LATE CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 287, 3 December 1912, Page 7

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[press association.] SHORT SHRIFT, j NEW YORK, Dec. 1. A negro at Cordele, in Georgia, shot two white women, but not fatally. He assaulted one. When Arrested and about to be tried, the mob assembled in the Court-house, overpowered the guards, dragged the negro screaming outside, and hanged him to a tree. BOXING. SYDNEY, Dec. 2. Frank O'Grady was awarded the decision in a 20 rounds fight with Jean Poesy, the French boxer. A CHAMPION CYCLIST. • ■.."■. SYDNEY, Dee. 1. Jenkins, the professional champion cyclist of England, has arrived to participate in a six.days' race. AN EXCI-TING RIFE. MELBOURNE, Nov. 30. A fire in the Post Office block in Bourke Street caused much excitement yesterday. It originated through an explosion in the rooms of Williams's Film Company, and spread to Sutton Brothers music warehouse, the Albion Hotel dining rooms, and a dressmaker's rooms where a large' number of girls were working. The police experienced difficulty in getting the girls out, owing to their panic. / Several men who jumped {from the windows were injured. A \man named Harry Martin fractured his skull, The outbreak was subdued in an hour. The chief loser was the Williams Company, a quantity of valuable films and photographic material being destroyed. An operator belonging to the firm secured a picture of the fire. TUBERCULAR COWS. SYDNEY, Dec. 1. A number of milking cows at the Rookwood State Hospital and Asylum liave bee|i discovered to be suffering from tuberculosis; Twelve hundred patients are contained in the, 'establishment. NORFOLK ISLAND. SYDNEY, Dec. 1. Negotiations are proceeding with the Imperial authorities regarding a proposal that Norfolk Island should "be taken under the jurisdiction'of the Commonwealth. No finality has yet been reached. NORTH LYELL MINEi HOBART, Dec. 1. The 500 feet level at the North 7 Lyell Mine has been' explored, and a body, to be that of Park, was discovered. There was no'sign of fire at the.v4oo feet and 500 feet levels, but the temperature was higher than it should have been, indicating apparently that the fire is still unextinguished. Owing to'the fumes no j attempt was made to remove the body in the jammed cage. NEW ZEALAND ROWLING. SYDNEY, Dec. 2. The Australian Bowling Council intends to make an effort to fulfil' a long-standing promise to send a team to iKTew Zealand during the present season. The Herald remarks that bowling probably reaches a higher plane of excellence* in New Zealand than' anywhere else in the world.