MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Speaking at a meeting at Belleville, Sir Mackenzie Bowell said that Canada bad rejected Reciprocity because she was doing so well financially. He predicted that the Dominion would soon be equal to the United States in wealth and population, and then all possible talk of annexation would disappear. A man named Wood was electrocuted at Pyrmont (Sydney) yesterday. While standing on a damp floor ho handled a live electric lamp. He screamed, and fell dead. Apparently a short circuit was established through his body. A youth named .Morgan, who was bathing in Lane Cove River (Sydney) yesterday, was seized by a shark. ilis two companions beat the monster oIF, but Morgan, who \\;>.s fearfully mangled, died. The P. and 0. Company's new steamer, the Beltana, has been launched on the Clyde. £IO,OOO worth of gems that were stolen from an efligy of the Virgin at Czenstochowa (Russia) in 1910 have been discovered in Adler's jeweller's shop at Lublin. The German Minister of the Colonies (Dr Soil") has returned to Berlin. His visit to London was private, and he did not pay any official calls.
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Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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189MISCELLANEOUS CABLES. Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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