HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 100, 1 September 1913, Page 6

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

IN HIS ROYAL FATHER’S STEPS

[By Electric Telegraph— Copyright Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables

(Received 8.0 a.m.)

London. August 31

Prince Albert has boon appoints midshipman on H.M.S. Collingwood Vice-Admiral Colville, commands; the Collingwood, was a Lieut, on the corvette Canada in 1883, when the King was midshipman on the same warship.

RECORD BIRTHDAY CAKE.

A record birthday cake, sixteen fee high, with a twenty-five feet base am throe tiers, has been manufacture; in order to celebrate the coming o age of the Confectioners’ Exhibit'a on Saturday.

AUSTRALIAN MEAT TRADE. London, August 31.

Sir George .Reid is obtaining a report on the prospects of pushing ib Australian meat trade in Germany as recent events suggest the pom' bility of great expansion.

A SWIMMING CHALLENGE.

London, August 31

Wolfe. has challenged Sullivan i swim for the long distance champhi ship of the world. Sullivan is willin to swim across the Channel until eith > man desists.

AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS. London, August 31

Australian artists,. under the pn sidency of Mr Bertram Mackenna have drawn up proposals regarJin the mural decoration and statuary fe the Commonwealth building, and ihu that the work ought to be reserve for Australians. Sir George Rei has forwarded the proposals to M Cook, Commonwealth Premier,

A COOL CAMERA MAN, Paris, August 31. A travelling photographer called i a butcher’s shop and complimented \l proprietor on the fine show of men He suggested that he should take photograph, of the family group, i of the shop. The butcher ccr seated, and the man took a quarto of an hour for the position. Who the butcher returned to the shop h found that it had been ransacked an stripped of the meat. The camera which was left in the street, was men ly a cardboard box covered with blac cloth.

LUCKY MONGOLIAN PROSPFX

TORS. Pekin, August 31

A Mongolian company for gold in the Kudur Valley disco' ered auriferous ground with two vein l one of which is cxtraordinaidy .-id

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. London, August 31 The Government has directed th cancellation of all licenses issued f rifle clubs in Ulster, anticipating, pr sumably, that the clubs, numhenr 140, would disband, but the major-.: of the members decided to pay the ordinary license fee and continue L practice.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES. London, August 31

Mr Hugh Mclntosh, boxing promt ter, in a letter tp'the Times, urge that the Dominions are anxious t sustain the athletic supremacy of th race. It is therefore desirable t send an Olympic team represents the whole Empire. Ho undertaker if Britain consents, to organise in con junction with the Dominions to rais £SOOO in Australia towards finding an training likely champions.

PANAMA EXHIBITION, Berlin, August 30

The League of German Industrialist is still hopeful of representation a the Panama Exhibition. It assert that the Government ignored a pro posal for the inquiry among industrial ists prior to declining to exhibit, bring simply anxious to follow England

COMEDY TURNS TO TRAGEDY. London, August 30.

Five thousand persons were employ ed in acting Ivanhoe near Chepstow* Castle for a cinematograph. During the battle scene, many engaged los* their beads and fought in earnest There wore a number of casualties..

GRIM RECORD OF CHILD MURDER. Melbourne, August 31. Detectives state that many infants are murdered in and ground Melbourne every year. In not case out of a hundred are the culprits discovered. No clue is ever left, ihe last occasion, when a woman was arrested after strangling and abandoning a child, was in 1898. The fact that the child had been vaccinated enabled the detectives to trace the mother.