MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13908, 6 December 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press Association—By Electrio -elegr-> ph—C <-r yright. Lasker has won six games in the chess championship and drawn three. Bandits held up the railway station at Devil's Slide, Utah. They murdered the agent, robbed the safe, and escaped. Three convicts killed six warders at Kharkoff, Russia, but were all shot while scaling a wall.

A serious outbreak of pleuro-pneu-monia has occurred amongst two big mobs of cattle at Albury.

The number of boats lost in the Broome hurricane totals 101. Nineteen are still missing.

His Majesty's ship Fantome has conducted a fruitless search for the rock on which the Pericles struck.

A Chamber of British Manufacturers, on similar lines to thc Australian institution, is being organised in London.

Hundreds of pounds worth of jewels and heirlooms have disappeared from the Duke of Argyll's apartments in Kensington Palace.

An express train dashed into a motor car near Le Mans (France), killing Countess Denicolay, her son, and the chauffeur.

An engineer named Cammarota and a soldier namer Cantellance were killed while biolariing at Centovalli, in Italy. Tlie machine dashed to the ground, owing to the collapse of the motor.

The bodies of two men have been found on the beach near Perth. They have been identified, and it is supposed that death was due to poisoning. It was evident that they had been dead for months.

The amalgamated engineers on the North-East Coast of England havo accepted an advance of a shilling, and 2_ per cent, when tho boilermakers' lock-out terminates, and the same amount six months later. The agreement is binding for five years.

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