GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telecrash-Freai Amoriatioa-Courrisht

FALL FROM A TRAIN. (Rec. September 10, 0.30 a.m.) Sydney, September 9. At the inquest on Macnamara, whoso body was found in tho Otford Tunnel, on tho Illwarra line, a verdict of death from injuries Teeeived through falling from the train, there being no evidence how lie fell, was returned. The coroner said ho was inclined to believe there had been no foul play. CHARGE OF SEDITION. Cairo, September. 9. . The Sheihk Shawish, editor of a Constantinople paper, who is charged with fomenting sedition in Egypt, lias arrived here, and. has been incarcerated in gaol, INDIANS ON THE WARPATH. New York, September 9. Reports from Arizona stale that the Yaqui Indians have taken to the warpath, and that a band of a. hundred raided liealito and Colonia. DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. London, September 8. The Development Commissioners intend, spending before 191G ,£'2,000,000 on agricultural and fisheries research, live stock improvement, afforestation, and the cultivation of tobacco, flax, and hemp. IRONWORKS TRAGEDY. London, September 9. . _ A quantity of molten slag was being tipped ill darkness at an ironworks at Dowlais, South Wales, when it engulfed three workmen, killing and shockingly mutilating them. GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL. London, September' 9. Mr. Abe Bailey has given .6105 o.nd Mr. Richard Cory and Miss Mary Fowler £1000 each to the General Booth memorial fund. A BOOKMAKER'S FORTUNE. London,' September 8. The estate of Sir. Thomas Charles Williams, a bookmaker, of Church Stretton, has been sworn at .£IG3,BU. BUSH NURSES FOR VICTORIA. London, September 8. One hundred applications for positions! as bush nurses in Victoria were received. Many of the applicants are highly skilled. Two were engaged. Thc.v will sail from Vancouver by the Zealandia on October 2. t MOTOR-CAR COLLISION. Paris, September 8. j A motor-car collided with a tram at Aries, and the wife and a relative of Professor Joubert, of Marseilles, were killed.. Throfl other occupants of tilt ear were seriously injured. ALMOST A CATASTROPHE. St. Petersburg, September S. Two trains, with .several Grand Dukes ■ and Ministers aboard, narrowly escaped a collision near Fiji, be lux on Moscow j and St. Petersburg. The diversion of one J info a siding saved a cxtaslrophe. : Tho engines and carriages were damaged. WOOL CARGO DAMAGED. Brussels, September 8. Tho Australian Steam Shipping Company's steamer Arrino has arrived at Antwerp. She 7'eports meeting with heavy weather. Water got into her lower hold and dnmaged some bales of wool. ATTEMPT TO ROIi A TRAIN. Stockholm, September 8. Four masked men attempted to rob Ihe Umea mail train. A mail sorter, after a desperate struggle, locked the door ol a compartment containing a largo sum in cash. The as'ailants escaped while the train was slowing down. • A CHINESE REVOLT. Calcutta, September R. Advices received hero report that Chinese troops in soulh-wost Yunnan have rovolled, and that Ihe Governor of the province, which is- in (he extreme southwest, has disappeared. KING INVITED TO Pit WOK lA. .Pretoria, September 8. Tho South African Government has ihe King and Queen to visit South Africa and open Ihe Union Buildings in I'.MI. DMI'HXC'i: V. RELIGION. Sydney, September fl. At a meeting ol' llie Anglican Missionary Sucii'lv, complaints were made that compulsory training was seriously intertwine with tho mission bands' work.