MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14407, 15 July 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

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Tho French Senate has passed tho Moroccan Protectorate Bill. In the shado the temperature in Sydney on Friday was 68 degrees, the highest July reading since 1908. An explosion of flour dust wrecked a mill at Magdeburg, says a cablo from Berlin. Four people were killed and teii injured.

Hahso, a messenger employed by the American Express Company in Berlin, has confessed to' a charge that he absconded with £5000 in May last. Tho police havo recovered the money.

Mr Joseph Edward Nathan, formerly of Wellington, who died it Home, left nn estate of £100,635. Ho bequeathed £2-50 to Jewish charities in New Zealand.

Mr McKonna (states a message from London) is appointing an expert committee to enquire into the means of' preventing spontaneous combustion in mines.

An Australian choir of 120 voices will-visit England in 1913,. arriving in June. Mr Stanley Hobson, of "the Toowoomba Philharmonic Society, has been appointed conductor.

Tho revenue for tho year in West Australia was £399,667. an increase of £116,234 on the previous year. The Commonwealth contribution was £638,527, an increase of £63,930. There is a deficit cf £121,111.