GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1512, 7 August 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telesraph-Prew Aeiociation-CopyrieM « AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. ,' Sydney, August G. Hie censure debate in tho Legislative Assembly ,i,s dragging. The Government will attempt to force a division before the House rises. Melbourne, August G. The Federal Hbuso is discussing tho Estimates. EIVINGTON DIVORCE CASE. Melbourne, August 6. A decree nisi has been granted in tho Rlvington divorce case, in which Miss I: lorep.ee Young, the actress, was sued by her husband for dissolution of marriage on the ground of desertion. LEPERS ESCAPE. Brisbane, August 6. Two lepers have escaped from the leper station, Peel Island, on Friday last and havo not since been, captured. TYPHOnTipiDEMIC. ; Ottawa, August 6, A hundred cases of (yphoid fever have occurred at Calgary within tho ]ast ten days. OBITUARY. • New York, August 6. Mr. John W. Hcrron, iather of Mrs. W. 11. Taft, wife, of the President, has died suddenly from pneumonia, aged 85. Sydney, August 6. The death is announced of Mr. Alcock, founder of tho firm of billiard-table makers of that numo. VICTORIAN OAT CROP. Melbourne, August G. i The area under oats shows a largo ini crease, totalling 1,292,700 acres, as against 837,381 last year. sydnbyTire. Sydney, August 6. , Messrs. Samuels' factory was gutted by' the fire yesterday. Tho damage is set ' down at .EIO.OOO. BOY SCOUTS' CAMP. London, August 5. Though there has been rough weather in the South of England, one hundred thousand Boy Scouts and other boys are under canvas. ' CADETS ENTERTAINED. I . London, August 5. The Australian Cadets aro Baron Rothschild's guests at Tring, in Hertfordshire. i INDIANS HONOUR LORD MORLEW ) . London, August"s. At the instance of the late. Mr. B. j Malbari, Indians are founding in India a Morley Chair of Philosophy and Hisj tory. LONG AIR FLIGHT. London, August 5. Mr Aloorhouse, an English airman, and two passengers, aeroplaned froin Douai, in Franco, to Ashhood, in England. FRENCH NAVY STRIKE ENDS. London, August 5. A strike of naviil conscripts which occurred at Havre has ended. k ijiperiaiTreciprocity. Ottawa, August 5. Mr. Foster, Minister for Trade and Custome, is going to Australia in February, to complete negotiations for a preferential treaty. 3 CLOUDBURST. Melbourne, August 5. 1 Thero was a cloudburst half a mile from Turriff Station. Five inches of rain fell in. five minutes. An extensive washout on the railway was discovered shortly » before the arrival of the Mildura train. t . PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS.. ■ _. . Sydney, August 5. unionists ore still searching for means to reduce the price of foodstuffs. Tho latest suggestion is a prohibitive tax on imported meat and butter. CANADIAN CADETS. Sydney, August 5. Sixty-four Canadian Cadets were passengers by the Zealandia. They aro on an-educational trip. Thoir itinerary in- * eludes Now Zealand. JEWELLERY STOLEN. 1 Melbourne, August 5. l Jewellery valued at ,£2OO has been stolen from the residence of Mr..Justice A'Beckett. FARMERS FOR VICTORIA. m , „ Sydney, August 5. ine Vancouver steamer Zealnudi.i t brought forty farmers from Canada and the United States, who nro to settle on irrigation areas in Rochester, in Victoria. DEFAULTING CADETS. l _. Sydney, August 5. , Ihere is an outcry against tho. rigorous application of tho law to defaulting ' cadets. Mr. Hughes, Attorney-General, has announced that instructions havo been given to extend the time for payment of fines. The whole question is being con- • sidered with a, view to more appropriate treatment.