GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1739, 2 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. $ CHINA'S PARLIAMENT. (Rec. May I, 11.20 p.m.) Peking, May 1. Tang Hung Sim, a supporter of tho Government. has been elected Speaker by •J7!) votes to 21S. BIPLANING FATALITY. Berlin, May 1. Lieutenant Mirbnch and von Brnnn, 'while biplaning at Darmstadt, were killed. FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. Bombay, April 30. A passenger train collided with a goods train at Nagpui. Twenty-eight Indians iwro killed and fourteen Indians and' two Europeans seriously injured. GERMAN ARMY INCREASE. Berlin, April 30. In tho matter of tho army increase pro-. posed by the War Office the Budget Committee has only authorised the raising of three new cavalry regiments instead ot tho six the Government required. BUILDING BOOM SLACKENS. Melbourne, May 1. The long-continued boom in tho building trade is casing oft'. The price of bricks has boon reduced by from .Vs. to 7s. a thousand owing to tlio slackness. ANOTHER CLARA BUTT TOUR, Frcmantle, May t. Mr. Kevin Tnit. theatrical manager, was a passenger by the Omrah ficfni England, lie has announced that Clara lint I. and her husband (Kennci'ley Rumlord) with a strong company will iirrivo in iilnut a wed; on a six-month*', tour of A.iHralia and New Zealand, lie has abo arranged for visits by .lohn M'f'uruiack, Harry Lauder, a]ul Harold Bauer.