GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2184, 24 June 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Tftiecraphr-PreSn Aeswctati«tt-,Ojpyi!glvt A FORTUNATE ESCAPE. , Jioc- tfu.no 24:, n.35 a.m.) . . Paris, June, 23. A 'rival divur, who was endcavournij; to rceover a torpedo buriod ni tl>o- : sand at Cherbourg,' fired the torpedo, when the pionellor started and cut tho a : iipipe. T!ie diver (hitched the torpedo, intieh carried liSlfefiilCQilsci'Q'us 'to' tile s.urfaco. Ho was rescued. FRENCH LOAN. . ParMjsJitne 23; f The thirty-two • million'"' Soriiij which has just .been passed by both houses, . will bo issued on July 5Vw .' fur; PURCHASED FOR AUCKLAND. .. ■ . Sydnoy,'. June !>'». . . The Colonial Sugar Comjianv of Auck- : hind lias purchased the tiig;Sj}MlL- She leaves for Auckland under convoy of the Joan Craig, -• •'< !'f. : the Cuban sugar company. Washington,' June 22, " . .The Supreme Court has. declined- to (■•stic an injunction, teatrrujiinjj; tho Treasury Depnrtincot from granting tho Cubau, Sucar Company n twenty per centum <I''xeduo't'ifiiv in . -duty, I provided flint t,hc treaty, with tho addition of the now reduced rates, is within the Tariff Law. TWO AVIATORS KILLED St. Petersburg,' ,luno 23. WJnie ac.'.oplaiting, Lieutenant Bons> , laivsky and a. passenger fell tivo lutu- . dred feet. Both korc killed, ' .■ U MATERNITY ALLOVI ANCES. Melbourne, Juno 21 " The Commissioner of Maternity Allowances is issuing pamphlets, prepared by tho Victorian branch of (be British Medical Association, on self-earn and. t nocare of .babies to every young mother ■and prospective mother in: iho: country. [ THE TSAR'S TRAIN. 1 :Sti Petersburg;. Juno 22;; Tho railway maiiagemeilt' ' announce that thero is no reason to believe that an atteinpt was inadn to wreck the train : by winch tlio Tsar and his family travelled from Kishinelf to Tsarkoe 4 Solo. The derailed ti ail) was travelling in the : opposite direction, and the accident. occiiriod hours before tho Tsar's train jnssed.' ' EATEN BY SHARKS. Sydnoy, June 23,. • Noumean adi ices state that a European named Child and a kanaka weift ; ti.shi.ng, when their boat was capsized antl tlie two. wore 'oaten liy sliarks.. SMALLPOX Sydney, June 23s There is a case of Binailpox. at Ainiidale. CH«o. Juno. 21.-, GUcia a-. Sydney, Juno 2.3. . Another case of smallpox is. reputed ' in the; city. SUN WORSHIPPERS. ♦•Timers- end .Sydney S.uu.' BcrrlcM. Londorif June 22. . Tiicin was a riot of sun worshippers : at Stonehenge because they Were-clarfe-cri for admission to their temple, which ; is private property. The pi.lieo fought. fit tenuously to prevent dftiitiigcf ' doiie. A SPECK IN THE SKY. "Times" «ud Sydney Hcrvipw, . New York-. June 23.. The police at Los Angeles sought to attach the biplane of a Japanese exrarm.v nuator When tho ofticoia airivcd all that was visible wits a speck in the sky, representing the aviator and his. machine, ' ' 31 AILS DETAINED, Lofidon, June. 2S. A cablo message from San Salvador states that, tho .PoAtrg'iie.sd authorities the sronarios' mailt; for Gloat Biitnin. Tho Foreign Office lias nuulo repicsentatioi'B to Lisbon. ... OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL Melbourne, June £2,- : Tho Commonwealth has accepted .an, invitation for the battleship Aiistialia to participate in the opening of the Panama Canal. > .■■■ . ... ASSASSIN'S MISTAKE DCllii, June 21; . All assassin attempted 'to shoot Naroudra A'scn, approver in. the. Dacca conspirlir.y case, but Hilled his eompanioit, Satvei.dn- a Customs official. BARON HENRI ROTHSCHILD. Paris, Jutio 21. Haion Ife'.in Rothschild, who was shot in the le;; by a dairy man l.amcd Proudbon, is not in a sei'i<ius;condition. The bullet has heen extracted from Ins thigh. Proutihon beliovqi) - that ilaron Rothschild's milk depots ruinod his busineas. r, ; ... THE HOSPITAL SHIP MAINE. London, June 21. The Irosfßta.l ship Main;:.. presoldf>d, bv Amerk'au women dunns flic. ITuer »vnr. weni asbdre on the I'irth of Larue, and lias hedi.i abandoned, owing to h.er age and. tile, cost of salvaping. . The Adijiiralty will roMraiiio■■'il'ip. 'Mi:H&' ■ ator, a ueiv h.cspitol ship, the Maine, i