GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

8y Telegraph—Press Assectetion-OcipjTJijlit SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY. (Rec November 18, :0,5 : 5 a,m.) Sydney, November 17.Urn case of smallpox was reported in the city to-day. Eighty patients now remain m juararttiifcMjve are convalescent and sixty-one are s 'coiitt»pte." OVERDUE BARQUE, Sydney, November 17, Iho Norwegian, barque Lindo, bound from Durban to.Sydney, is overdue, beiflg eigMy-t'lireo days out. The usual tune for file trip is a .■ttont'b, ALLEGED CHILD ABDUOTION. PertH, November 17, An order ■lias been granted for the extradition of Alftod Weaver, a boot manufacturer, Of tin's city, arrested' in London on a charge of having abducted Mercia Weaver, aged oigbt years, iviiqin lie claimed .as his daughter. PRAYER BOOK OE STUART PERIOD, rm. \r „. We'lboUrne r November 17. Iho MolhsoE Library has received % valuable find, consisting .of a Book of Common Prayer, dated A.D. 1G(S0, to which is added' ino ordinary service printed in 1630. It is stated tliat there aro only thruo or four copies extant. It is folio, and mis apparently liastily printed after Charles jl came to the ihrono- It bears tho arrns of Cbarlos. .' ''SEVERE HAILSTORM'. Melbourne, November 17. A severe hailstorm at Taradalo strippod tho crops and killed or injured many laaibs. One liorsoanan was caught in the-! storm and severely eat about the face I and tends.

; FRENCH OFFICER. CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE , '' , . _ Berne, November IS. ■ xi Ca fi ialn 3Pa " l attached to . she 1 reach Ministry of Avar, lias been i arrested at Geneva, oil a -shargo of esi pionago on bolialf of tlio French, to tlio i untrimojit of Switzerland, Italy, and Ger- • many. Inqairy showed, that ho iiad ■ hec-u actively co.m»futicatmg with. Sigtior 1 Menozz-i and othors engaged in. espionage in Italy. ; BRITISH INSURANCE ACT. London, November 16. ; Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech said that Mr. JJonar ; Law's suggestion regarding rotufning to , tlio voluntary system of insurance would! throw tho whole of 1 Mio tremendous intricate organisation .into tho melting pot, ■ and load to discrimination against, insured Workmen by employers. '■ CONVERT TO MOHAMMEDANISM. London, November IG. Lokl Headlpy, wlio succeeded to tho title in 19.77, married in 1567 a datiglt-. tor of tlio Row John .Blennorha.fisptt, Rector of Rymo, Dorsetshire, lins folrlowed tlio. example of 'tlio late Lord Stanley, o.f Aldmy, and been converted to Mohammedanism. INSURANCE (W~IOMESTICS. Berlin, NovSinlver IG. I'lotißQ.holtle.rs are protesting against ■the itisuraneo lafr, which comes into operation in tlio new year, and involves-; tlio insvintMO of domestics at a premium of 30s, to 405.-. per ann'uii each. The Federal Council has been urged to postpone the enforcement of tlio Act.

RE© PATH OF MRXICAN HKBELS. Mexlo'o City, jfovembor 16. Tho rebels taxeeirfed. tho Federal offifors when ttey roeaptiiml. tljo iciVn af .luni'w..—Sydney "Sim" Special.

1-J? ICXCIJ GENERAL DISMISSED. ParJS : . November 16. Tlio Council of Ministers has retired General Faario for "a.. gravo. ojfc.ivco n gainst discipline."—Sydttcy "Suii" Special. 1/OHD CHIEF .Ttil'teE OF IRELAND. London, Xovombor 16, liamn O'lln™, lord Chief Justice of jo Hi d'k resienod owing