GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By T elegraph-Press Association-Copyright

j ALLEGED ADVERTISING FR.VUD. London, July 28. Tlio four men, Koss, Matthews, Conick, and Lavcudofsky, recently arrested on a charge of conspiring to defraud, have been committed for trial. They advertised good positions in branches of an alleged Colonial Supply Association in Australia and New Zealand, coupled with, assisted passages. Several hundred applicants forwarded the foes demanded. MURDER. SUSPECTED. Sydnoy, July 2G. An elderly man named Hoey has been fouud dead in bod iu a tent at Grafton, with a pea. ritle bullet in his brain. Ho had apparently been shot while sleeping.. Tlio police tracked and arrested a suspected man at Bollingen. SYDNEY RAINS END. Sydney, July 20. lho weather has at last clrared aftei nearly a fortnight of rain. DARING STREET ROBBERY. Sydney, July 27. A daring: robbery has taken place in th« city. An employee of Messrs. Faulding, and Company was returning from a bank with a. bnj? containing Ml, for tlio payment of wages, ■ when two men hustled him into a doorway, snatched the bug, and escaped. A.M.I'. SOCIETY. Sydney, July 2G. The special meoting of the A.M.! , . tfo-i cicty adopted a proposal to contributo out of the funds α-sum of .£2500 amumlly to the Officers' Provident Fund. SYDNEY BANK .MEETING. 1 Sydney, July 26. At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank' of Commerce it was announced that (Iu bank's net profits for tlio period vert .I'fiS.SM. . A dividend nt tlio rate of i\ per cent was declared, and «t10,65( carried forward.

COMMONWEALTH OFFICES. London,. Julv 23, The excavation of the site in tho'Sti-mul for tho Commonwealth buililui',' hns been completed. . MURDERED FOR. INSURANCE. Paris, July 25. A woman named Gauthior has been sentenced.tp death at. Rouen for .strangling her daughter in. order to secure Ji'M iusuranco money. PRINCE KATSURA'S MISSION. _ . ~ Toklo, July 25. Owing to tho Government's insistence, Prince, hatsura, who has been negotiating the treaty with Russia, will prolong his stay in Europe, and not return on account of tho Mikado's illness. WRECKED BY AN EARTHQUAKE. ■. ~ , Lima, July 25. An earthquake wrecked Piiivn. Jinny people wero killed and injured. RELICS OF A SEA TRAGEDY. Sydney, ,Tuly 2G. Lumps of butter have bnen washed ashore at Eden, on the South Coast. Apparently they are from tho fame source us tlioso recently fouud at Tntlira, as they como from n southerly direct ion. I The butter washed ashore at'Tathra was supposed to have como from the steamer I'cga, wrecked eomo years ago.l GILDED SIXPENCES. Sydnoy, July 2">. The polico have untMirtnsd a plant uwd for making t'ilded sixpences.