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CABLE SUMMARY.
.» LONDON, Wednesday.
Doctors attending Airs, ?j/annuurst state
I that her condition is critical.
I Thc missing Bank of , England bonds
have been found.
I The battleship to bft, presented to the
Imperial navy by thc Malay States will
I bc laid down in June. ,v'
T/he. death is announced of Herbert
¡Druce, who was prominent ? -iri. ? the Druce
case. I' ,
I Au elaborately* decorated house in Sus-
sex was fired'.by suffragettes.' The dam-
age is estimatejl at £1.2,000.
i Strikers and police had a fierce re-
volver battle in New York State. One
striker was killed, ,and a score wounded,
i.- It is /understood that.those 'Senators
who would break the measure down are
hard at work on. thc President's Tariff
Bill. '. ¡
A suit is being heard against the.
Standard Oil Company to recover
] oo,oóo,ooóV dollars for alleged violation
ci the Texas anti-trust- law. . - ?
'Boilermakers' rivettcrs at thc: feder-
ated shipyards of Great Britain-have de-
cided not to work overtime.if wages are
not advanced. Employers have refused.
. 'f he Royal Commission's report on the
l ondon . University is that it js funda-
mentally defective and incapable of de-
veloping along' the lines on which - it is
at present conducted.
Sir Heuikcr Heaton telegraphed to the
meeting of South.Scotland Chamber of
Commerce that he and/his friends offered
the . Government a bank guarantee
against any loss, entailed under universal
penny postage.
Mr. Keir, Hardie suggested in Parlia-
ment that as the gift of battleships has
become a matter of party,controversy in
Canada, thc. Government should, suggest
to Mr. Borden not to proceed with the
gift.. Mr. Asquith refused entirely, to
interfere, and said "thc .matter was . for
the Canadians' decision.
The Hon. A. H. Peaker South Aus-
tralian Premier, the Hon.-L. O'loughlin
jäpeaker of the South .Australian vl-louse
of Assembly, and. Major A. E. M.-~Nor
ton, South Australian commercial repre-
sentative in Great Britain, have spent
two days in Hull, inspecting the dock's.
\ A verdict of death from natural causey
has been returned hy' the jury which en-
quired into the death of an American
dancer named Frances Schnitz, .whose
stage1 name was 'Frances Leslie,, who was
found dead aboard thc Oceanic entering
Southampton in March. The parents
suspected: foul play, and requested an
inquest, winch was adjourned.
The Archbishop of Sydney, addressing
the Diocesan I<ay Readers' Association
at Manchester, said., there /was a band of
very loyal Churchmen in ¡New South
AVales devoting . their leisure to the
church, there being even greater need for
lay readers than in England, owing (to
the fewness of the cdergy. It would bc
impossible to run the diocese, without thc
Sydney laymen, many, of whom travelled
loo miles to help the clergy;
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