GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 20 August 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Prtea Association—OopjrTlght

CRYSTAL PALACE GROUNDS. ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) (Rec. August 19, 7.5 p.m.). . London, August 19. The grounds of the Crystal Palaco are being altered so as to enable them to accommodate 150,000 people. SHOPHANDS' STRIKE, (Rec. August 20, 1.10 p.m.) Sydney,. August 19. The position with regard to the shop-, hands' strike at Broken Hill is unchanged. No information is availablo re-" carding the reported agreement reached between the Labour Federation and the shop assistants, TOLL OF THE HEAT. (Rec. August 19, 8.5 p.m.) New York, August 19. Eleven deaths have occurred in the State of Michigan' as the result of the heat wave. The temperature was continually over 100 degrees. TRAGIC END TO A MOTOR "SPIN." Sydney, August 18. Five taxi-cab drivers were taking a spin in the Domain, when tho car overturned, and one of tho drivers, All Shorn, was killed; The others wcro badly injured.

A LABOURER'S WINDFALL. (."Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.)

London, August 18. , Tunstall, tho Bolton corporation labourer, who has inherited ,£200,000 from his father-in-law,' a man namod Westwell (who was engaged in the West Australian pearl fisheries), receives the fortune' on condition that ho 'takes Westwell's naAio.

FUNERAL OF HERR BEBEL. Berne, August 18. An attendance of one hundred and fifty thousand peoplo witnessed tho funeral of Herr Bebel-, tho German Socialist'leader. There was an imposing array of Socialist delegations. Mr. Keir Hardie, British Socialist M.P. (England) delivered an address. i AUSTRALIAN WARSHIPS. Cape Town, August 19. The Australian flagship Australia and the cruiser Sydney have arrived at Cape Town, en route to their headquarters. (Rec. August 19, 8.5 p.m.) London, August 19. The fall of a derrick on board E.M.A.S. Australia, after leaving St. Vincen't,' resulted in the death of Petty Officer Holmes. BEQUEST FOR A HOSPITAL. Sydnoy, August 18. The late Mr. W. Robinson, of Fnmore, has bequeathed .£20,000 to tho Prince Alfred Hospital, subject to an annuity to his widowi CARNEGIE PEACE PALACE. ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) The Hague, August 18. Queen WilNelmina will open the Carnegie I'eaoo Palace on September 28. Every country has contributed building material to' the palaco. OLD AGE PENSIONS. (Rec. August 19, 9.20 p.m.) London, August 19. Tho Local Government Board returns state that 17.8 per 1000 of those eligible rcceivo old-ago pensions. The annual cost amounts to 948,010. Throe-fifths of the septuagenarians in England are old-age pensioners. HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE. The Hague, August 19. The Hague Peace Congress has been inaugurated. There aro over 800 delegates. DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON. Hong-Kong, August 18. A typhoon did much lravoc at Macao. A sea' wall and newly-reclaimed land near Barrn Fort collapsed. Several houses at Tarafciro were destroyed, manjr inmates being killed. A fleet of junks in the Macao roadstead wero wrecked, BJid ono hundred and fifty cQreons d^oirntyl.