GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1487, 9 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Prese Association—Casyriifht

SCARCITY OF FAT SHEEP. • . .Sydney, July 8;' : Good-conditioned sheep aro scarco at tho Homcbush sales, and prices continue to be very high. SHIPPING AMALGAMATION. ■ ■ Tokio, July 8. It is reported that the British India Steam Navigation Company is purchasing tho Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. which owns forty vessels aggregating 90,000 tons gross. [Tho British India Company's capital is over two millions sterling, and that of the Indio-Ghina Company about ,£000,000.] COLLIERY DISPUTE SETTLED. Sydney, July 8. The trouble at the Hebburn colliery has been settled. The men refused to use machines for cutting pillars, and their demand for the use of picks has been conceded. : ■ VICTORIAN 'RAILWAYS. Melbourne, July 8. The Railway Commissioners have decided that tho tracks for all new railways shall bo wider, (o allow of tho use of larger rolling-stock to meet the increasing traffic. [The Victorian railway gauge is already tho widest in Australia, The message apparently rnoaus that wider I cars nro to bo used on flio present gauge.] OBITUARY. Sydney, July 9. The death' is announced of the Hon. James M'l'nerney, who was recently appointed to tho Legislative Council. MOORISH PRETENDER,ROUTED. Fez, July 8. General Gourand reporls that ho has oomplctoly routed the Pretender. The enemy left many dead on the field. FATAL BOMB EXPLOSION. ' Lisbon, July 8. A bomb exploded in the domicile of a man named Cunha, who had recently been acquitted on a charge of conspiracy at Costa Castella, Cunha was killed, and others were injured."• TORPEDO BOATS UP THE RHINE. Berlin, July jB. On the occasion of tho Navy Congress, Hires German torpedo boats, by permission of the Dutch Gnvnrjimeut, a;cended tho Rhine to Dusscldorf. FRENCH ENGINEERS ON STRIKE. Paris, July 8. The strike of engineers nt.Mnrceiiles is now general. Naval'engineers aro replacing the strikers. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. ■ London, July 7. Board of Trade returns show that imports to tho United Kingdom fbr the month of Juno .decreased by .£131,301, exports decreased by .£1,110,819, and reexports decreased by .£3,011,839 compared with the previous June roturns. PROTECTING THE STARS AND STRIPES. Washington, July 7. A Bill providing for penalties for desecration of the flag of the. United States and tho coat of arms has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Its object is to prevent use of tho flog for advertising purposes.