GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 293, 4 September 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) BRITISH INCOME TAS. London, September 3. Tbo British income tax returns for 190G-7 show gross incomes of £943,000,000. Tho tax was paid on £640,000,000. There were twonty incomes of over £50,000 a year, and 241 of between £10,000 and £50,000. AMERICAN POLITICS. New York, September 3. Tho Republicans won the Vermont Stato election by a majority of 28,000. LASKEII AND TARRASqH. London, September 2. At chess Lasker won four games and Tarrasob ono garao. FATAL ACCIDENT. (Rec. September 3, 11.25 p.m.) Melbourne, September 3. A sailor belonging to the battleship Now Jersey was killed by a locomotive at the Flinders Street Station. SYDNEY LEADS THE-WORLD. Sydney,- September 3. ,The vital statistics for 1907 show that Sydney, with a death rate of 11 per thousand, leads the world in the lowness of mortality figures. - .

FEDERAL REVENUE. ' Molbourne, September 3. Tho Fedoral Treasurer (Sir William Lyne) estimates tho revenuo for the current year at £500,000 below that of last year. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Kalgoorlie, September 3. Letters found on Douglas's body showed that ho and Ella Wayth had been living together. Tho crime was premeditated, there being evidence of the couple having sat together on tbo floor, Douglas shooting' tho girl through the head and then himself. MURDER OF A FARMER.. Perth, September 3. Oki, tho Japanese, who murdered a farmer named Shaw, told the polico that Shaw had his money, and Oki feared he was going to leavo him. He (Oki) get mad, and shot Shaw. EIGHT HOURS DAY. Adelaide, September 3. Tho Eight Hours Day celebrations wero spoilt by incessant rain. BASEBALL. . Melbourne, September 3.' In a baseball match, America defoatod Victoria by 6 to 5.