Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 217, 16 December 1909, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

COTTON* SHORTAGE. London, December 12. Router's Agency reports wild scenes on the cotton exchange in New York when the agricultural bureau report announced that the crop was 200,000 bales below expectations. Prices rose 45 points. The New Orleans exchange was equally excited. WHOLESALE MURDER. Marseilles, December 12. fi As a result of a dispute over money matters,a Marseilles publican shot his wife with a revolver, and cut the throats of three of bis children. He mortally wounded an elder daughter and an assistant and finally committed suicide. DR COOK DISAPPEARS. London, December 12. The "Times" reports that after a diligent search interviewers, who desired to see Dr Cook, failed to discover him. RAILWAY SHOPS BURNED. Perth, December 12. The Midland Junction railway workshops, which cover a large area, and the contents of which included 2-i corridor cars, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at between £IO,OOO and £50,000. The cause of the fire is unknown, buit is supposed to be spontaneous combustion. The Railway Commissioners decided a week ago, owing to the high rates charged, not to renew the fire insurances, and the whole loss thus falls tlpon the Department. UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL. London, December 12. In the inter-University football match, Oxford scored four goals and five tries (35 points) and Cambridge one try (3 points). G. Chapman, of New Zealand played for Cambridge, and Colin Gilray, one of the New Zealand Rhodes scholars, for Oxford. IMPERIAL COMMERCE COUNCIL. London, December 12. Sir Albert Spicer, President of the Congress of Chambers of Commerce, has invited the London Chamber of Commerce to consider the questoin of the promotion of an Imperial Council. He deplores the tendency, which is having its effect in Australia, to emphasise the decadence of British commerce, and urges the necessity for dispelling this impression.

He declared that British commerce was adapting itself not only to the requirementsi of the Empire, but of the whole world.

LAWN TENNIS. Melbourne, December 13. After good contests the Americans were defeated both in the single and double tennis maches by the Victorians on Saturday. Dunlop beat Long, 6 —l, 63 —; Heath beat McLaughlin 10—8, 7—5; and Dunlop and Heath beat Long and McLaughlin 8 —6, 3 —6, 6 —3. NAVAL MUTINY. London, December 13. The "Daily Mail" states that four seamen out of 54 charged with mutinous acts aboard the cruiser Leviathan were tried today at Gibraltar. They declare that they were not the ringleaders, and, indeed, were not connected with the mutiny. Others of the men have been detailed to different ships, and some have been placed aboard the cruiser Terrible, whence they will be transferred to f be Powerful for her third commission in the Australian station.

SENSATIONAL DISAPPEARANCE, Londun, December 13.

Tbc "Daily Express" reports that a great sensation has been caused owing to the fact that Viscount Churchill's wife has not been seen since she left St. Pancras station a fortnight ago. It is understood that she consulted a spiritualist who assured her, on the advice of the spirit world that it was her duty to leave her husband and take her children away with her.

AERIAL NAVIGATION. Constantinople, December 13. M. Bleriot the French aeroplanaut, was conducting a series of flights in Constantinople today when his machine collided with the roof of a building. The aeroplane turned a somersault and Bleriot, falling to the ground from a height of 18 feet, was somewhat seriously injured, and was conveyed to the hospital.

DR. COOK'S SECRETARY. Copenhagen, December 13. Lonsdale, Dr Cook's private Secretary, wbo baa brought the proofs of Cook's polar journey to the Danish Geographical Society for investigation, states that his employer mere ly allowed Capt. Loose to read hi.s n cord. None of Loose's observation:- hf were used. Loose was <iis<-har;'- ■] far drunkenness.