GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1488, 10 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Br Telegraph-Press Asaooiatlon-Cowlßht '—'—4 :— ART COLLECTION FETCpS, ,£2fi7,028. (Reo. July -10. 0.55 a.m.) m, London, July 9. . The John Edward Taylor art collection has been sold ot auction tor ,£267,028. The proceeds havo only once been exceeded— at the Hamilton Palace dispersal in 1882. AN EX-NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH. ■ , Sydney, July 9, . , An open verdict has boon returned at •the inquest .on the-.(body of Thomas M'lntyre, found in the harbour. The deceasedwas formerly employed as a mechanical engineer by tho MasseyHairis Company in New Zealand. He disappeared while travelling: on a ferry boat. . MUDGEE .MURDGR. • . , Sydnoy, July 9. The jockey Phillips, who killed his former sweetheart, a girl named Raynor, at Mudgee, has died as tho result o'f tho wounds he inflicted on himself, DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. ' A tragedy has occurred 11 hi ICaLbali, near Newcastle, where a miner named Daniel Keenan and his wife were found dead at their homp. The man had his throat cut and the wife was stabbed in heart. -Tho details are meagre, but there aro indications that Keenan murdered his wife and then committed suicide. ' V—— COMMONWEALTH POLITICS. Melbourne, July 9, The censure debate has been resumed in the Federal Parliament. There are no signs of its finishing. GUN PRACTICE FATALITY. Vienna, July 9. Five eunners were killed and four wounded, at Venprem by tho prematuro explosion of a shell during artillery practice. ROYAL TOUR OF YORKSHIRE. London, July 8. Their Majesties King: George and Queen Mary are visiting the industrial factories and collieries in Yorkshire, MEMORIAL TO MR. W. T. STEAD. London. July 8. A movement is afoit to erect a journalists' memorial to the late Mr. W. T. Stead, who was lost in the wreck' of the Titanic. SIXTY PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. St, Petersburg. July 8. Sixty workers who were sleeping in sheds at Lipetzk, 240 miles south of Moscow, have been burned to death. MINING DISASTER. New York, Juljr 8. A dynamite explosion in the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company's mine at Ely, Nevada, killed nine men. MINING AMALGAMATION. Melbourne, July 9. The Amalgamated Zinc Company has decided to exercise its option of purchasing tlie patents and licenses of tho Potters' Sulphide Company. Tho combine will be ablo to deal with over 300,000 toils of concentrates yearly. . CHURCHES AND IMMIGRANTS;Sydney, July 9. Various churches axe establishing homes for housing immigrants who are adherents. SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE. Sydney, July 9. Tho Federal Government is negotiating in tho hopo of settling the Government House difficulty. ' LARGE ORDER FOR LOCOMOTIVES. Sydney, July 9. The Clyde Engineering. Company has concluded arrangements .with tho State Government to build 100 railway locomotives at a cost of over .0600,000. CADETS FINED. Sydnoy, July 9. The military authorities aro taking active steps to olieck the evasion of drills. Large batchos of cadets liave been fined .£5 each. Similar action is being taken in the other States. SUBSIDY TOR AN ORCHESTRA. Sydney, Juiv 9. Mr, Carmichael, Minister for Public Instruction, promised sympathetic consideration to the Orchestral Society's request for <£1000 to establish a first-class orchestra with the object of raising (he standard of music. DEXTAL: CONGRESS. Brisbane, July !). The Dental Congress lias opened here. New Zealand is represented.