GENERAL CABLEGRAMS. By Telegraph—Press. Association—Copyright.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1706, 25 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS. By Telegraph—Press. Association—Copyright.

M!VEA-LANGFORD FIGHT, (Rec. March 24, 11.50. p.m.) • ' Brisbane,' March 24. . The twenty-ronnd contest between M'Vea and Langford was drawn, M' : Vca took tho bulk of. tho punishment. ' HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS. Sydney, March 24. The it-cord' Easter traffic was responsible for two tram accidents. One tramcar collided with a buggy-arid killed a man and injured two children, while a race-tram collided- ivith another: trap and several persons w*re'injured. i , AN EXPENSIVE STRIKE. ' London, 'March 24. Tho North-Eastern Railway ha scollected -.£IO,OOO in'fines imposed on strikers, in connection with the stopping, on account of tho (fismissal'of the engine-driver KnOx, oira charge of drunkenness, subsequently discovered to bo unfounded. The strikers wero'finikl six days' pay. BUCKET-SHOP FRAUDS. Brlin, March-,24.' • A man named Rattler has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined ,£l5O for bucket-shop frauds.

'STOLEN JEWELS. , ' . ' Berlin, March, 24. - ' Two men mid a woman'havo been arrested on a charge o{ stealing valued at ,£0250 fom a Russian lady, whom they , had induced to' leave her handbag in their charge while she visited a • kinematograph show'. , r ■ NEW' ZEALANDER FOR -THE ARCTIC. London, March 23. Dr. Jenness, anthropologist, 'at'present in New Zealand,; joins -Sir. Stcfalisson's Canadian 'Arctic expedition. [Tile object of tho Stefanssoii expedition 1 is, to settle the; limits' of the Parry Archipelago. It will' bo equipped■ for ? three years.] ' •' .TRANS ITLANTICWIRELESS.' Washington,' March 23. Wireless' signals have been received from'the EilTel Tower. > MINING ; DISASTER, •- _ , Brussels, March 23. Fourteen miners were killed owing to a cage breaking away in a mine at'Mens. CHINESE EX-MINISTER'S END. ; Shanghai,' March 23. Sung, tho ex-Minister •of ' Education, -who was shot .;at the' railway .'station at Peking, has died. 'The-skot was intended for' General Using.' SYDNEY 'MURDER CHARGE. , ; Sydney,. March 24. Another man," named Charles Nicoll, has been-arrested on-a charge of being concerned in the murder of the boxer "Snowy" Pulton during a street riot in December last'. ECLIPSE OF THE MOON. , Sydney, March .21. During' the lunar eclipse all phases -vera, splendidly observed.