GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1237, 20 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

B j TolocraDh- Press Association-OoDyrlKtil BANK ROBBED OF .£50,000. (Rec. September 20, 0.35 a.m.) Berlini September 19. ' The director o£ tho AubVrg Discount ; Bank has disappeared, leaving defalcations 1 amounting to ,£50,000.- ; CHANGE AT THE ADMIRALTY. i . London, September 18. It is officially announced that Sir i Charles Inigo Thomas, Permanent Socrci ta.ry of tho Admiralty, is retiring. Sir. i 1 IWflliMn Graham Greene, at'present A* . sistaut-Sccrctary, will succeed him. CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY'S SUSPENSION. London, September 18. 1 Tho Sunderland Co-operativo Sociely v > with a membership of 14,000, has suspend- ' od operations owing tx> tho withdrawal ' of .£21,000. Tho directors state the ■ society is solvent. A MISSING MAN. London, September 18. Tho police are searching for a mnn ■ named Henderson, a dentist belonging to • Rutherglcn, Victoria, who disappeared : from a London hotel in October, 1!)10, A man resembling Henderson stayed at • Southall early in this year, and left for ! Tuubridgo Wells in April last. I AN OVERDUE STEAMER. Sydney, September 19. There is serious anxiety as to tho safe-; ty of the coastal steamer Rosedalo. which is three days overdue from tho Namljucca River. Steamers aro out searching . Tho Rosedalo carried a crow o£ eighteen and about nine passengers were aboard. GOLF. Sydney, September 19. Tho golf professional thirty-sis holo stroko competition was won by Campbell with a score of 151. In tho iutcr-Stato match New South. ■\Vales defeated Victoria by six games to one. A FATAL EXPLOSION. Melbourno, Septembor 19. Two men named Birch aim Parker vcro repairing a gun-metal pump plunger. Tjiey poured molten metal on to it, when it exploded. Parker was killed, and Birch seriously injured. A youth 1 was slightly iujured.