GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 263, 30 July 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

—■ —« — (or TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPTRiaiIT.I MR CHAMBERLAIN. (Rec. July 29, 10.15 p.m.) . London, July 29. Mr. Chamberlain has returned tn Loiiucn from tho Snath.'of Franco. Ho is looking better, but still has difficulty in walking, and was assisted into his carriage. SAN FRANCISCO GRAFT. • , " San Franoisco, July 28. Abraham Ruef 1 . has been liberated on £300,000 bail, in connection with the, San Francisco' corruption cases. VESSEL FOUNDERS—TWELVE PERSONS DROWNED. London, July 28. ■ The wooden twin screw stoamor Ying" King, 768 tons, registered at Hong-Kong, has foundered. Of the passengers and crew, twelvo were drowned, and 300 aro missing. DESTROYER ASHORE. London, July 28. Tho British twin screw destroyer Whiting (300 tons, 5900 i, h. p,, 30,2 knots, built in 1596) is ashore. . DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON. . Hong-Kong, July 28. A typhoon at Hong-Kong caused much damage to shipping. It lasted two hours. SIEVIER AND JOEL. London, July 28. Tho trial of R. S. Sievicr for the alleged using of threats to publish defamatory matter. regarding j. B. Joel, with a view to extorting has commenced beforo tho. Lord Chief Justice, Lord Alvcrstono, MARRIAGE IN HASTE. • • " -Melbourne, July 29. A Bill has been introduced in tho Legislative Council to amend tho Victorian Marriago Act in tho direction of compelling threo days' notice to bo given beforo a marriage can bo celebrated. It is aimed at clandestine and hasty marriages at matrimonial agencies. RAILWAY COLLISION. Sydney, July 29. In connection with tho railway collision at Murrurundi on Good Friday—when tho Brisbane mail train ran into part of tho Glen Ilines train, twenty passengers being injured, two seriously—two railway officials, who were committed for trial on charge* o£ pcgligcuce, have been acquitted,