GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1517, 13 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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BRITISH CE-OPS. London, August 12. The Times" report on tho British crops is as follows (the average of last rear being taken at 100): —Wheat, 50.4: barley, 93.7; oats, 84.75.

DIPHTHERIA IN SYDNEY. Sydney, August 12. Diphtheria has been, prevalent in tlva metropolitan area for some time, but is now subsiding. Thore. havo been 20 deaths in 20 weeks.CRIME IN SYDNEY. Sydney, August 12. RoVberies and bag-snatching are again prevalent. In some cases violence has' been used, and the victima left unconscious. A QUESTION OF SANITY.; Sydney, August 12. As the result of press agitation, furtb/er investigation has been ordered into fcho sanity of Chidley, the simple Jifo advocate, who was before the police courts recently. MOTOR BUS OVERTURNED, London, August 12. The brakes of a motor charabaiic, at Dalscrf on the Clyde, failed, and the conveyance was overturned on the , embankment, The upper portion fell into the river. Twenty-three persons wero injured. FIVE NATIVES EXECUTED. Tangier, August 12. Five natives have been executed at Mazagan for enabling Kaid Triahi, a dangerous agitator, to escape through a cordon of troops. OBITUARY. London, August 11. The death is announced of Sir Joseph Dirasdalo, Bt., aged 63. [The lata Sir Joseph Dimsdalo was Lord Alayor of London at the time of King Edward's Coronation. He was a Conservative in politics, and sat in the House of Commons from 1900 to 190G.J SHOOTING TRAGEDY. Constantinople, August 12. A man named Montagu, a fighter on tho Turkish side in Tripoli, has been arrested for killing at a Constantinople hotel Byan, a British subject, born at Bagdad. Montagu declared that his pistol went off accidentally. TYPHOID EPIDEMICS. London, August 11. Renter's Agency states that tnoro are five hundred cases of typhoid at Avington. There are twenty-threo cases at St. Rood. TOOR HARVEST EXPECTED. London, August 11. Owing to rain, tho English corn harvest is expected to bo poor. Cut-grass is rotting in tho fields.

A GAMBLER'S SUICIDE. Paris, August 11. Herr Michaelis,. a brilliant Berlin barrister, and a great gambler, committed suicide at Engnicn by drowning. AN ATROCIOUS CRIME. Paris, August 11. Marcel Rouches, aged seventeen years, was sentenced to death a,t Pari3 for strangling a paralysed ount, with a view ■to robbing her. ALLEGED SPIES ON BAIL. Berlin, August 11. Costavitcli and Dakin, who were arrested for suspected espionage in Germany and Russia respectively, have been simul--1 taneously released. Bail in the sum of .£ISOO was granted. INFERNAL MACHINE EXPLODES. New York, August 11. Mr. William Busbeo and .a cashier named Morton were badly hurt by an infernal machine sent through an express company at Greensboro, addressed to Mr. Charles Hoover, a who is influential iu polities. Mr. Busbee's injuries may prove fatal.' A DENVER "JACK THE KIPrHR." New York, August 11. A modern "Jack tho Ripper" is reported from Denver, where Miss S. A. Carlson was murdered and mutilated last night. This is the sixth similar eriyie in :-ix months. THE LATE MIKADO. • Washington, August 11. Mr. P. C. Knox, Secretary of Sfatc, will be America's Special Ambassador at the funeral of the Emperor of Japan. S.S. BUTESHIRE DELAYED. Cape Town, August 11. The steamer Buteshire was detained for five days at Durban repairing her propeller. SINGLE-TAX REJECTED.' Cape Town, August 11. The Transvaal Provincial Council, by 23 votes to 6, rejected the single-tax laad proposals. SMALLPOX OUTBREAK. Capo Town, August 11. There are thirty-four ea*es of smallpox in tho centre of Johannesburg. HIGH-PRICED PROPERTY. Sydney, August 12. A property in Georgd Street, nearly opposite the Post Office, lias been svld at .£513 per inch frontage. mlssing~llpers. Brisbane, August 12. The two lepers who disappeared From Peel Maud aro believed lo hove been drowned?