GENERAL CABLE GRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1783, 23 June 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE GRAMS.

Br Telegraph—Pi-ssa .teooirAton—Copyright ?•' rLABOUR SECRETARY'S SUICIDE. (Rec. June 22, !U5 p.m.) Capo Town, June 21. Bernberg, a member of the Johannesburg municipality, and secretary of the South African Labour' party, after being bailed out on a charge of theft of trust funds, committed suicide by taking poison. OBITUARY i SIR "FREDERICK JOHN-' SIJONE. London, June 21. . Sir Frederick Johnstone, the wellknown sportsman,, is dead. SIEVERSKWOOTTON CASE. London, June 21. The Appeal Court has refused Sievers' application to stay proceedings compelling him to supply Wootton with further particulars of his defence. BIRTH OP A SPANISH PRINCE. Madrid, June 21. The Queen, of Spain lias been accouched of a son. COMMONWEALTH CRUISER. London, June 21. The Commonwealth cruiser undergoes her acceptance trial on Juno 23, prior to being commissioned. SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE BILL. London, June 21. The Scottish Temperance Bill has been read a second time. AUSTRALIAN SUBMARINE FLEET. London, June 20. The first Australian submarine has been successfully launched by the Vickera Company, of Barrow. OVERDUE VESSEL. London, June 20; I The French steel vessel Buffon, 2,609 ! tons, which is overdue, has been reinsured ] for thirty-five guineas^ TURAKINA'S BUTTER AND. CHEESE. London, Juno 20. The underwriters are paying tho total loss on the Turakina's butter and cheese. ULSTER GUN-RUNNERS.' London, June 20. Four cases of rifles and bayonets were found on the steamer Greenore, FORESTRY'IN AUSTRALIA, London, June 20. The International Conference on Forestry listened with much interest to a paper by Mr. Peter M'Bride (Victorian Minister for Forests) •on "Forestry in Australia"; also a paper by Sir Newton Moore (Agent-General for Western Australia), on "Forestry in Western Australia." AMERICAN SCOONHR SUNK. Boston, June 19. The White Diamond liner Sagamore rescued eight of the crew of the schooner Olympia, sunk in collision off Sable toland, Nova Scotia. Tho captain and five of tho schooner's sailors were drowned.

A NEW ZEALAND PLAYWRIGHT. London, June 19. A one-act play, "Unclo Bill," was well received at the Globe Theatre, The author .i? Miss Rosemary Rees, of Gisborne, New Zealand. ' DOMINION LINER LAUNCHED. London, Juno 19. The New Zealand Shipping new steamer Ngakuta has been launched. TRAM-CARS IN COLLISION. San Francisco, Juno 17. Electric oars collided head-on at Vallojo, Solano County. Eleven passengers were killed and many injured. The cars wero completely telescoped. Mistaken orders caused tho wreck.