MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press Association—By Electric Telegr: > j b- Copyright. The death is announced of Jem Mace, the famous pugilist, of senile decay. In the New South Wales Assembly Mr Meagher was elected Chairman of Committees. « In the chess championship in Berlin Lasker has won five games and three games have been drawn. Forty of the leading steel producers of the" United States refuse to cut prices below the presont standard The British steamer Barranca reports at Kingston sighting an unknown wreck ashore on Turks Island. There was no sign of lifo on board. Major General Godley, the new Commandant of Now Zealand forces, while in Melbourne, paid a formal call on General Hoaa. The National Mining Bank of Salt Lake City was held up at noon on Wednesday, and £25,000 was taken. The robbers escaped. A court martial in Paris sentenced a soldier to 20 months' imprisonment for damaging telegraphs which he was ordered to guard during tho railway strike. Another rush has set in in West Australia, this time to the Gimlet country, near Orabauda. It is stated that assays showing up to thirty ounces to the ton have been made. During the voyage of the barque Lady Elizabeth from Callao to Newcastle, two sailors, who were suffering from malarial fever, jumped overboard, and disappeared. The barquentine Gratitude colhded with a collier at Gravesend. the barquentine sank in two minutes, and eight out of ten of the crew were drowned. Tho Toronto correspondent of "Tho Times" states that it is reported that the cable companies and post office authorities are discussing a proposal that five letters shall be regarded as one word in the proposed deferred Pacific cable messages. He adds that if this is true, the proposition becomes farcical. A severe thunderstorm was experienced in the city and suburbs of Sydney yesterday. Some* of the low-lying districts were flooded, and considerable damage was done. Several trams were derailed through debris collecting on the lines. A building collapsed at Ryde, and a boy was killed.

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