GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1239, 22 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—CoDyrishi CHIEF DETECTIVE* SHOT. London, September 20. ■ Mr. Chantler, chief detective at Hastings, whilo investigating a murder was shot in a cell at the police court with a revolver taken from a suspected murderer. EXPLOSION ON A CRUISES. Paris, Soptembor 20. The brooch-block of a gun on tho cruiser Gloire exploded at Toulon, killing ono and wounding fifteen others. Later. Fivo of the wounded men on tho cruiser Gloiro are dead. RECEIPTS FOR LETTERS. London, September 20. Tho General Post Offire is introducing from October next a halfpenny certificate proving that a letter has been posted. A BANKER'S DEFALCATIONS. Berlin, September 20. Half the amount of tho defalcations (the total is said to be .£50,000) of the absconding director of the Augsburg Discount Bank, has been recovered. COUNT CONVICTED OF MURDER. St. Petersburg, September 20. Count Ronikior, a Polish uoblerann, lias been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for the murder of hi« lirntl,o- ; n. law, a lad of 17, who stood between him and a fortune. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. New York, September 20. John Harrington, a Chicago attorney, has been arrested at San Francisco on a charge of contempt of court iu connection with tho Los Angeles dynamiting case. ASSAM POLITICAL MURDER. Calcutta, September 20. Tho Abor tribesmen will possibly muster ten thousand men to resist tho expedition being sent to punish them for the murder of Mr. Noel Williamson and others. A NEWSPAPER FINED. Melbourne, September 21. Tho publisher of 'tho "Argus" has boon fined i.'200 for contempt of Court, in publishing articles dealing with tho Peaoock murder case. FOREIGN MERCHANT CRUISERS. Melbourne, September 21. In the House of Representatives Mr. Ivelly moved that action bo taken to discourago the trading in Australian waters of foreign vessels capablo of conversion into onusers. Debate on tho motion was adjourned, until Thuredny,