GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1750, 15 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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OBITUARY. j (Rec. May 15, 0.35 a.m.) \ London, May 11. i The death is announced of James ( Orroek, tho water-colour artist, • aged eighty-four. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR. London, May 11. Mr. J. R. Spencer addressed the Christian Endeavour Convention, at Bradford on the progress of movement in Australasia and India. DUCHESS OE CONNAUGT-fT. London, Slay 11. The Duchess of Con naught, who has been critically ill, continues to mako satisfactory progress. A RICH DISCOVERY. Hobart, May 14. ! A rich nickel lede has been discovered ; in tie Zeehan district. It lias teen proved to be 11 unites in c:-:tent, but the ore has only teen partially sample". Forty-seven simples yielded I to 11, per cent." of nickel, and 1 to (! per ccav. ot copper. ■ ANOTHER "WIRELESS" LINK"! Brisbane, May H. At Geraldton a windc-- station has brtn opened, forming anolhrr linl; in Iho Australian chain. A FATAL FIRE. Vancouver, May 13. At Stratford, Oivtarij. a fire, duo to lightning, destroyed th? Presbyterian Church. The burning belfry tell on the firemen, killing three. AMERICAN TARIFF. London, May 13. Latest indications at Washington are that tho Senate will accent d'D wnol and siiiiar schedules iu tlm Tariff Revision Hill, but amend the others—r.olably tliow dealing with metals. MAN RUNS AMOK. Berlin, Mnv 13. •\ man ran amok at Munich, killed. a policeman, and mortally shot Major Lc-winski, an attache ot the Prussian Legation. WHOLESALE THEFT. London, 'May 13. Thieves raided a furrier's store in tho city, and stole 'twenty thousand skins. BOARD OF TRADE BRANCH. \ Sydney, Slay 14. ■\ branch office of the British Board of Trade has been opened in Sydney. STANDING ALOOF. London, May 13. The Co-operative Congress at Aberdeen pa«ed a resolution refusing to aHiliato with tho Labour I'nrly. FRUIT INSPECTION. | London, May 13. The Commonwcnllh'.s representative in Switzerland has sccured a reduction ot the fruit inspection charge from hvo francs (4s. 2d.) a case to a franc (10d.). MILKING MTCHINE TRIAL. London, Hay 13. At the Agricultural Society's trial of milking machines the second prize was awarded to a machine exhibited by Hurtram, of Melbourne. AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLY. London, May 11.. The American visible wheat supply is climated at 7!),370 tons.

Surveyors, f.iwmillcrs. rnbl>i(prs—all who have 1° <1° owu vookm;,'—will liml Cnmi) (.'olVee a Iwi'.n. So easily made. S„ ~Li when it U The billy. linil"Camp," and, l> ll '-tv, made.—Ad\ t. More tha" mo .•inixuiils chielly a?Hhooked liy one iißfnl al; JJiulcwater Somerset, sailud for Canada last . month.