GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 24 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Asscclation-Copyrlsht.

RIVER QUAY COLLAPSES. (Rec. January 24, 0.5 a.m.), Paris, January 23. Floods undermined the quay at Nantes at tho mouth of the Loire, and it collapsed for a" distances. of -80 yards.' The damage amounts to .£20,000. Fifty persons narrowly espaped with their lives, N.S.W.-RAILWAY EARNINGS. ' '' Sydney, January 23. The railway earnings tor tho quarter increased by i 160,490. The tramway earnings also increased by .£46,700,' as coinpared with the last corresponding quar-' ter.' FATAL' GUN ACCIDENT. Sydney, January 23. 'A man named Duke,, who was found shot dead at. Obeion, 120 miles west of Sydney, carried a pea rifle in his swag. He was apparently -putting his swag down when the concussion exploded the cartridge. A BUSH MYSTERY. Melbourne, January 23. ■ The police investigation in connection with the recent discovery of a human leg in the bush at Carrum ' has proved fruitless. . RAILWAY COLLISION. Sydney, January 23. A runaway engine at the central station collided with a string of empty carriages, telescoping two and damaging others. A fireman was injured. SIR F. H. MAY: Hong-Kong, January 22. Sir F. H. May, tho new High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, . has sailed for Australia. - ; THE COAL TRADE. Sydney,-January 23.' Owing principally to the slackness of trade, the closing of several Newcastle collieries is contemplated. ' ILLNESS OF MR. LLOYD-GEORGE. , • London, January 22. Owing to a throat affection, Mr. Lloyd- ' George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, expects to be obliged. to return to tho South* of France. OBITUARY. New York, January 22. General Owen Summers, a veteran of '■tho American Civil War, who took part in the campaigu in the' Philippines, is dead. 'A MAD VISITOR. London, January 22. A madman visited Sir Thomas Lipton's residence, pretending to be a policeman, and flourished a razor. Sir Thomas Lipton condoled with the man on' his grievances, aud then secured a telephone and obtained assistance. STEVEDORING" DISPUTE. ':' Melbourne, January 23. The stevedoring trouble has been setfled. The men demanded an increase from Is. 3d. to Is. Cd. per hour. The employers have conceded Is. sd. Tho new agreement, will remain in force till November, 1913. VICTORIAN REVENUE INCREASE.' Molbourne, January 23. The railway revenue for the half-year increased by .£245,455 as compared with tho corresponding period of the previous year. - ■ ■

LATE SHIPPING. Newcastle, January 23. Arrived.—Aparima, from Wellington,