 28! Three members of the French Alpine Club left Lyons on a skiing expedition to the Alps. They were afterwards found buried beneath an avalanche of snow.

THE VANDERBILT CUP. NEW YORK, February 28. De Palma won the Vanderbilt Cup doing 294 miles in a Mercedes car. He averaged 73J miles an hour. THE POPE’S HEALTH. ROME, February 27. In order to avoid endangering the Pope’s health, the Consistory will be held in May. SALE OF A VANDYCK. ROME, February 28. Mr H. 0. Friok, president of the H. C Frick Coke Company, and expresident of the Carnegie Steel Company, has purohased Vandyok’a “ Paolo Adorno ” at a cost of £BO,OOO.