GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1755, 21 May 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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PASSENGERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. (Rec. May 20, 9.15 p.m.) . Melbourne, May 20. The Orvieto, which has arrived" here from London, brings the following passengers for New Zealand:—Mr. M'Nsill, Mr. and Mrs. Bankart, Messrs. Brown, Bidmead, and Healey, Mr. and Mrs. Maclvcr, throe daughters and three sons, Mr. Moorhouse, Mr. and Mrs. Tnttersall, two sons and daughter,. Mr. and Mrs. Woodward" and daughter, Mr. Coctor, Mr. and Mrs,, Treusch and child, Rev. Falkner and Mrs. Falkner, Mcsdamcs Vavasour. Ruhleman, aud Heydon and daughter, Misses Smith, Boulton, Irving, Paveymerrie, Waller, and Kilgour ,and twenty-six in the third-class. THE INSURANCE ACT. (Rec. May 20, 10.25 p.m.) London, May 20. Dr. John Scurr, president of the Doctors' Union, has been arrested for delivering a speecli on the Insurance Act, inciting disorder at Leeds.

SALE or A STEAMER. London, May 19. A Chinese firm at Hong-Kong has pnrehnsed tho P. and 0. steamer Naming (5078 tons). Tin December last the Narrung was badly damaged during a gale in the English Channel, while bound for Australia."]

TOUR OF INVESTIGATION. London, Hay 19. Messrs. Watt, M'Bride, and Baillieu (Premier, Minister for Lands, and an honorary Minister of Victoria respectively). have gone to Manchester. Liverpool, and Bristol. They will return to London' on Thursday next.

SYDNEY SCULPTOR'S WORK. London, May 19. Mr. .Fail-lie Cunningham, a Sydney sculptor, is exhibiting a bust of Captain Wallington. Private Secretary to the Queen, and who at various times acted as Private Secretary to Australian State Governors and the Governor-General of the Commonwealth. SCHOONER GEORGE E. BILLINGS. Sydney, May 20. The five-masted American schooner George E. Billings, just refloated after being stranded for nearly a week on a sandbank in Botany Bav, li,ns been found to be strained, and is leaking slightly. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. Sydney. May 20. James Grace, a resident of ICempsoy. is dead. He was aped 102, and was tha oldest Mason in New South Wales. A SAD TRAGEDY. Sydney, May 20. James Martin, a resident of Hillgrove, was accidentally shot dead by his daughter, who picked un a loaded gun which her brother had laid on a bed after returning from shooting.

SUGAR SURPLUS. London, May ID. Kerr F. 0. I.icht, sntjar expert, of Magdeburg, in his monthly circular states that'the production of beet suger in Europe shows an increase of 2,532.0110 ton*. He estimates that for the campaign tliero will be a total surplus of 2,02G,000 tons. HROICEN DOWN. London. May 10. Lloyd's .stale that the Leylrind liner Caledonian is detained at Aden, an engine having broken- down. She will probably sail on May 21. SOT,TiI HAND OF EMIGRANTS. London, May 10. The steamer Belgic sails with fifteen hundred emigrants for Freniantle.