MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6870, 14 July 1909, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LATE MARQUIS OF HXPON. LONDON, July 1)2. King Edward has ;offered Earl dd Grey, son and heir of the late Marquis of .Bipon, his sympathy on the occasion of the death of his “excellent and distinguished father.” AN ALLEGED HOAX. LONDON, July 12. . The ’“Daily Chronicle" learns, on the authority or the so-called Dr Boyd himself, that the Story told last_ week of his crossing the , Irish .Sea in, an* airship in May last was a fabrication, and that he hoaxed the “Daily Nows." His motive in doing so is not stated. STRIKE AT BROKEN HILL. STDXET, July IS. A municipal strike occurred At Broken Hill through the action of the Mayor, Alderman Long, in displacing eight single men to make way for a similar number of unemployed married men. ' * . ■ . The Municipal Employees’ Association ordered i strike, with the result that all the civic services, including the electric lighting,' were sUppetided. The Mayor then reversed his action, and work was resumed.

MISSING BANK TELLER CAUGHT. MELBOURNE, July 13. James Martin . Fitzsimmons, the bank teller who recently left Melbourne on a holiday, and whose cc-sn ac'oount was alleged to_ be deficient,, has been arrested at Brisbane. A QUEENSLAND MERGER. BRISBANE, July 13As tf result of a. feud. Michael Duffy shot his half-brother,- Thomas Stack, a hotelkeeper, dead at Croydon. CHOLERA EPIDEMIC SPREADING, (Received July 13, 10 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 13. There is a serious spreading of the cholera epidemic throughput many of the Russian provinces. ACCIDENT ON A WARSHfP. (Received July 14, 0.5 a.m.) , LONDON, July 18. A boiler on the United States St'tiiiSr North Carolina, at NapISS, biirst, killing an officer named Stewart, EXTRA D ITIOh' ORA NTED. (Received July'l4; 0.5 a.tn.j SYDNEY, July 13, Th 6 .extradition of a map named HoivSra Stanton ,Walters ‘ has been ordered, on a charge of stealing two horses at Pukekohc, New Zealand.