GUNNERY INVENTION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 505, 12 May 1909, Page 7

GUNNERY INVENTION.

REMARKABLE SUCCESS OP SCOTT'S INVENTION. Ini TELiouirn-iMtKss association— copimont.) \ (Rcc. May 12, 1.10 a.m.), ,« ,„, , London, May 11. Referring to Rear-Admirnl Sir Percy Scott's invention for tho electrical.control, of gune—which aims at training a group of guns'in any direction without the aid of gunlayers—"Tho Times" and tho "Telegraph" state that tho test of the apparatus showed hits 50 per cent, in excess of tho hits in ordinary battlo practice fin .the course of a recent speech, ViceAdmiral Sir Percy Scott declared that thovalup of .fleets depends more on hitting pow«r than on numbers.] GENERAL CABLE NEWS. (BY TEIiEOIUPII—r-BESS ASSOCUTION-^COryniQET.) » • HOUSE OF COMMONS GALLERIES. (Rec. May 11, 11.20 p.m.) London, May 11. Tho strangers' and ladies' galleries in tho House of Oommpns, which wero closed owing to'a snffragotto disturbance, havo bcen_ reopened. The ladies' gallery is restricted to the'use of relatives of membors. •VICTORIAN LOAN TWICE COVERED. Loniion, May 11. The Victorian £1,500,000 3J per cent, loan, issued at !)S, was tw'ico covered. Tho list closed a day earlier than was advertised, and the loan is quoted at ono quartor premium. ' THE BANEfIFRAUDS CASE. London. May 10. Bernard Roberts, alias Windetl, mho was arrested in Madrid, and afterwards extradited, on a charge of robbery from the London and South-Western Bank, has been brought up at Bow Street Polico Court and remanded. EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR PERSONS. Rome, May 10. An explosion destroyed a factory at Sant Ensobio, at Genoa. Four persons wero killed, and twenty injured. INTER-STATE TRADE AND HARBOUR charges: Melbourne, May 11. Tho Melbourne Harbour Trust has drawn up a fresh scalo of charges, with the idea of protecting local manufacturers against interstate competitors. The'ro , is an increase of from Is. to 3s. per ton. Melbourne"™! service. Melbourne, May 11. Tho Victorian Government has accepted Mr. Sleigh's tender, at £6000 per annum, for a fortnightly shipping sorvico between Melbourne and Fiji. [The service te to be fortnightly between Melbourne' and Fiji, Victoria payinpjCUOO of tho .£6OOO annual subsidy, and the Fiji Government paying the balance, .£4300.] A CENTENARIAN DEAD. Melbourne, May 11. Mrs. Neato ,hos died at Richmond, Victoria, aged 100 years. FATAL .ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN. Sydnoy, May 11. The Rov. Mr. Allan, a Presbyterian minister, was kill6d while'driving to church at Bilambil. His horse bolted," and threw him from tho buggy. A WOMAN BRUTALLY MURDERED. Melbourne, May 11. A woman named Margaret Gallsicher, oped 76,. ; has been brutally murdered'at Richmond, .--.about 38 miles from Sydney. Sho lived- by herself, tind.it is believed that, the motive of the crime was robbery, as deceased was supposed to be possessed ;of means..' ''~ . : . A BRILLIANT METEOR. Sydney, May 11. !-An unusually brilliant meteor was seen at Strqudj 152 miles north of Sydney, accompanied by loud rumblings and strong atmosr phoric vibrations. ■ •'.'... .".. THE I'LAGUE.. . SyrJnoy, May 11. A man employed as a carter in tiic city has contracted the plague. .'■'■' Perth, May 11, ' There u a case of plague at Gwaldtoa,'