MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Dr Mawson’s ship, the Aurora, has started from London, and will call at Cardiff for coal. Three miners working in the 600 ft level of the Golden Fleece mine at Wyalong (New South Wales) broke into old workings, and a rush of water swept them away. A man named Burton was drowned, and the others had a miraculous escape. Lieutenant Walkin Vickerton leaves England for China with an aeroplane which was satisfactorily tested at Brooklands. The ex-Shah of Persia’s Turcoman troops pillaged the town of Shah rad. Feeling against Russia is becoming intensified. In view of the by-elections, the Caucus will support an addition to the Conversion Act Repeal Bill, providing for safeguarding all existing rights of conversion. It was originally intended to repeal the rights secured* by settlors under Mr Wade’s Act.

Eight persons were killed and 60 injured in a collision between a negro excursion train and a freight train at Charlotte (North Carolina). The British Government have purchased M. Beaumont’s monoplane with which he won the ‘Daily Mail’s’ £IO,OOO prize. It was MrT. Healy.not Mr Sheehy, who attacked the reputation of Mr Lundon in the House of Commons.

A New- York message advises that an excursion train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad was derailed, and a Pullman car rolled down the embankment. Fifty persons were injured. One woman may die. The Midland Railway Company’s passenger steamer Antrim, during a fog at Belfast, collided with a schooner, which was cut in two, and sank in 10 seconds. The Antrim made a long but resultless search. It is believed that tho crow of seven were drowned.