GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

■ INTERNATTONAL HORSE SHOW. New York, November 19. In the international horse show jump-' ihg contests, open to officers of the world, the United States was first and second. England, Canada, Holland, and Belgium' competed. ' LYSOL POISONING TRAGEDY. Sydney, November 20. George Veitch, the youth, aged 18, who . with his sweetheart, a girl named Hilda . Gowan, drank lysol after a quarrel, ia dead. - OBITUARY. London, November 19. Mr. Richard Norman Shaw, R.A., tho well-known architect, is dead. MR. WILLIAM B. TEGETMEIER. ; London, November ,20. Mr. William B. Tegetmeier, the naturalist and journalist, is dead. He worked for 'a number of years with Darwin in . . a special study of variation in animals'. TIN-PLATE TRADE. London, Novembor 19. Owing to the war stopping consignments to .the Levant,-ten tin-plate nulla , at Swansea have been closed. y PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL CASE. London, November 19. In tho Privy Council appeal case, Wil- . liams versus Delohery, of New South Wales, judgment was reserved. The respondents were hot called on. In the cas'o Tibbets, and others versus Young, special leave to appeal was refused. A GENEROUS DONOR. . ■ • London, November 19. A lady has anonymously given Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop, of Westminster, .£50,000 for ,tho ercctjon of a Roman Catholic hospital at Dollis Hill. IMMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA. London, November 19. The Australind Steam Shipping Companyfs steamer Armadale takes four hundred assisted immigrants to West Austra- . lia, including a number of boys selected : under the Rhodes. Child Emigration Scheme. EDUCATION CONFERENCE. London, November 19. A meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Imperial Education Conference, attended by Sir George Reid and the Hon. , T. Muckenzie (High Commissioners for . Australia and New Zealand respectively),: and the Agents-General, discussed the--procedure of the conference. RAILWAY COLLISION. New York,, November 19. Six persons were killed and six injured . in a head-on collision . between special.; trains in North Carolina. One of the * engineers confused his orders. The cars - . were reduced to match-wood. , . ■ MR. JUSTICE O'CONNOR. ■ ... . Melbourne, Novomber 20. Tho House of Representatives placed on record a tribute to Mr. Justice O'Connor, after eulogies had been' made by Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Deakin. : SYDNEY BUTCHERS' STRIKE. : ' Sydney, November 20. The hearing of the butchers' strike summonses has commenced. Pending a decision the strike continues. The meat supply and prices are not seriously affect«d.