GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1496, 19 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—PreM Association—CopyrijhJ

THE FIJI DISTURBANCES.

Suva, July 18. The heariug of the charges against the natives concerned in the recent land disturbances has been adjourned. A commission is to inquire into tho matter.

WOULD-BE ASSASSIN SENTENCED

Hong-Konfl, July 18. Lihohung, who recently made an attempt on the life of the ,Governor, Sir Francis May, has been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life.

BEQUEST FOR CAMBRIDGE.

London, July 18. The lato Mr. Charles Brinsley Marlay, of Westmeath, who left <i fortune of half a million, has bequeathed vCBO,OOO and an art collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. [Sir Marlay Inherited the entailed portion of the estate of the last Earl of Belvedere.]

VALUABLE ART COLLECTION.

London, July 18. At the sale of the Taylor art collection the grand total realised was .£358,499.

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Sydney, July 18. The verdict at the inquest into tho Kahibah tragedy was that Kcenan murdered his wife and then Committed suicide. The evidence did not oiscloso any motive for tho crime. Tho pair wero on good terms. The husband suffered from-pains in the head.

BURNED TO DEATH,

Melbourne, July 18. A Mrs. Clarke and an infant perished in tho flames in the burning of a house at Dunn's Town, 70 miles west of Melbourne.

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE,

London, July 18. A fresh outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has occurred at Swords, near Dublin.

REBATES ABOLISHED.

London, July 18. Tho new South African mail contract abolishes the rebate system.

BLUEJACKETS' PAT.

London, July 17. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking in the Houso of Commons, denied that Admiral Lord Fisher's Commission, on oil-fuel, etc., is to inquire into the question of seamen's pay.

SUMMER BATHERS DROWNED.

Berlin, July 17. Twenty-two persons were drowued while bathing in tho River Rhine ou Monday and Tuesday last.

OBITUARY

London, July 17. Tho death is announced of the Rev. T. Bowman Stephonson, founder and honorary principal of the Children's Home. [Tho late Mr. Stephcnson was 73 years of age. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1800, and in 1891 became president of tho Wealeyan Methodist Conference. Ho presided at the Oecumenical Methodist Conferences at Washington in 1891 and in London in 1901.]

WELCOME TO MR. JAMES BRYCE.

Adelaide, July 18. Mr. James Bryce, British Ambassador to tlio United Slates, lias arrived lioro. Ho was given a oivic welcome. SMALLPOX IN JAVA. Brisbane. July 18. A f-eriotis outbreak of smallpox is reported in Java. XICKEI, COINS. ' Melbourne, July 17. Tho Prime Minister, . Mr. Andrew Fif.lior, states that the Commonwealth Govornmont favours nickel in plage of ■fiCJESS (tfUUSfc