GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1804, 17 July 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Frees Aeeociation—Copyright 9 INSURANCE ACT AMENDMENT. (Rec. July 16, 10.40 p.m.) London, July IG. The National Insurance Act Amendment Bill hag been read a second time in the Houso of Commons. JEWEL THIEVES IN ADELAIDE. Adelaide, July IG.. Two men broke the window of M'Dougall's jewellery show at seven o'clock last night, and stole £550 worth of diamond rings. Two men on the opposite side of tho street witnessed the robbery, but did not intervene. SHIPYARD DISPUTE. ' London, July 15. In connection with tho shipbuilding disputo, the riveterß on the Clyde are dissatisfied with the pooled vote of tho different Bcotions, and have resolved to 1 insist on a 5 per cent, advanco or they will strike in August next. MURDER OP CHINESE. Darwin, July 15. An aboriginal named Koppio has been executed for the murder of tiro Chinese, whose bodies were found benjeath tho ruins of a shed at Pink Creek on December 3 last. Two other natives had been under sentence for the crime. LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. London, July 15. Mrs. Cornwallis-West, who secured a divorce from her husband, resumes the name of Lady Randolph Churchill. [Mrs. Cornwallis-West, mother of Mt. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is American-lorn. Her first husband, Lord Randolph Churchill, died in 1895, and in 1900 she married Mr. George Cornwallis-West.] . THE PRINCE OP WALES. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July'lG, 7.20 p.m.) Berlin, July IG. H.R.H. the Prince of Walos, who is at present touring Germany in a motor-car, has arrived at Leipzig. ■A TIRO BOMB-THROWERS. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July IG, 7.20 p.m.) Berlin, July 16. At an aeroplane bomb-throwing competition at Kiel, Lieutenant Schwab was tho only competitor to hit the mark. BIG STEEL COMBINE. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July IG, 7.20 p.m.) New York, July IG. It is reported that the Whittaker, Glessiner, Labelle, and Wheeling Steel Companies are amalgamating with a combined capital of ,£8,000,000. A BIG WATERPLANE. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July 15. Mr. S. F. Cody has built a waterplane, which is tho biggest in England. Tho wings are sixty feet across. LONDON'S PAUPERS. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July 15. The pauper population of London numbers 98,298.