GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1924, 5 December 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Tclcsra.pU—Frees Association-Copyright SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY. . (Rec. December !>, l-lo a.m.) SytlnSy, December <1. One ease of smallpox was reported in tho city to-day, and one at Cnolah. LILLAII M'CARTHY AN HEIRESS. Lontfon, December 3. Daniel M'Carthy . and Miss Liliab M'Carthy, the '.veil-known actress, have inherited £50,000 a-pio;c from 'theif father. WOMEN'S VOTE IN AMERICA. Washington, December 3. The Women's National Suffrage Convention is much disappointed over President Wilson's failure to introduce tho suffrage question in his Message to Congress. PATIIANS' REVENGE. Dslfli, December 2. Two l'atlums have been sentenced to death at Jhelum (in tho Pmijauh) for murdering Laneo-Corpnral Bartlott, of the '17th Lancers, in the Wazirabad train, in revenge for the, death of a notorious Pathan ri!lc thief killed by the military in 1008. JAPAN'S KICK CROP. Toiuo, December 2. Tho final estimate of the Japanese rice crop is that it will bu 1 per cent, below normal. NEW SOUTH WALES POPULATION. Sydney, December 3. The population of New South Wales at the end of September was 1,823,i21. 11. M. S. ~PH 1L OMEL. Brisbane, December 3. Tiie warship Philomel has sailed for New Zealand. "GREAT SNAKES!" Paris, December i>. A stampedo was caused at an underground station by tlio discovery of a package on the platform, which, was declared to contain a boa-constrictor. The passengers fought for precedence at the exits. The police wore simuno nod, and StUHS hod the creature's head with a sledge-hammer. It was subsequently found that the snake was a stuffed one, being returned from the taxidermist's.' —Sydney "Sim" Special. OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE. Leilllan, December 3. In connection with the ease of Dr. DiiiincU, an insurance panel doctor, sit Wisbeek. Cambridgeshire, who was in October iTiimiided <01 a charge of criminal libel, on She information of the local cliairoian of I lie British ."iiedical Assoeialion. and was found dead in his bed, il has been found (lull death was duo to an oiordnsc of morphine. A; tho inquest a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned. STORKS EUR THE JIACQPAIUKS. Sydney, December I. A wheiess message from the Aurora ennrmnees Ilia! nil the stores have been landed safely at Macqnarie Island. Till'; CASH OK ALKItKI) WEAVER. ■London, December 3. Alfred Weaver, who is charged with abducting bis eight-year-old (laughter Mereie, and who has been ordered to lie extradited to I'erih, Western Australia, baa undertaken not to interfere wiih the arrangements to entrust tile child to Iho care of a lady going to Australia. THE I'LAY OK "HAMLET." I.OiKiesi, December 3. Marginal notes made by Gabriel Harvey, the famous Elizabethan scholar and friend of Herbert Spencer, and edited by Professor .Moore Smith, suggest very strongly iliat "Hamlet" in its first unrevised form was produced not earlier I linn the end of l.j'ifS, mid not later than the beginning of I(3ol.—Svduev "Sun" Special. VICTOR IA N LEG ISLATURE. MeSbjurno, December -I. The lion. Thomas Langdon (member for Kcronp), aged £2 (and one of the oldest members of the Slate Legislature), b.e.s been elected Chairman of Commiitees in the Victorian Assembly. (Ho was Minister without portfolio from February, l!!0l, to January, 1!H)7, and for a brief period Chief Secretary. He is president of the Council of Agricultural Education.]