GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1582, 28 October 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TeleiraDli—Press Association-Conyricht e PTOMAINE POISONING. Sydney October 27, Out of a party of 18 picnickers 12 have been taken to the hospital suffering from ptomaine poisoning through eating sandwiches. Two nro iji a serious condition. HENLEY ON THE YARRA.. Melbourne, October 27. The estimated attendance at the Henley-on-the-Yarra Regatta was 100,000. 'l'lio Albert l'ark crew won the .Graiid .Challengo Cup. . UNUSUAL ACCIDENT. Sydney, October 27. A peculiar tram accident occurred in the city. A fuse on a car blew out, and molten lead poured down on the passengers, three of whom jumped out. A man named Kishovitch was killed, and his son and a lady seriously injured. BALLARAT BAND CONTEST. Melbourne, October 27, Twenty thousand persons wero present at tho finals of the Ballarat Band Contest. The Uozollo Band (New South Wales) won tho championship with 183 points. The Geelong Municipal Band was second with 18G points. ARRESTED MAN DISCHARGED. London, October 24. Simmons, tho fishmonger who was arrcsted a few days ago on a charge of being concerned in th<> armed robbery of a jeweller's 'shop in Edgwaro Road, has been discharged. ARRESTED AFTER AN EIGHT MONTHS' CHASE. Peking, October 2". Tho soldier, who is accused of shooting the Rev. F. Day, a well-known missionary at Chicliau, near raotingfu, in March last, has been trackcd to Tientsin, and finally caught at Ivirin after a sensational eight months' chase. ARMED STRIKERS. New York, October 25. Two hundred of Hie Cretan miners on strike at Bingham, Utah, fired on a posse of deputies and mine employees, wounding five, ono of them fatally. The Cretans have lied into the hills. They are strongly armed.' NAVIGATION BILL. \ Melbourne, October 2fi. In the Federal House of Representatives the Navigation Bill was read a third time. CONGESTED AVHARVES. Sydney, October 2G. Merchants strongly complain of lack of wharfage accommodation in Sydney. They say trade is badly hampered and shipping seriously delayed. " TREASURY BTLLS PAID OFF. Sydney, October 25. In the Legislative Assembly Mr. J. H. Caiui. the Treasurer, announced (hat four and three-quarter million pounds' worth of Treasury deficiency bills had now been wiped out by means of surplus revenue, • FATALITY ON THE MARAMA. Vancouver, October 27. Owing to the fall of a trail? jilnnk on tho steamer Mnrama, of the Union line, a steward named was killed and another steward and a sailor badly injured.