GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Bx Telceraph-ProM Association-Conyricht 9 THE KING AND THE ARMY. (Ksc. Septembsr 24, 0.-J5 a.m.) ' London, September 23. The King, in an Army Order, pays n tribute to the zeal and energy of tlio Army, and .states that he is -satisfied that the present system of training is conducted on sound lines. RAILWAY COLLISION. Paris, September 23. Two excursion trains collided at Caen. Eight persons were killed and twenty injured. BUNDABERG TRAGEDY. Brisbane, September 23. A hoy aged two and a girl aged three were found dead in bed at Bundaberg beside their mother, Sirs. Budgen, who was suffering from poison,- and is in a precarious condition. A tub of water was in 'the room, and the children appeared, to have been lifted from it. Later. Mrs. Budgen esciped from the Bundaberg H3spit-:1 oik! drowned herself in tho river. AN OLD MAN'S HOARD. Melbourne, September 23. James Frawley, aged 65, a bachelor, residing alone in poor surroundings at Ballarat, has been found dead in his house. A sum of .£I3OO in deposit receipts and cash was discovered in his coat pocket. SUNDAY THEATRES. London, September 2.1. A meeting of music-hall artists at Ihe Trocadero has protested against the Sunday opening of theatres. WATERLOO MONUMENTS. Brussels, September 13. The foundation of the Victor Hugo memorial has been laid at l'laneonoit, on ilie field of Waterloo, anil an ossunry has also been inaugurated, in which some lately-discovered Waterloo jkelctons have been laid. AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLED ROBBED. London, September 22. Josephine Thompson, aged 21 years, has been arrested on a charge uf robbing Henry Edgar Deshiere, an Australian farmer, of JCI7S, in bank notes, in a London street. A TIEKOIC BOY. Now York, September 22. At Gary, Indiana, William Hugh, a newsboy, will permit the ampulation of iiis crippled leg for skin-grafting purposes to wivn Hip lifo nf Miss Ethel Smith, a girl whom the buy lias never seen, Iho doctors having slnied Mini Ihe girl would not recover from bums she bad sustained without skin to cover Ihe wounds. BOMB EXPLODES IN A MOSQUE. Constantinople, September 22, A bomb exploded in Iho Mnsrpio of Akehitsehelobi, Adrianoplc. II is reported that lil'ly persons were killed. PEItSIAN REVor.T. Teliernn, September 22. The undo of Ihe Shall, Salar-eil-Dow-leli, lias I'viieiialeil Kennim-duili, which hm been occupied by (lovei'iiineiit liuopi, MEAT FOK HONOLULU. Sydney, September 23, Tile Sail I'Vauci-uo liner Sonoma is Uklug 1.10 lollH of frozen meal for ILm.dulu, <'UK'RETINA FATALITY. Sydney, September 23. William Joyce, aged 31 ,yimr.i, was practising bowling ut the cricket neu when lie was struck over I lie heart b.v a bull from anullier net, a,ml expired ililllledinlely, MOIISMD.V IN SYDNEY. Sydney, September 23. Three swell iiinUnicii have arrived, They mi, nlliri-il ill clothes, wear iiniiniciihilit liiulneni, ami ovinia pro.'.pei'ity. When f| iu>r-l iniii'rl by the police lu Melbourne, one admiHi-d hiiriiiu tritvitlle.fi uu lli« Cuiitiuent, "imiLinu pinl . Uionny,".