GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1539, 7 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tolesraoh-Press ABSociation-CosyrloM $ STOLEN JEWELS RECOVERED. : Rome, September G. Tho .£9OOO worth of jewollei'y and coins stolen, from the villa of Count "Sormani at Milan, recently has been recovered, anil a family named Brambilla arrested at Milan. READMISSION OF A LAWYER. Sydney, September G. Mr. Donaldson has given notice of his intention to introduce a Bill to provide for the rcadmission of Mr. 11. Meagher as a solicitor, and also to amend Ilia Legal Practitioners' Act. TUBERCULOSIS DEATH-RATE. ' Adelaide, September 6. Tho death-rate from consumption in South Australia last year was G8 per 100,000, the lowest for twenty-seven years. PACIFIC CABLE. Sydney, September 7. Tho manager of the Pacific Cable Board states that lie cxppcts to start tho laying of tho Sydney-Auckland cable early in December. . ' JAPANEST RICE CROP. . . Tokio, September G. It is estimated that the rice crop will bo 17,000,000 bushels greater than in 1911. QUEENSLAND LABOUR LEADER. Brisbane, September G. Mr. J. T. Ryan, member for Barcoo. has been elected leader of tile Labour party m place of Mr. Bowman. i BURNED TO DEATH. St. Petersburg, September G. bevonteea labourers wcro burned to death in a barn. PENALTY FOR THREATS. ■ ' London, September 5. John Marston, a seamen's leader! was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Cardiff for threatening to throw a seaman into tho dock if he signed on to a certain ship. , LABOUR. M.P.'S ESTATE. London, September 5. The estate of the late Mr. Enoch Edwards, who was Labour M.P. for llanley for six years-, has been sworn at WOOD SLIDES DOWN A fIILL. London, September 5. Bassett Wood, in Glamorganshire, four hundred yards in extent, is moving bodily down a steep hillside. ENGLISH ORDER FOR AMERICA. London, Soptcmbcr 5. By an overwhelming majority, tho Manchester City Council has placed a contract for steel rails in America. Tho American tender was .£10,231, compared with a Sheffield tender of .£11,038. WOOLLEN MILLS BURNED DOWN. London, September 5. The Cambrian Woollen Mills at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, have boon destroyed by fire. Tho damage is estimated at..£80,000. A LUCKY MILLIONAIRE. Berlin, September !). Herr Nordliausen, who recently died worth i 11,750,000, was billeted during Army manoeuvres in 1862 with a farmer named llewuld. Ho married (he latter's daughter, who inherited Hownld's farm, which became enormously enhanced in value, and is now the centre of a fashionable residential Berlin suburb. SOLDIERS DROWNED. The Hague, September 5. A rnft collap.=ed near Utrecht, and six soldiers were drowned. AVIATOR'S NASTY FALL. ' Sydney, September (!. Mr. Hart, the aviator, who fell from the height of 200 ft, through the engine of his monoplane going wrong, sustained a fracture of l.ho skull, in addition to other injuries. He luis recovered eoiwiouMi<,.'N-, and the doctors are hopeful.