GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1574, 18 October 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TelceraDk—Press Association- Coryricht

9 ' , JEWELLER'S STRONG-ROOM RIFLED. Adelaide, Octobcr 17. Burglars rifled the strong-room, at Messrs. Harris and Scarfe's, itud secured i£looo worth of jewellery, COONAMBLE TRAGEDY. Sydney, October 17. A sentence of six months' imprisonment 'with hard labour was to-day imposed ou Casey, who was yesterday found guilty of , the manslaughter of his neighbour Ivoenig at Cooiuilnbie. [Casey had been auspicious of the relations between his wifo and Ivoenig, and remonstrated with Koenig, with a gun in his hand. Ho slated that his trembling caused the gun to go off. Kocnig received a flesh wound, but dice' . from mortification.] A LARGE ESTATE. Sydney, October 17. The estate of the late Sir. Thomas Cook, of Turanville etud fame, has been sworn at .£325,273. There arc largo bequests to the Anglican Church and charities. GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL. London, October 12. Messrs. Rothschild have contributed £1000 to the General' Booth memorial fund,

MR. ASQUITH UNWELL. London, Octobcr IG. Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, who is suffering from a chill, will bo absent from the House of Commons tmlil Monday next.

A MARRIAGE ANNULLED. London, October 10. . The Edinburgh Courts have annulled the marriage of Edward Shiels, n wealthy Londoner, on the ground that ho had previously., married a dressmaker by mutual consent, in Scotch form. Jeanetto l'olack, the second wife, was awarded .£SOOO damages. ANGLO-GERMANY AMITY. London, October 10. One hundred and (en Socialist 'menu bers of the German Reichstag nnd 41 Labour members of the British House of Commons have signed a manifesto in fav« our of Anglo-German friendship. TAXI-CAB MURDEI!. London, October 10, The coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Edward Ropwood, the city man who, on October 5. was arrested in\ a taxi-cab in Fenchurch Street, in which was found the dead body of l r lo. Dudley, a music-hnll performer, GERMAN PETROLEUM COMBINE. Berlin, October 16. Leading banks, including the Deutsche Bank, recently formed an association to promote a petroleum company. Tho Deutsche Bank has seceded from tho Gerinaa Petroleum Company, the latter having concluded an agreement with a subsidiary concern of the Standard Oil Company, and refused to co-operate in the Government scheme to block tho Standard Oil Company from gaining a, monopoly ill Germany. WRECK IN THE ARCTIC. London, October 16. Tho iron four-mnsted barque Daghild, 2210 tons gross, was wrecked on lho t Kaniu Peninsula, in the White Sea. Her,' cargo, totalling sixteen hundred lons, was insured in London. RUSSIAN ARMY ESTIMATES. St. Petersburg, October 10. The Army Estimates for nest, yeaf total .154,558,175, an incivaso of .05,265,958 on the present year's Estimates. VICTORIAN POLITICS. Melbourne, October 10,. ' The censure motion in (lie State Legis« iative Assembly was defeated by 29 lo ID. COMMONWEALTH APPEALS. ' '' Melbourne, October 10, The Commonwealth Government has decided lo appeal to the Privy Council against the Coal Vend decision.' Application is to be made lo the High Court for leave to appeal against the decision in (lie Sugar Commission ease. FIRE AT ULTIMO. Sydney, October 17.' - Bottle slows and washing sheds belong ing to the Brewers' Bottle Association at Ultimo were destroyed by fire. The damngc is estimated nt .CSOOO. OBPrUARY. Adelaide, October 10. Tho death is announced of Mr. William ■Tamieson, member for Murray in the Stato Assembly. PTOMAINE POISONING. London, Octolwr M. A hundred tiersotis are suffering frotf ptomaine poisoning at Manchester through eating tainted pork. Three an dead. HUGE DEFALCATION. Paris, October 15. I.epreux, an employee of the Sue. Canal Company for thirty years, who in March last was arrested at Lille, after having absoonded in tho previous October, has been' sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on a charge of embezzling .£BO,OOO. ISSUE OF WORTHLESS SCRIP. ' ' Brussels, October 15. • Ono of the directors of a Belgian railway company disappeared after lie had issued worthless scrip to tho extent of half a million pounds. An accomplice liai been arrested,