GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph-PrCBB Association-^Jopyright ';—; —r—9 —- '■■' CHARGE' OF MANSLAUGHTER.'"' : \ '-._, : '' Sydney, February 3 Thomas James Dibley, aged eighteen, a dealer and professional boxer, is dead. His skuh was fractured- and- his brain lacerated in a street squabbleon January 24.! James Maher, aged nineteen,' a labourer, has.been charged with tho manslaughter at Diblo.: COMMONWEALTH DOCKYARD. ■_,'„. Melbourne, February 3. : Commonwoalth Government will pay; New- South 'Wales ; JC873.000 for' tho naval dockyard at Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour. ' .■• ■'-.'•-.' ;. FINE. OF i!00,0O0. ■'. - : :' \\ ■ • •',,'', Paris, February 3, ; A wholesale spirit merchant, formerly mayor of Montmoreau, has been fined J!60,000 for offences under tho oxciso law. - /. ' '.. ..- ■.-.■-.■,-'. Hlopement abandoned. . ','•.-. ' l-oridon,. February 3. A Lowestoft man boarded the Kinuiat Plymouth, aud discovered his;wifo with two children in tho soCond-class with her lover. She reluctantly abandoned her elopement on being told that sho would be deported when sho roaohed Australia.:, ', : ! • _ v . .■•.i.nMU'ti.'.n DOCTORS AND INSURANCE.'.'

London, February 3. ' ■ There aro now 1163 doctors in tho London insurance panels. " ."■'. .' SHIPPING COMPETITION. / Vienna, February 3. Tho Austrb-Americana Steamship Co., which is'financed mainly by tho Dentschobank, announces that it will commence monthly sailings in March from Trieste to St. John's, Nova.Scotia in winter, and to Montreal in summer. . [It was recently stated", that a shipping war was probable because of tho entry Of tho Canadiaii-Pacific line into tho emigration traffic Jbetwocn Trieste and Canada.]; ■ . ■'■■..;'.- •■• ~. . '"■ INSURANCE ■ - '' ■' '■'■;' :■ London, February 2. , The Supplementary Estimates include' 31,825,000 for special grants, under the Insurance Act. ~,".'. ■;". PRINCE BAGPIPES. . London, February.2. The "Pall Mall Gazette" states that tho Prince of Wales is learning the bagpipes; Other undergraduates are forming practising parties.', .:■'■''■■■'■'.''' '!.'■■' . KILLED BY FALLING' CLIFF. : V ; ...- ', London, February^, v 'By a fall of a cliff at Rottingdean, on the coast of Susses, seven workmen. Were buried.: Two wero killed, < • -',„." • OBITUARY. ,-'',-: ' 'i London, Februarv 2. Colonel 5. M.'M'Calmont, Unionist member for East Antrim since 1885, is dead, aged 65. ". . ' BANK MESSENGER-ROBBED. '■'•"- ' "' ..''■;.,, '■;'. .Paris, February 2. • Thieves attacked a bank messenger in tho Ruo Dauphine and robbed him of JG2200. '■ .- ~. ■ ' BOATING FATALITY. v .Melbourne, February 3. Four employees in the Government Statistician's Office went out in a , boat fishing, when soually weather upret them, and two-William Ryder and Austin Fyfe —were drowned.

MERCHANT SERVICE AGREEMENT. Sydney, February 1, Tho North Coast Stenm Company and the Merchant Service Guild have arrived at a working agreement. , ' ,

MISHAP TO GERMAN CRUISER. . ' ■ ■ ■'• • : Berlin, February 1. Thiv third-class cnnsor ; Augsburg, a vessel of 4280 tons displacement, built in 1909, was driven nshoro at Sonderberf, but has been refloated.