GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1262, 18 October 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Us Ttlocrauh-l'rcsa Association—Oopyrieb» INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN LONDON. (Bee. October 18, 0.15 a.m.) London, October 17. An influenza epidemic has broken out in London. It is characterised by an attack on tho muscles of the heart, causing sudden and sometimes alarming collapse. The best treatment has been found to keep the patients warm' in bed and to givo them liltlo food. LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONING. London, October 17. Clear telephoning has bsen established between London and Bale, in Switzerland, via Paris and B«li'ort. ANOTHER ITALIAN DREADNOUGHT. Rome, October IC. A fourth Dreadnought named the Guilio Cesaro has k>en launched at Genoa. MISSING YACHT ARRIVES." London, October 16. Tho Nordstern, formerly the Kaiser's yacht Meteor lit, jivhich it was feared had foundered between Gibraltar and Kiel, has reached Falmouth. TRAGEDY AT A HOTEL. Vancouver, October Iβ. At a hotel at Toroiuo, Canada, fivu men were suffocated through an escapeof illuminating gas. OBITUARY. Sydney, October 17. Mr. Norman Selfe, engineer, and dosigner of the first ocean-going steamer ■built iu Australia, als-o of tho threw gunboats used by the Now Zealand Government during the Madri War, is dead. IRRIGATION CONFERENCE. Sydney; October 17. Mr. Noilscn, ex-Minister for Lands, lms been appointed to represent the Government at tho Irrigation Conference, to bo held shortly in the United States. AN EXTRAORDINARY PROFIT. Sydney, October 17. Giving evidence belore tho Food Commission, a fisherman declared that ho had received ,£2 Gs. Gil. for a consignment of fish for which tho public paid tho retailer Mi. THE MISSING YONGALA. Sydney, October 17. The yacht Noma has returned alter an unsuccessful search for tho steamer Yongala, lost on the Queensland coast. RUN DOWN BY AN ENGINE. Adelaide, October 17. Two men wero riding on a railway tricycle when they were overtaken b.v an engine. Ono of tho men, named Faull, was killed. The other escaped without injury. WORKERS' COMPENSATION,

The Labour Bills Committee has taken "voluminous evidence" ou tho Workers' Compensation Bill, which it recommends should bo allowed to proceed with amendments made in it by the Committee. Ono of the amendments recommended is that Section i of the principal Act bo. amended by repealing paragraph Baud substituting the following:— (b) If tho worker does not leavo any total dependents, but leaves any partial dependents. Tho compensation shall be such sum as is reasonable and proportionate to the injury to tihoso dependents, but not exceeding in any caso the amount payable under tho foregoing provisions 13. (1) The wife of a deceased worker and his children under the ago of 1G years (whether .legitimate or illegitimate) shall be conclusively presumed to liavo been dependents on the earnings of that worker at the timo of tho accident which caused his death, but their dependency shall Iμ deemed to bo partial only unices it is proved in fact to bp total. (2) Nothing in this section shall apply to a wifo wlio, at tho time of the nccideut w'liich causes her husband's death, has deserted him without just cause. Clauses have been inserted providing that action for recovery o£ comi>on«ition for accident out of Now Zealand may bo stayed until plaintiff undertakes not to (.ike proceedings ol?ewhoro, and also providing tli.it proceeding taken outsido New Zealand shall bo available as a defence to action in New Zealand for recovery of compensation.