GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 892, 11 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Preen Association—Copyright, TRADES UNIONS AND POLITICS. (Kec. August 11, 0.10 a.m.) ■ London, August 10. The Liverpool Chancery ' Court has granted an injunction against the ■Amalfoniated Weavers' Association for using its funds for parliamentary purposes. This is the first action of the loud in the cotton trade. FEDERAL ARBITRATION BILL. . Melbourne, August 10. . The House of Representatives has carried the third reading of the Arbitration Bill. POTSDAM SHOOTING CASE. Berlin, August 10. It is believed that the shooting of the Potsdam p'owder-inagazino sentry, reported yesterday, was the result of an' attempt by foreign spies to secure a secret device for firing: artillery guns. Other similar occurrences have been reported recently. A VILLAGE INUNDATED. St. Petersburg, August 10. The • village of Bashghenink, in' the Caucasus,' was overwhelmed by a. flood at midnight. Five hundred house's, .with their inmates, were destroyed. • Many cattle were also lost. ' MELBA IN AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, August 10. ' Madame Melba will give, an operatic season in Australia next year. DOMESTIC~TRAGEDY. . Adelaide, August 10. A man named Arthur Hines killed his wife by cutting her.throat, and then.inflicted a severe wound on his own throat. The couple had lived unhappily. London, August 9. . Earl Speniier experienced an alarming epileptic fit.; His condition is critical. The estate of the late Mr. George Chimes-Ross, "King of the Cocos Islands," has been proved at .£287,798. The Board of Trade returns for July show that the exports increased by «£547,3C4 as compared with-July, 1909. During ■ 1909, liquor licenses in England and Wales decreased by 1470, 'while by 432. The convictions for drunkenness decreased by 10 per cent. ' _ , The Admiralty has decided to grant naval veterans full funeral honours. A serious dispute has. arisen between British Guiana and Brazil. Tho colonial authorities in British Guiana accuse the Brazilian' Government of. imposing prohibitive ■ taxes on cattle and meat crossing the frontier in contravention of a re-, cent settlement. . . A case of cattle maiming is reported from 'Wolverhampton, where a disembowelled horse has been discovered. No arrest has .been made, i Paris,. August 8. The Minister for Marine has adopted regulations excluding Apaches (Parisian hooligans)' from, the navy, as was done in the! case of the army last March. ■ . Rome, August 9. ' Two sons of. General Segato, an exItalian Secretary for War, were , found dead in the Aosta Valley; . Piedmont. They had fallen from a height of 900 ft. . Signor Cesar Ballauti, Chief of Police, .committed suicide at Rome. He recently arrested forty members of tho Terrorist Society of the Camorra. ■ Madrid, August' 9. A boiler explosion nt Malaga, Southern Spain, killed four persons and Injured twenty-two. Sofia, August 8. A dynamite explosion occurred in a camp at Sofia. Seven persons were killed and eighteen injured. ■ . f " Tokio, August 9. • .Floods at Shizuoka, Japan, submerged hundreds of houses and caused a landslide, which buried a nuniber of students and. derailed trains. ■ Melbourne, August 10. The Federal Government is inviting lenders for a Canadian mail service by three alternative routes, two including Auckland and Sydney. The. Federal Government. is trying to induce, tlio British Association for the Advancement of Science to hold a conference in Australia. ;. Sydney, August 10. . In the Legislative Assembly the Railway and Tramway Superannuation Bill, making contributions compulsory, was read a second time. As a result of the stand recently taken by the Sydney merchants, the quality of Victorian produce has greatly improved. • • , There is a plague of caterpillars in tho AVestern "Darling district which may seriously affcct the prosperity of the coming season. Early'this morning the two top floors of Lyon and Milling's hardware warehouse in Clarence Street were destroyed by fire. A considerable quantity of crockery and glassware was. lost. The dainago is estimated at six thousand pounds. -