GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 9 RAILWAY MYSTERY. Sydney, August 19. The police investigations in connection with tho Illawarra railway mystery discredit the story that tho dead man M'Namara was returning homo nftor a big win at tho races, and indicato that ho had only a few ehilliugs on leaving Wollongong. ENGLAND'S WET SUMMER. London, August 19. Thoro has only been 38 hours of sunshine sinco tho beginning of August. CANADIAN TEACHERS' TOUR, Paris, August 19. • A party of 150 Canadian school teachers who are touring France havo had a most cordial reception. A VIOLENT SUFFRAGETTE. London, August 19. A Suffragette named Leigh smashed the windows of her cell at Dublin and demolished everything breakablo in it. THE OIL INDUSTRY. London, August 19. The_ British and Australasian Oil Corporation proposes to issue .£150,000 six per cent, debentures. WHALES IN PLENTY. Sydney, August 19. Whales are plentiful off the Heads. A school of twenty was observed close to the cliffs, A RECORD 'JUMP. Paris, August 18. Tho 'Australian horse Biskra and tho thoroughbred Mont Joie tied, clearing 7ft. 6in., at Vittel, beating Conspirateur'a record. STABBING AFFRAY IN A TRAIN. Berlin, August 18.i. A 1 youth, apparently a lunatic, with a long knife, attacked three 'ladies in a suburban train, and stabbed them seriously. The alarm cord was pulled, but the youth escaped. ' ■ LUNATIC ATTACKS A BISHOP. • Vienna, August 18. Hermann Pring, a lunatic, stabbed Bishop Fflugcr in the shoulder while tho Bishop was proceeding to church to oclobrato High Mass on tho occasion of tho Emperor's birthday. Tho wound is not serious. Pring was arrested. LOS ANGELES TRIAL ENDS. New York, August 18. Clarence Barrow, a Chicago lawyer, nfter four months' trial at Los 'Angeles on a charge of bribing jurors iii tho Macnamara dynamiting case, was acquitted. SIR GEORGE REID ON TOUR. Ottawa, August 18. Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, is touring Canada. Ho spoko at tho dedication of Nova Scotia's memorial towor. MIDNAPUR CONSPIRACY. Calcutta, August 18. The High Court has exonerated Mr. Wcston and two policemen in connection with the Midnapur conspiracy case, and dismissed tho suit against them for damages amounting to .£20,000. [Mr. Wcston and tho policemen were alleged to have used throats against persons arrested in connection with a bomb conspiracy with a tow to securing a<lmis-' sions of guilt from them.] THE AURORA LEAKING. Melbourne, August 19. The Aurorn, the exploring ship of Dr. Mawson's Antarctic.expedition, which hns arrived back from a cruiso in tho Southern Ocean, is leaking. It,is impossible to estimate tho damage until sho has been docked. RAILWAY MYSTERY. Sydney, August 1!). Tho coroner has ordered that the body of tho man M'Xamara. found in a tminel on tho Illnwnrrn line, shall be cxhumpd. Tho police do not think tho case ono of murder. OVERCROWDED TRAM-CARS. Sydney, August 19. The tramway employees have obtained a lesal opinion to the effect that riding on tho fcotbonrd of the cars is illegal, mid that a conductor mny lawfully remove any passenger so doing.