GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Ify Telegraph—Pie'-s Afoociation-Oopyrighv i . * SMALLPOX. Sydnoy, July 8 Two inmates of the Liverpool Asylum aro down with smallpox ' . (Rec. July 9,-1 a.m.) Sydney, Julj 8. Another fiesh case of smallpox is repoited' NS W LIBERAL ASSOCIATION. Sydney, .Tuly 8. i The sjxth annual conference or tho New 'South "Wales Liberal Association is sitting here. > bubonTc~plague ■ N \ London, July 7. Bubonic plague has broken out *in New Orleans Two of the patients aro dead, and three othcis aro in hospital i Hong-Kong July 7 Twenty cases of bubonic p'lague were recorded last week, there were sixteen aoatlis , DEFENCE AGAINST AIRCRAFT 1 London, July 7. A series of towers, aimed with quickfirers as a defence 1 against aircraft aie being erected around PottsinoutL Harbour and ohcwhcie on the coast KABBITERS FIND GOLD - ' Melbourne;' July 8 Rabbitcrs found atwentj-ounce nugKet on old-time allmial ground at Bnnin\ong, and subsequently an outcrop of payable quaitz'was discovered

COVENT GARDEN ESTATE. , London, July 6. Mr.' Mallaby-Deoley transferred the Covent Garden ' Estate to Sir Joseph Beccham ,aud Mr. Alexander Ormrod, a- Manchester stockbroker. accused~a"cquitted. / ' London, July 6. Mr. Crossland,'tho author, uho -nith Lord Alfred Douglas, was charged nith conspiracy, it being alleged that, in reiciige for the publication of,' Mr. Ransome's book about tho ,lato Oscar Wilde, the accused 1 and Lord Alfred Rouulns conspired to accuse Mr. Baldwin Ross of a crime, has been "acquitted OPERATION ON COLIN BELL. 1 London, July 6. An operation, which was'satisfactory, was pel formed on Colin Bell,, the Australian bo;cer. ' ''' / ARMY CONTRACTORS. ' , London, July 7. Liplon's firm has been removed from tho list of Army contractors. I EMPIRE TRADE MARK. London, July 7. | Mr. T Macken7io (High Commissioner r or New Zealand) attended a de. putation to the Board of Trade in support of the British Empiro Trade-mark. EMPRESS OF IRELAND FUNDS. London.i July 7. , The combined Empics* of Ireland funds total, £88,000. A DOUBTFUL STORY. London, July 6. . A man named Robbins .sunendcied himself to tho police. Ho stated that, ho had strangled a girl named Minnio Stevenson, in Port Melbourne, about seven ago. Robbins has been drinking, but seemed sensible; previously he had been found wandeiing about Whitechapol. v Tho Melbourne poliro have no recoid of the cnmc and doubt the story. STRIKE OF DOCTORS. Berlin, July 7. Tho insuranco doctors at tho Niedbarniin, near Berlin, have struck for an increase of pay by fifty per centum. '

ANOTHER AVIaTOB KILLED

Paris, July 7. M., Legiicneux, looping the loop at Snumur, fpll_ into the river Loire, am' died from h ! s injuries.

pbofessobTop music. , ' Melbourne, July 7. The Melbourne University authotv tie? have apponited Mi. Marshall Hall to lh<* Oi mond Profiissornhip of Music.