GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Teloer&Dh— Press Association—OoDjrlKbl HEAT WAVE IN NEW SOUTH WALES Sydney, September 14. The Stato is experiencing another heat wave. Many stations have registered temperatures in the vicinity of lOOdeg. Falir. CONTEMPT OF COUHT. Melbourne, September 14. ' The publisher of the "Ago" has been fined .£2OO and taxed with costs for eontempt' of Court in connection with the chargo of murder against Dr. Peacock. MERCHANTMEN AND CRUISERS. Melbourne, September _14. Tho Federal Government considers it inadvisable to "üblish information concerning the number of foreign vessels trading to Australia, convertible into cruisers. CAPTAIN COOK RELICS. London, September 13. Two leaves from Captain Cook's autograph journal describing his discovery of Australia were sold at auction for £451. Tho purchaser is offering them to tho Commonwealth and New South Wales Government for £500. RAIN IN ENGLAND. London, September 13. Heavy rains have fallen at Bradford and in North Wales, and lighter rains in tho South of England. AN ELDERLY BRIDEGROOM. London, September 13. Lord.Suffield, who is eighty-ono years of age, was married to Mrs. Rich, widow of an army officer, in Paris. Lord Suffield's first wife, a Miss Baring of the famous banking family, whom ho married in 1851, died.in February last.l THE NECKLACE FRAUD. London, Soptembcr 11. Mrs. Cameron, wife of Lieutenant C. Ayliner Cameron, of the 57th Battery of tho Royal Field Artillery, who with her husband was sentenced recently to threo years' imprisonment -in connection with the Edinburgh necklace fraud, has been released on license, her health rendering her unfit for further detention. NEW SHAW-SAVILL LINER. London, September 13. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's new steamer Waimana has been launched at Belfast. QUEENSLAND INCOME TAX. London, September 13. The Sheffield, lluddersfiekl, and several other Chambers of Commerce have passed resolutions protesting against Queensland income tax on British companies. FIRE IN BRUSSELS. A timber warehouse and liino dwellings at Campinc Dock, Antwerp, were burned. The loss is set down at seven million frfincs. A QUEENSLAND PIONEER, Brisbane, September 14. Mr. James Rutherford, an Australian pioneer and principal of tho firm of Cobb and Company, is dead. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Melbourne, September 14. Tho next Federal Estimates will include a largo sum for wireless telegraphy. FEDERAL POLITICS. Melbourne, September 14. Tho debate in the Federal Houso on tho Address-in-lieply is not' yet finished. FUNDS FOR DR. MAWSON. Melbourne, September 14. Mr. Fisher, the. Prime Minister, has announced that tho Government had decided to recommend a grant of £5000 for tho Mawson expedition to Antarctics. VICTORIAN PROSPERITY. Melbourne, September 13. For tho year ended June 30, the deposits in the Victorian Savings Banks amounted to £17,274,424, an average of ,£'29 os. 9d. per depositor, against £15,417,888 and £27 10s. in tho previous year. AUSTRALIAN-MADE GOODS. Sydney, September 13. The Minister for Works (Mr. Griffith) lias promised to, us far as possible, give effect to the request of a deputation from tho Chamber of Manufacturers that preference should be accorded by his Department to Australian-made goods.