"GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1792, 3 July 1913, Page 7

"GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

!y j TclegTaph—Preea ABSociatioJt-Coppight ■ — 9 7- —•' i (ROYAL VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. ; (Eeo. July 8, 0.50 a.m.) : i , Melbourne July 2. Clio Federal Ministers have no inforhi itioru regarding the -, report that King k brge'is likely to visit the Dominions in 91 ft. i NEW CLYDE DOCKS, i London, July , 2. 1 'he Clyde Navigation Trust is seeking o ?ers to construct docks at Shieldhall, 0 cost a million and a half. LATE SHIPPING. Hobart, July 2. . Irrived—Arawa, from London; sails for J' ellington at noon to-jnorrow. Twenfy- ! •• ren passengers landed at Hobart. and 1 /:} are proceeding to New Zealand. ! BENDIGO MINERS OUT. Melbourne, July 1. 1 Jhe hundred and sixty unionist miners ,n the Bendigo district have ,• struck against the employment of non-unionists. Spr developments are threatened. , THE DEATH PENALTY. Fremantle, July 2. C. paries Spargo has been executed for tho [murder- at Broome, in May last, of Gilbert Jonesi fJi >ue3 was found shot dead in a. swamp, and 'Property belonging to him was iound in tl \o possession of Spargo, who had also draw li in Jones's name ,£2O from the Savings- Bank.] . . INDIAN RAILWAY DISASTER. Calcutta, July 1. Nineteen dead bodies and Hiirtcen mjured passengers, all natives, were recovered f fom the wrecked train which was precipi itated into a river ia the flardwari district). ' fTho \train with a hundred passengers, mostly ; in tho foremost carriages, fell into a Toaring torrent, the flood having destroyed a bridge. Seven coaches were embeddi in the mud, tho remainder of the cart tjages hanging in mid-air.T BOY IM. MIGRANTS FOR MELBOURNE. I London, July 1. ■ Tho ste femer Hike's Bay is taking two hundred poy farm labourers for Melbourne. FLkGSHIP AUSTRALIA. . London, July 1. In briilit tot weather, five hundred Australians vituted tho battle-cruiser Australia. The < officers entertained them 'at afternoon fefa. Rear-Adm.lral Patey entertained at luncheon Lord ;Emmott (Under-Secretary of State for thp Colonies), Sir George Reid (High Comn (issioner for Australia), the Hon. Thoma S Mackenzie (High Commissioner for NeVv Zealand), the Agents-Gen-eral for the Australian States, Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson, Admiral Heath (Admiral Slip trintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard), ai\d Rear-Admiral Tupper (Rear-Admiral of the Home Fleet). JEWEL RUBBER SENTENCED. London, July 1. Hans Porter, on American tailor, who was arrested in April last on a charge of stealing ,£50,0 DO worth of jewellery belonging to Senor Dernier, ex-Mexican Minister of France, o\t Neuilly in April, 1912, has been found guilty at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to', eighteen months' imprisonment. BIG STRIDE AVERTED. '. New York, July 1. At Charleston, \Mest Virginia, a strike of twenty thousand 'miners nas been averted, terms having t>een arranged. Bristol show Overseas display. London, Julv 1. There is an attract\vo overseas display at the Bristol Show. New Zealand is not represented. , LONDON MARKETS. (Reo. July 1 2, 111.50 p.m.) London, July 2. Wheat ia neglected. ' Copper.—On spot, JEJC3 109. j three months, ,£64; electrolytic, JC6B ss. Supplies, 33,855 tons; stocks, 58,142 tons; afloat, 4700 tous; European visible supply, 38,190 tons. , Tin.—On spot, .£l9O 55.; throe months, £191, Stocks, 12,903 tons; afloat, 4747 tons; spot, 1604 tons; deliveries, 3050 tons. Pig iron—.£2 15s. Bd. per ton. Lead.—£l9 12s. 6d. per ton. • Tallow—Stocks,. 5584 tons; imports, 1)914 tons; deliveries, 3067 tons. WOOL SALES. London, July 2. Wool—At tho sales, 13,260 bales, including 7292 bales from New Zealand, were offered, tho bulk being crossbreds. There was a good attendance, and prices were well maintained for all sorts. New Zealand faulty 6coureds weat occasionally in buyers' 'favour.