GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TelegraDh—l'reau Asßoclation-Oopyrteht, 1

UNUSUAL GUN ACCIDENT.

. (Rec. August 21, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 20. In the howitzer manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain, a high wind deflected a (gun blast on to some cartridges in a neighbouring wagon,' causing an ' explosion. Two gunners wore badly burned..

London, August 19. Two hundred and forty Peers and Bishops -have written to tlie PostmasterGeneral (Mr. Buxton) in favour of penny postage to .France.

PENNY POST TO FRANCE.

London, August 19. All sections of the cotton trade are adopting the decimal system, as from September 1 next. Fractions of a penny will bo. expressed in hundredths, and" all weights, in pounds.

THE DECIMAL SYSTEM.

FIERY ORATOR FINED.

London, August 19. At Motherwell, Scotland, Pastor Boal, a Protestant lecturer, was fined £10, the alternative being sixty days' imprisonment, for preaching in such a maimer as to provoke the Roman Catholic and Socialistic members of liis audience.

LANDSLIDE BURIES FIFTEEN.

Berlin, August 19. Fifteen soldiers were buried in a landslide at Munz during mining operations. —■—— '

ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.

Madrid, August 19. At the Barcelona railway station a man snatched a handbag, containing jewellery aud banknotes to the value of £8000, from the wife of Senor Martinez del Qainpo, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and at one time Minister of Justice.

BITTEN BY MAD DOGS.

New York, August 19. Two mad dogs, bit fourteen persons near New York. .

/ ITALIAN POLITICIAN COMMITS . • SUICIDE.

Rome, August 19. Count Macola, a Venetian/inember of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. He is believed to havo been insane since ho killed in a duel a Democratic lea'der named Felix Cavalotte. ■ .1

STRIKE AT BUDAPEST.

Budapest, August 19. Four thousand mill hands have struck' at Budapest for an increase of wages for Sunday work. • • ■

- NO LAND FOR HINDUS.

Sydney, August 20. Twenty Hindus applicants for land on the North Coast, wore excluded from the ballot:" ''' "'':.■'." '

AUDIENCE IN A PANIC;

. London, August 19. At Kettering, 'Northamptonshire, a fire broke out during a kinematograph performance. The people in the gallery became panic-stricken, but the ■ pianist ..continued playing, and the manager■' of: the entertainment exhorted the audience to keep calm. • Many reseated themselves, others got out by ways. of the fire escapes, and several who had fainted were carried out.

WHALING CREW SUCCUMB;

London, August 20. Swertser's whaling crew have all succumbed to scurvy at Spitzbergen. Twelve of : the crew have been found dead. Bears were near the human bodies.

KING EDWARD MEMORIAL.

" Cape Town, August 20. The Mayors of South Africa are formulating a scheme for a memorial to King Edward.

COTTON MILLS CURTAIL WORK.

New York, August 20. . Cotton mills in New England, employing 50,000 hands, have given notice of a further curtailment of work.

MR. FRANK PODMORE DEAD.

London, August 19. The body of Mr. Frank Podmore, M.A., the well-known critic of Spiritualism, who has been missing, was found in a pool at Malvern, Worcestershire. [The late Mr. 'Podmore was born in : 1856, and was the son rf the Rev. Thompson Podmore, late headmaster of Eastbourne College. He has written a number of books, and many magazine articles on subjects connected with; psychical research.]

FIRE IN A MILLINERY SHOP.

London, August 20. A fire destroyed Morley and Lanceley's millinery shop at Brixton. Tho girls and other employees sleeping on the premises rushed into the street in their night-gowns, having lost all their clothing. The damage is estimated at £40,000.

. QUEEN HELENA AND-MONTE-NEGRO.

Rome, August 20. It is expected that Queen Helena, of Italy, who is a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, will not attend the' rejoicings at Cetinje, .the Montenegrin capital, in celebration of the conversion of the principality into a kingdom. Queen Helena dcolares that with King 'Emmanuel she goes instead to where hor subjects are being stricken down with disease.

A RAILWAY REFORM.

London, August 20. The Groat Western Railway Company is abolishing second-class compartments on the trains in its London and suburban services from the end 'of the. month.

There has been a general movement among the British railway companies to abolish tho second-class, leaving only first and third. Tho Midland Railway took the initintivo in tho reform, abolishing it second-class compartments in 1575, and greatly reducing its first-class fares. In 190S the Great Western alolished the sec-ond-class on its South AVnles branches.