CONDENSED CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12925, 2 August 1905, Page 5

CONDENSED CABLES.

The Kaiser has arrived at Copenhagen. A Commission of Inquiry regarding th» fatal accident to Sergeant Fallon at the Randwick (Sydney) 'Butts shows tha? he was killed by the. discharge of a loadecj rifle lyingi,on -tfaa mound, which a comrade accidentally kicked. The Scottish Churches Bill was read a second time in the, House of Lords. ' The N'.S;W. Meteorologist, in forecasting bad weather in the Tasman Sea, expressed regret that the efficiency of sxich tests 1 was discounted^by the aibsence of meteorological data from New Zealand, | which was suspended twelve months ago. Owing to the bursting of several military rifles in- various Australian States, which it is alleged was due . to bullets being inserted in the cartridges wrong end first, the Defence' Minister has remittee? the malfcor to a special Board' of Inquiry. Advice has been received from German West Africa that owing to an affray on the Cameroons frontier, in which German troops killed five Senegalese soldiers and captured foun, ;the Governor of the Cameroofas has ato send a Commission to delimit the frontier. : The annual report of the New South 'Wales Railway Commissioners' shows an increase of £247,000 in the revenue, (which is the largest on record. The [decrease ,< in the expenditure was £66,000. There was a slight loss on |the tramways. I Mass Greig has been admitted to the "Bar in Melbourne. She is the first ilady lawyer in Australia. ' The Premier of Westralia" moved on 'Tuesday that the House approves of ithe purchase of the Midland Railway i 'for a million and a' half. I