GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph-Prow Association-Copyright » . NEW SOUTH WALES CENSURE DEBATE. Sydney, August 2. The censuro debate in tho Legislative Assembly has been adjourned until Tuesday. UNION SECRETARY PINED. Sydney, lugust 2, The Arbitration Court has fined' tho secictary of tho Plasterers' Association iis on a chnrgo of instigating a strike, BRAZILIAN DISASTER. Rio do Janeiro, August 2, Ten persons were killed and fifty injured in Wednesday's oollision on the Central Brazilian Railway.

BELFAST QUIET. London, August 2, Tho disturbances at tho Belfast shipyards . havo ceased, and conditions nro normal. THE PRINCE OF WALES. _, _ London, August 1. Tho Pnnco of Wales has returned to London, having completed his sojourn in France. Tho French newspapers warmly appreciato his simplicity and charm.

TRAINMAN MURDERED. „ „, . London, August 1. 1 Koy Blair, a train brakemoji, was shot dead at' Calgary by a tratnp who was • stealing a rido on. tho train. Tho mur--1 derer escaped. VALUABLE LIVE STOCK. • m , London, August 1, Tho New South Wales Government has 1 purchased the following Clvdesdnlo stal. lionsi—Clandnlc, for £450j Robin Adair, £500 i Royal Warden, JM2O; and three marcs in foal, at .£l3O each, for (ho Government farms. The stock is to be shipped in tht Dorset. DUTCH TARIFF BILL. The Hague, August 1. The Government has amended (hoTariff Bill, which enables reprisals to bo taken against foreign nations unduly raising duties on Dutch products. RIOT IN NEW YORK. Now York, August'l. A riot was caused in tho city by fur- • riers' employees who were on strike. Tho police were escorting a number'of'strike, breakers when a woman named Anna Tcchusky sprang upon n strike-breaker. A constable- beat Tcchusky senseless, and then tho riot broke out. Seven strikers were arrested. ADVENTISTS' CHALLENGE. Ottawa, August 1. At a seventh Day Advcntists' Conference at Kingston, Ontario, Elder Johnson offered .£2OO, and another member a similar amount, to anyono producing satisfactory evidence of Divine authority for keeping the first day of tho week as tho Christian Sabbath. WRECK OP THE BELLINGER, Sydney, August 2. The Marino Court of Inquiry exonerated tho officers in connection with (ho wreck of tho steamer Bellinger on April 27. NEW SOUTH "WALES LAMBING. Sydney, August 2, Tho . official estimate of tho autumn and winter lambings shows the severity of. tho lata drought, Tho percentage of marketings was only 37, compared with 72 last year, and tho numbor marketable was 4,096,000, compared with 8,830,000. LABOUR AND DEFENCE. Sydney, August. 2. The Labour Council rejected by G3 voto9 to 52 a motion that compulsory training should bo performed during tho employers' time. FLEET INVITATION. Hobart, August 2. The City Council has agreed to support tho invitation to the British battleship squadron to visit Australia. DAYLESFORD STRIKE ENDS. Melbourne, August 2. Tho miners' strike at Daylesford has ended, the miners' demands having been conceded.