GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Frees Aesoolation—OopyrlEht PRISONERS LEAP FROM A ■ STEAMER. Now York, October 1. . ' Four men who wero about to be dfe« ported aboard a steamer to Franca, ■leaped 40 feet from tho steamer's dock into tho waters of tho Hudson and were drowned. Guards stationed outside tho vessel's omorgcncy cells saw nothing. THE GELIGNITE AFFAIR. ' [ (Rco. October 2, 10.40 p.m.) Sydney, Octobor 2. Walter Merrifield, who, on August 0 was committed for trial at Newcastle oil a charge of murdering his partner, • Clarence Hefford. by causing an explosion of gelignite in a room where Hefford was sleeping, lias been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenooa to six months' hard labour. J. C. WILLIAMSON'S ESTATE. (Rec. October 2, 8.60 p.m.) Sydney, October 2. ' Tho New South Wulos estate of tha late Mr. J. C. Williamson has been 1 sworn at £193,038. EX-KING MANOEL'S BRIDE. Vienna, October 1. 1 Court circles do not beliovo that anything beyond a nominal reconciliation will take place between ox-King Manool and his wife, in viow of tho incompatibility of thoir tempers. BRITISH STEAMER 'WRECKED. ; (Reo. Octobor 3, 0.10 a.m.) 1 Portland (Orogon), October 2. ! The British steamer Gelnesseln pound- ' ed herself to pieces on tho rocks near the shore, in the vicinity of precipitous \ cliffs of the Necarney mountains. Th« ' villagors rescued her crow of twenty» 1 five. ENGLISH CHIEF JUSTICESHIP. (Reo. October 2, 6.10 p.m.) London, Octobor 2. Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attorney-General), •denies tho rumour that he is about to bo appointed to tho Chief Justiceship.—< Sydney "Sun" Special. H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. ' Times" —Sydney "Sun" Spocial Cables,. Valparaiso, Octobnr 1. Tho battle-cruiser New Zealand had sailed for I'unta Arenas, Costa Rica. AUSTRALASIAN FJUENDLY SOCIETIES. Sydnoy, October 2. i At tho lutcr-Slato Friendly Societies' , Conforenco a return . showed that tha total funds of tho societies in Austra- • lasia wero £7,30-1,013, of which amount ■ New Zealand's share was £1,553,339. , AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS IN LONDON, London, Octobor 1. > Arthur Stroeton, .lamos Quimi, Ar- ■ thur Burgess, Tim Roberts, Julian Ashton, Albeit Fullwood, and Joel (Australian artists) aro exhibiting aj> tho Royal Sooioty of Oils exhibition. London, October 2. A man has been fined £1 at Highgato' for driving a funeral motor hearse at thirty miles an hour.—Sydnoy "Sun 1 ' Special. i Tho marriages in Victoria last yeai i totalled 11,738, the highest on record. Tho birth rate was 20.40 por thousand against 25.1 L in tho previous yoar. Tho J dfiith -rato.-wae. 12.25, pgauyt .11,52,