SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 89, 19 August 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS WHAT'S IN A NAME? ■ By Flectuic Telegraph—■Coi'YJUGUt] ITjieb—Sydney .Sun Special Caules. (Received 8 a.m.) Loudon, August 18. Tun,stall inherits the fortune on condition that he takes Wetwell’s name. IS IT JUSTIFIABLE? London, August 18. The Rev. W. Temple, M.A., headmaster of Repton School, speaking at Oxford, described the Cat and Mouse Act as a form of torture. He [would allow militants to please themselves as to tho course to be taken in supplying them with nourishment suitable for recovery, but lie could not conceive why the State interfered to forbid suicide. Tho Government had passed legislation outraging human liberty instead of recognising man’s right to commit suicide.

MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY. London, August 18. Consternation lias been caused in Ireland through Harland and Woolf establishing ship-building works at Liverpool,, Guinness 'and Co. ' erecting a brewery in Manchester, and Jacobs (biscuit makers) opening a bakery in Lancashire. The White Star Co. is also proposing- to abandon Queenstown. ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY. London, August 18. Events in connection with the Derry doling are likely to cause the disbanding of the Royal Irish Constabulary, is religious bitterness is spoiling their impartiality. PAN-SLAV ALLIANCE. Bucharest, August 18. It is stated that betrothals forejhadowing a great Pan-Slav Alliance vill shortly be announced as follows: Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the vir.g of Roumauia to the Crown Prince if GTeece ; Princess Tatiana, the Czar’s daughter, to Charles, son of the Crown Prince of Roumania; and Princess Olga, daughter of the Czar, to the heir apparent of Servia

SEIZURE OF THE DAVIS CUP. Now York, August 18. The customs authorities have seized "ho Davis Cup, which arrived in the steamer Mauretania until the duty is laid, arguing that although the cup originally belonged to America,, at bey ; 0 came foreign property when won by l ' England. Newspapers comment on the seizure as the crowning achievenent of stupidity. CARNEGIE PEACE PALACE. Hague, August 18. Queen Wilhelmina opens the Caricgio Peace Palace on 28th September. Every country contributed building material. THE JEW ELLERY ROBBERY. London, August 18. The bag containing £IO,OOO worth of jewels was taken to the Llandudno Hotel by a woman assistant in a handbag while moving. A motorist engaged her in conversation, and departed shortly in the motor'oar. Subse'inently it was discovered that the bag vas filled with novels, substituted while talking.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES. ) i London, August 18. Tho Duke of "Westipinster, Earl Grey, and Lords Harris, Roberts, Rothschild and Strathcona, have appealed for £IOO,OOO to adequately train i British team for the Olympic Games. Die amount sought is not merely far ■lie purpose of tho Games, but it is hoped to provide an athletic organisation resulting in permanent national benefit. RICH GOLD FIND IN* ALASKA. Ottawa, August 18. Air Cairns, the Dominion geologist, reports that rich new goldfields have bec’i discovered hi the Whit* 4 Rive - and Shashanana districts. Hundreds of prospectors are departing thence from Dawson City.