CABLE NEWS

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. WASHINGTON, yesterday. The Chairman of the House of Representatives' Committee on military affairs introduced a Bill to raise the volunteer army to two millions in times of emergency. The casualties on the American football field this season -total 18 killed and 135 seriously injured. In a, six days' cycle race at Madison Sqiiare Gardens thfe American, team were the winners, covering- 2737 | miles.'- Walker and'Paliner (Aristra-. lians) competed. The ; former fell off his cycle on the fourth night while asleep, .and broke his collar-bone. • •• LONDON, yesterday, '• Peasants assassinated- Panetza :Sarafoff's murder, who - tv-as terrorising; the Zoliaehovo district. ■■■■■■■'• . ; Mr Devlin, at QueenstoNyny stated that -Irish in America had guaranteed' £20,000 for the Irish Parliamentary fund. i - Cholera has revived acutely hi St. Petersburg. The steamer Ashton, from Antwerp, is in quarantine at Grimsby. Five Russian passengers died witftin ten minutes of each other. A hotel at Aberavon ivas burnt, and \Mr Arthur Roberts, the comedian, was badly injured. _ Sir S; T. Stevans, Solicitor-General, at Nantymoel, prophesised that Mr Lloyd-George would adopt the principle of a graduating income tax. Personally, he hoped it would be inipossible to increase the estate duties on millions devolving at the death of their owner. / The Standard's Berlin correspondent re-ports that Britain has agreed to recognise the German load-line as being equally effective with the British. .. / BERLIN, yesterday. The fourth German Dreadnought '; has been launched -;at Kiel. ''■/' NEW YORK, yesterday. American, -newspaper enquiries among manufacturers relative to the reform of the tariff indicate that woollon clothing manufacturers" do not object to free wool, but are unwilling to allow the customer too large a reduction on manufactured goods as a set-off against the reduced price of wool. The boot and shoe j manufacturers .. favor the repeal of i :-tho duty on hides, and the reduction of the duty on leather, but wish to: retain- the present tariff *on ; boots and slioes. .-•• \ ■■■ '.'■ ' '.-■• ■: SYDNEY, yesterday.; In reply to.a- question in the Assembly, Mr Wade- said it /was hardly^ necessary to say there was no founda- i tion in th© statement- -that the State i Government was run by Freemasons, i The.Stanmore jam. factory 1 , was completely destroyed by fire, damage to the value of £5000 being done,. , PERTH, yesterday. Until communication has been restored it ; is; impossible to gauge the extent of the pearling disaster. It is believed that three whites and a dozen colored men were drowned. Thirtyfour luggers are unaccounted for.'