GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1312, 15 December 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association-Oopyrigli! — ! $ BRITISH FINANCE BILL. (Rec. December 15, 0.15 a.m.) i ~ _ London, December 11. In the House of Commons the Finance mil was read a third time in a thin liouse. SAD DOUBLE DEATH. Now York, December 14, thf « f « n ass ? m ')li'iS to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Sir. Bernard ICotch, aged s££-vril-iffV c '"jsbanil and wife dca'cl. £ died of heart disease, and tlie Wife was killed by .the shock. A LARGE NUGGET. • , Sydney, December 11. A miner has found a 240z. at flargraves, 211 miles west of Syfe A CHANGEABLE BRIDE. Til n 1 t . Lon , lion i December 13. J uo Key. A. Hawkins, vicar of Whitwell, and Lady Constanco Foljambo, daughter of the Earl of Liverpool, wcr< quietly married in London last Monday. I Lady Constanco failed lo arrivo on the (laj lixed lor her wedding with Mr Hawkins in July.]

MAURETANIA DAMAGED. , , ~, London, December 13. Liglity of the bottom plates amidships' ol the Cunard liner Maurolania. 31,!137 tons, which grounded in tho Mersey a lew days ago during a hurricane, * are being removed. 'JL'lio repair work will take eight weeks to complete. SIR JOSEPH HOOKER. , . , London, December 13. The friends of tho late Sir Joseph Hooter, the famous botanist, declined the oiler ot the Dean of Westminster to allow the body to bo interred in the Aboey, on condition that the remains were previously cremated. The burial took placo at ivew. THE ORION I'IKE. , London, December 13. rjac three Admiralty olheials, tour ofheers, and thirteen others, who were severely burnt owing to an outbreak ot lire on tho battleship Orion at Plymouth, are progressing favourably, AVIATION FATALITY. _. Paris, December 13. Lieutenant Lautheaume fell while aeroplaning between litawpes and Melun and was killed. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGES. New York, December 13. Irankim, one of tho investigators in connection with the trial of tho M'Namara brothers for the Los Angeles dynamite outrage, is held for trial at Los Angeles. Ho is chargfcd with attempting' to influence a juror. UNSEASONABLE WAUMTH. . New York, December 13. Ihere is exceptional warmth at Boston and New i'ork, tho temperature being 68 degrees. Tho humidity is great.

AMERICAN POLITICS. t, , . New York, December 13. The Republicau National Committee has disclosed itself as pro-Taft. At a meeting in Chicago it is proposed to formulate a programme. ASSASSINATION IN BENGAL. Delhi, December 13. Monomohun Ghose, a police inspector, was assassinated at Barisal, Bengal. The assassin escaped. BILLIARDS. <Rec. December 15, 0.15 a.m.) London, December 14. Gray started with a break of 303, and then displayed poor form. Stevenson averaged 47 ai;d Gray 28. Tho evening's play was monotonous, but Gray recovered form towards the close. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. Sydney, December 14. _ The Legislative Assembly has been sitting since yesterday, discussing the Estimates, in view of the Christmas adjournment to-morrow. The Council has passed the Income Tax Bill through Committee unamended. NEW ZEALAND WOOLLEN COY.'S WORKS DESTROYED. Perth, December 14. A fire at Kalgoorlie destroyed tho New Zealand Woollen Company's works l and three other premises. Several othei buildings were damasred. Tho insurances amount to .£IO,OOO. THE ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSIPS. Melbourne, December 14. Davis has arranged to go to New Zealand for tho athletic championship meeting. THE TONGALA MESSAGE. Sydney, December 14. Officials regard tho Yongala bottle incident as a hoax. The writing in the message will be compared with tho signature of J. West, tho ship's cook. BEER-DRINKERS' VICTORY, Sydney, December 14. The extended beer-drinkers' strike ot Broken Hill h»s ended. Tho publicans have reduced the price of pinls from Cd. to 4d. each. MOTOR CAB COMPANY'S LOSSES. Sydney, December 14. A special report of the Australasian Motor Cab Company shows that the company lost ..£23,00(1. The chief reason for this was the insufficiency of tho number of cabs miming. It was decided to transfer control of tho company from London to Australia.