FACTORY INSPECTOR KILLED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 866, 12 July 1910, Page 5

FACTORY INSPECTOR KILLED.

Melbourne, July 11. Mr. H. Ord, Chief Inspector of Factories in Victoria, was killed by being thrown from his horse.

MORE PAT FOR CIVIL SERVANTS.

Brisbane, July n. Increases, probably amounting to .£IOO,OOO, are to be given to the.loworpaicl public servants in the State on account o£ tho increased cost of living.

LEPROSY. Brisbane, July 11. A cose of leprosy lias been discovered in South Brisbane Tho sufferer is a schoolboy, whose father is an inmate of the lazaret. FOOTBALL. Sydney, July 11. The American Universities' football team left by tho Warrimoo to-day for New Zealand. (Rec. July 11, 11.20 p.m.) Latev. It was the American and not tho English football team which sailed on the Warrimoo. England plays its second match against the Australians on Wednesday. A SYDNEY MYSTERY. Sydney, July 11. A discharged revolver has been found at Prospect Dam, near where the body of John Cryer, formerly of Pembroke, Central Otago, was found a year ago. The body, it will be remembered, was only recently identified on exhumation by peculiarities in tho deceased's teeth. At one time foul play was suspected iu connection with tho death. It is now thought that Cryer shot himself. BROKEN HILL OUTPUT. m . . Sydney, July 10. Ihe mineral exports from Broken. Hill for tho half-year ending on Juno 30, amounted to ,£1,102,000.

MYSTERIOUS VESSEL. Perth, July 11. The mysterious vessel eecn near Maud's Landing by the natives at the ond of May, nnd rumoured to bo a Japanese warship secretly surveying the coast is now supposed to have been a vessel fishing for beche-de-mer.