GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1868, 30 September 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright EMPIRE SCHOOL ESSAYS. "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. September 29, 7.25 p.m.) London, September 29. Tho subject of the 1914 Empire Day School Competitions, is, for the senior candidates. "Some Talo of Travel or Discovery Within the Empire" ; for tlio juniors, "The Food on the Breakfast Table —Whence it Came and How it was Produced." ALCOHOL AND APPENDICITIS. ■ "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. September 29, 7.25 p.m.) Paris, September 29. The medical press asserts that teetotallers are moro liable than non-tee-totallers to appendicitis, the alcohol acting as an eupeptic prophylactic (aid to good digestion)'? One in every ten wator drinkers, .it' is asserted, are prodisposed to appendicitis, as against only one in two hundred non-teeto-tallers.

DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN QUEBEC. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. September 29, 7.25 p.m.) Ottawa,' September 29. As the result of a fire which broke out in a tencmeiit-liouse .in Quebco, eight children wore killed, while their father and mother, and two othors, were terribly injured. FOUNDER OF AUSTRALIAN. ' CHURCH RESIGNS. . (Rec. September -29, 8.15 p.m.) , Sydney, September 29. The Rev. Charles Strong, D.D., resigned charge of tlio Australian Church in Melbourne, which he founded in 1885. . Dr. Strong is a native of Scotland (Ayrshire, Scotland, 1814), and took his degree of doctor of-divinity at Glasgow University. He was formerly minister of tho Old West Parish Church, Greenock, Anderson Parish Church, Glasgow, and of Scots' Church, Melbourne (1575-18S4). ARMED MERCHANTMEN. (Ree. September 29, 11.30 p.m.) London, September 29. Twenty-two merchantmen, including twelve in the Australian and New Zealand trade, have now been armed. The estimated capacity of theso armed tarndors is, by way of illustration, 2J milliou carcases of mutton.

SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY. (Rec. September 30, 1.5 a.m.) Sydney, September 29. Six smallpox cases were reported today, and one suspected case at Grafton. AN HOTEL TRAGEDY. Hobart, September 29. During an altercation outsido an hotel on Saturday night, a man named T. Howard produced a revolver, which went off. Another man, Henry Ahern, foil, shot in the chest seriously. It is not known whether the revolver exploded accidentally. Howard has been arrested.

A MIGHTY HUNTER. Brlsbano, September 28. - Baron Nicolas, a Hungarian nobleman, has arrived from a shooting trip in China.. Ho intended to go into the interior as far as the Tibetan border, but stopped because of the recent revolution. Next year he will try again. Baron Nicholas is a noted hunter of big game. He has visited every corner of the earth, with the exception of New Zealand and South America. FATALITY AT FRENCH HARBOUR WORKS. Paris, September 28. A compressed-air caisson at the harbour works at Lorient burst, and sank in ten minutes. Seven men were rescued in a precarious condition; three were dead. INDIAN BANK FAILURES. Delhi, September 28. In connection with tho failure of tho native banks in India, tho Bank of I'cshawur's Indian manager has been suspended. KING CONSTANTINE. London, September 28. King Constantino of Greece, who is now in London, has visited Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at the Foreign Ofiico. COASTAL STEAMER ASHORE. Sydney, September 29. The coastal steamer Knllatina, 550 tons, belonging to the North Coast S.N. Company, during a south-easterly gala went ashore at Woolgoola. There were 110 passpngers aboard. The crew is safe. The vessel may get off.

RADIUM "MESOTIIORIUM." Berlin, September, 28. The State Governments, municipalities, hospitals, and private philnntliopists' arc competing to secure a mcsotlmrium useful ill a lesser degree for all remedies effected by radium. Public subscriptions are to be raised throughout the country. There aro only four German factories, and tlio production has been allocated up to the end of *°14