GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1802, 15 July 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Araociation—CopyTieht 9 QUEEN 'ALEXANDRA RECEIVES . LADY -SCOTT. London, July 13. Queen Alexandra received Lady Scott and her son Peter, to-day, FATAL EXPLOSION >' SEVEN KILLED. Paris, July 13. An explosion at a brickworks at Chatonny killed soven persona. DUKE LUDWIG'S DIVORCE SUIT. Berlin, July 13. Duke Ludwig of Bavaria has been granted a divorce. . ' BOILERMAKERS ACCEPT MASTERS' OFFER, London, July 13. The Boilermakers' Socioty, by 4184 votes to 3493, have accepted the shipbuilders' offer mhdo last month—an increaso of a shilling per week nnd 2J per cent for riveters. . .WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE. (Rec. July 15, 0.10 a.m.) Sydney, July 14. A quantity of unidentified wreckage, consisting of hatches and beams, has been washed ashore near Nowra, a few miles, north of Jervis'Bay. The. wreckage has apparently been in the. .water for some, considerable time. . CRYSTAL PALACE. (Reo. July 15, 0.10 a.m.) London, July 11. The Crystal Palace Fund, of .£90,000, has now been raised. .VESSEL REINSURED. i London, July 14. The overdue vessel American has been reinsured at seventy guineas premium, SYDNEY UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. Sydney, July 14. Mr. Holman, the State Premier, in a speech at Gundagai, promised that the underground city railway system would not connect with North Sydney. MIXED MARRIAGES AND SECULAR EDUCATION. Sydney, July 14. 'Archbishop Kelly, preaching at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, declared that Christ wept over. tho question of mixed ■ marriages and tho publio strtiool .system of education. OVERSEAS CLUB IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, July 14. A branoh of tho Ovorseas Club has been formed in Melbourno. FIRES IN NEW SOUTH WALES, (Rec. July 14, 9.15 p.m.) Sydney, July 14. M'Donald's boot factory at Chippendalo (a suburb of Sydney) has been destroyed by fire, with heavy loss of stock. Much valuable machinery lus been destroyed. Three shops at Gundngai (241 miles from Sydney) have been (rutted. ELECTRIC TRAINS IN COLLISION. (Reo. July 14, 9.55 p.m.) New York, July 14 Twelve people were killed and fifty injured in a collision between two clcctrio trains at Los Angeles. "VISITATION OF GOD." (Sydney "Sun" Special—July 14, C.30 p.m.) London, July 14. At an inquest, held at Edmondton, on a child who had been killed by lightning, the Coroner objected to the customary verdict to the effect that tho fatality was "a visitation of God." BRITISH LUNACY RETURNS. (Sydney "Sun" 1 Special—July '14, 6.30 p.m.) London, July 14. The year's lunacy returns for England and Wales show that 128,000 persons wero afflicted, an increaso of 2000 on the previous return. N ,During tho last fifty years the number of mentally afflicted has increased fourfold, in tho same proportion 09 tho increaso of tho population. TREACHEROUS RUINS. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July 14, G. 30 p.m.) London, July 14. A schoolboy who was visiting tho ruins of the ancient castle of Bodiam ; at Hastings, gripped a crumbling coping stone, which gave way. He was precipitated to the basement, through tho centre tower, a distance of forty feet, breaking his neck. Lord Ashcombe, tho proprietor, has prohibited tho publio from visiting tho ruins in future. "JACK" JOHNSON IN LONDON. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July 14, G. 30 p.m.) London, July 14. "Jack" Johnson (the ex-prize-fighter) and his wife are at present in London. They have a motor-car and servants, and are being greeted in the streets by thoso who recognise them. Johnson is going to fill a month at the music halls, and intends to return to the United States in December next to answer the charges which have been preferred against him.