GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1668, 7 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Br Teloirrar/h-Pross Aesociatlon-Ooryriirht ■' ——r>—■—>.'.'; ■'• ■ NEW SOUTH WALES TEAM FOE '■v v. BISLEY. ■;■>';•: i ■;-.) v.(Bee. February 6; 9.33 p.m.) ■V" „ « „ „- Sydney,. February 6.*' _ How boluth Wales has three members ill tho Commonwealth riflo team for the Bisley meeting, as follow:—Arthur Cutler >(Bathurstf: Lieut. Blacklow (29th Infantry), landF. G. Harrison (Randwick).. NEGROES NOT TO BOX WHITES. ;..'...•■.,...; New York,'/February o.' .The State Commission has prohibited boxing matches , between whites and negroes. : " ;/;-'■ \~'.' : .'■.''■•■■' ■/■'•'; ADVERTISING AUSTRALIA.. ' , : ■ - ;■•.; London, February 5. Tho New South Wales wool exhibit has been opened at Ha'pick ■■ Technical Institute. .Many manufacturers,.mill, and former technical students were present. , FOOTBALL SPECTATORS ' ~ ' ■< ; London, Februarys. ■'• A number of persons climbed on the roof of a building, to watch the SunderlandManchester cup'tie, at Sunderland.fThe; building, collapsed and fifteen of i.tW peoplo' had to be taken to tho hospital, many with broken limbs and several with \oonoussipns.. •; ,'.■■.- ~. '■ ;■•••,• AUSTRALIAN CRUISER. ' '•;'(•>;'; ,; Malta, February 5., The Australian cruiser Melbourne has arrived here.• ' ,'., ; ; <■ r;(..■!■.,i'. , CHINESE LOOTERS EXECUTED.'• Peking, February 5, Forty unpaid soldiers found guilty of looting were executed., . ■" ' '.-.'.*'.■'.."" ."■;.- CHINESE :LOAN".RUPTTJRE. '" J ' m , V:. : Peking, February 5. - Tho French and Russian Ministers have ruptured the loan negotiations, objecting to Italy al;d Germany participating. ■"■■■■■ .CAPTAIN SCOTT'S RETURN; V - San Francisco, February 5. ■ Mrs. Scott, wife of the; Antarctic explorer Captain Scott, has left to meet her husband. She. expects Captain Scott to return to Lyttelton in March, • and does not doubt-his safe, return. • .Sydney, February 6. Professor David states that he expects the. Term Nova to return from the Antarctic to New Zealand, in March. ' .. ' fatal fire;/: '■'■'• ■'■';. Melbourne, G.,\ Mrs. Archer and her daughter, Mrs. Pctersep, and tho latter's daughter, twelve months old, were fatally .turned in a fire atLako Colac, which started owing to the i curtains beinc blown on to a candle, Mrs. Petersen's other children fled.-; NEW AUSTRALIAN. JUDGE. Melbourne, Eebruaryfl., Mr. Frank Gnvan Duffy, K.C, a leader of the Victorian -Bar, succeeds late Mr; Justice O'Connor as a Judge of the High Court of Australia. ("Mr, Duffy was born in 1852, and is a son of the late Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, '■ He is the author of a. number'of legal work*,' and is 'the preBeat'editor of the Victorian Law Reports.] 1 DOCKYARD DISMISSALS, i' - : ' • : - ' Sydney, February 6. The dismissals from; th© Cockatoo Is. land Dockyard; taken, over', by the' Commonwealth,' number; 70, not 250, as pre, viously; stated. !.•■ '. ■•• ■'. •■ : : ; : MILLIONAIRE. DEAD. v ;: ■';• ~'> LonSon, February 5,/!, - Mr. ;Bradley Martin, an American milliohftire, is dead. , fMr. Martini was borri in.1841, a member: of the New York Bar, although ho has riot practised for many years. He commanded, a com-, paiiy in the American Civil War.'. H« has lived,in Great Britain l for a iong time/ Ono of his daughter* was married in 1893 to,the Earl of Craven.]; ; ' MUNICIPAL FISH MARKETS; .' ■■ Sydney, February o.' Mr. Grane, Supervising' Inspector-of Fisheries, in a report, condemns _ tho municipal fish market system as inefficient'and wasteful. « CO-OPERATIVE CEMENT WORKS; : .' Sydney, February ,6. ■' The unionists at tho Portland cement works are considering a project for tho establishment, of a co-operative cement works. The proposal is to raise a, capital of J3200.000 by a levy of threepence a week on unionists, in New South Wales and bther.States. .'. , . '■■■ : ; DOMINIONS COMMISSION. . . " .Sydney, February 6.-. The Dominions Commission will com- 1 mence its New South, Wales investigations on April. 11, iand will spend ft; fortnight .in the State. Seven commissioners arecoming, hut tho,names have hot been divulged. ■' . ";^ ■■•;;■ chinais aerial'fleet; ■'■.■•,■• '">: ! , ; . Paris, February 0. ' : China hag ordered twelve, biplanes from Franco, and will have its aerial fleet trained by French officer? and r instructbrSt :, COOL' WEATHER IN SYPNeV; ,■, ' ■.''. ■ Sydney, February G.' A cool ohange is :now prevailing; after the dry spell, and brief but. beneficial rains are fairly general, , : /N ; : ',',. ,;,.-. ' After six years of practically coritjnu--ous law-making, the people of. tho United States are surfeited with Congress. After six months of incessant political turmoil, their are sick and,tired of politics and politicians. They are weary of tho machinery by which they nro governed, says the "Bellman" (Minneapolis), it creaks too much, it is' too obvious, too. insistent. There ore-other things to do on earth besides'ruling and being ruled. We need less activity in Washington end greater activity in business, loss law-making; and' more law-kcbping, less talk and more business'. ~ ■ Zeuith-Gradua Motor-Cycles, SJ's and 6 h.p. now on hand. 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