GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 12

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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AN IRON TRADE COMBINATION. (Rec. November 25, 9.25 p.m.) London, November 25. The whole of the Scotch malleableiron trade is pnmliiniiig with a view to a better distribution of trado and the elimination of Home competition.! Each firm has been allotted a percentage of the production, as in the nail trade. A PROSPECTOR MURDERED. Port Darwin, November 25. A prospector has been murdered by the natives at Granite Hills. His head was battered to a pulp. EMBEZZLEMENT OF £25,000. London, November 25. William Finch has confessed to embezzling £25,000 belonging to the Phelps, Dodge Company of New York, copper merchants. His salary was £900 per annum. A NEW SOUTH WALES MURDER. Berlin, November 25. The examining magistrate at Hamburg declines to say whether extradition proceedings are pending in the case, of Reinholtz, not Gerlach, who is ' under arrest on a charge of murdering a man named Coleman at Dungog, N.S.'W., as cabled on November 23 of last year.. RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION. Melbourne, November. 25. Mr. Tait, the retirins, Commissioner of Railways, in giving evidence before tho Royal Commission which is investigating the- subject, stated .that the financial result' would not justify the electrification of tho railways at, present but ho "had no hesitation in recommending the electrification of the tramways. ■ WEST AUSTRALIAN WHEAT HARVEST. Perth, November 25. Tho Government statistician estimates the wheat harvest at 7,594.264 bushels, with an average of 12.3 bushels to tho acre. . ' ' ■ Y.M.C.A. CAMPAIGN. London, November 24. ■ The Young Men's Christian Association in Manchester.has. built a new. home at a cost of £48,000. The association requires £20,000 to complete the work, and of this amount it collected £14,000 in twelve days. ' CRIPPEN'S COMPANION. 1 London, November 24. Ethel Le Neve, tho companion of Hawley Crippen. hanged for the murder of his "wife at Hilldrop Crescent, Camden, has left for America. A GENEROUS DONOR. London, November 24: ! Mr. Henry Wallace, of Liverpool, has | given £10,000 to tho Presbyterian Foreign Mission Society in memory of his father. • :, . ; AN INTERSTATE ESTATE. ..;' ' . / London, Novenfoer! 24. .'■' The Probate Division of. the 'High Court pronounced Phillips,- reference...to whose death was cabled'on Febinary 23 Inst, intestate. Ho left a" bank 'balance of £3000, and there .was supposed to be other property in tho colonies,. . , -~, NEW AIR RECORD. ' ~ ; New Y oris, November 24. ■ Mr. J. A. Drexel, the amateur aviator, flew at a record height at Philadelphia, reaching an altitude, of 9970 feet. ■- ' ■ ■ ;.■ - : •..: ■' ;- AN UNUSUAL PROSECUTION. ' Ottawa, November 24. A railway porter named Lynn, charged with chloroforming lady passengers on the Canadian Pacific Railway, the alleged motive being-robbery, was acquitted at tho Mooso Jaw Assizes.

INFANTILE MORTALITY REDUCED. Sydney, November. 25. _ Infantile mortality in the metropolitan area during the past few years uas been reduced by 50 per cent. , It is claimed this is: the result of strict supervision of the milk supply. : CHURCH UNION. Melbourne, November 25. At the annual congress of the Council of the Churches, Professor Adam, in his presidential address, dealing with the question of the union of cmirchos, said it would- probably be some years , before Protestant Union was brought about in Australia, oven with the Angli- , cans omitted. . PTOMAINE POISONING. Melbourne, November 25. Mrs. Moodie' and her two grown-up daughters died ■ after .eating tinned tongue. A FALSE CLUE. . Porth, November 25. In connection with the supposed important development regarding.the caso of Ethel Harris, who disappeared some, months ago, an examination of the flesli found in the sanitary trenches discloses the fact that.it is not human.