GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.
By TeleEranh—Press Associatton-OopyrleM 0 — ;' BRAZIL'S CUSTOMS TARIFF. ' (Rec. February 2S, 0.55 p.m.) Rio do Janeiro, February 28. The Government has authorised tliS Finance Minister to reduce nr abolish tho duties on imported nccessari'cs.
TWO MEN DROWNED. (Rec. February 28, 8 p.m.)
Adelaide, February 28. Two men, Stephenson and_ Putres, were drowned while engaged in diving work at the jetty extension of Wallaroo.
GERMAN SPY DETAINED. London, February 27. Willielm Claire, iv German lyinchbaclt, arrested oil February 20, has been remanded under observation for a pear. J here was activo correspondence with Brussels and Berlin.
A SPLENDID GIFT. London, February 27. ' A sum of JCIO.OOO lias bi'en anonymously piven to provido a p-Al'liolopienl block for the Middlesex Hospital School.' ' I . . FIRE IN A FACTORY. Melbourne, February 28. Emerson furiiituro factory has been destroyed by live. The daniago is estimated at .£7500, ami is covered by insurance. PERSIAN ROBBERS. Teheran, February 27. Mr. Green, a railway surveyor, has been robbed at Builder AWxis ftoad, where tribesmen also looted fivo hundred camels,
CHAIRMAN OF'CHARTERED CO. London, Febrnarv 27. Dr. Jameson lias been elected chairman of tho British. South Africa Chartered Company.
1 GENEROUS DONATION. Adelaido, February 28, Mr Petor-Waite, chairman of the Elder, Smith Company, has donated .€IO,OOO as tho nucleus of a provident fund for tho company's employees.
Two cowboys performing at Colchester engaged in a cross-country raco for a bride. Tho lady, unable to docido 1»tween tho rival suitors, agreed to choose the winner of a raco, the loser to bo tho best man. Tho raco was an exciting one, and was won by a neck. Triplet) were born on January 13—tho day when maternity benefits under tho Insurance Act began to operate—at Saudiway, near Northwich, Clioshiro. Tho Kiiig's Bounty is being.applied for in addition io tho insurance bonus. A communication has lx>en received from Paris by an English clergyman stating that tho writer has in his possession tho copy of Gray's "Elegy" owned by Gonoral Wolfa»
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 5
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328GENERAL CABLEGRAMS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 5
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