CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1872, 4 October 1913, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Telegraph—Presa Association—Oopyricht London, October 2. By an explosion in the Ragclio Tunnel, on the Bagdad railway, near Adana, twenty-two workmen wore' killed and «levcn injured. ITondon, October 3. Immaculately dressed, a Brazilian was arrested and charged at Bow Street Police Court with failing to pay his hotel bill of £10, incurred in Switzerland. The police found a cablegram in his pookst, addressed from Buenos Ayres, informing him that ho had inherited £40,000.— Sydnoy "Sun" Speoial. London, Ootober 3. The British rights of the "Anthony and Cleopatra" film have been sold for £8500 in the. auction rooms, with a three years' right of retail-. In eighteen months the "Quo Vadis" film has already produced £30,000. London, October 2. The underwriters arc to receive 56 per cent, of the Canadian £3,000,000 4 per cent. loan. London, October 2. Tho Admiralty and tho War Office are testing a new gun, fired by moanß of carbonic acid gas. It is expeoted to be especially suitable for India and the East. London, October 2. A branch of the Wattle Loague has been established in London. It celebrates Australia's foundation day. Peking, October 2. Tho Chinese Parliament has decided to elect a President every fivo years. London, October 2. It is officially asserted that ex-King Manoel and his wife aro coming to England at an early date. (Reo. October 4, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, October 3. Two cases of smallpox were rcportol to-day. Mr. A. H. Burton, of Dunedin, lias bocn ap]wintcd judge of tho elocutionary section of the .second annual festival of tho Westland Competitions Society, to bo bold in Hokitika, in Mwoh asst.