GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1028, 18 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph-Press Asscciation-Oopyrit>t. — o . BRITISH LABOUR LEADERSHIP. (Rec. January 17, 10.15 p.m.) . London, January 17. The election 'of Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P. for Leicester, to the manship of tho Labour party in the House of Commons is regarded as certain. THE SELBY ABBEY REFLOATED. Amsterdam, January 17. The steamer Selby Abbey, which went ashoro at the Hook of Holland during tho recent storm, has been refloated. POPULATION, OF VIENNA. Vienna, January 17. Tho census gives a population of 2,004,291 (?), exclusive of tho garrison. Tho slowness of the increase is duo to the decline of tho birth-rate to twenty per thousand, [The "Statesman's Year Book" gives the population of Vienna in 1909 as 2,085,883.] PREMATURE EXPLOSION. Sydney, January 17. A premature explosion of gelignite in a sower shaft at Fornhill, killed a, miner and slightly injured two others. TEE POPE UNWELL. Rome, January 17.... Tho Pope has been suffering from a. violent attack of gout. His Holiness is better, but audiences have been suspended by his physician's orders. GERMAN ART TREASURES LOST. Berlin, January 17. A partial fire in tho Dresden Palace destroyed valuable pictures representing .Kings and Queens of Saxony, and also Princess Matilda's art treasures. PLAGUE IN CHINA. '' Peking, January 17. One death from plague is reported from Tienstin, and five at Yungpingfu, ' PHOSPHATE BEDS. (Rec. January 18, 1.5 a.m.) New York, January 17. Phosphate beds, believed to bo of great commercial value have been discovered in Western Montana. MRS. CARRIE NATION. , '. Ottawa, January 17. Mrs. Carrie Nation, tho temperance reformer and "saloon smasher," is seriouslv ill. . ' WHITE SEA FISHERIES. St. Petersburg, January 17. Great Britain has taken action : regarding the White' Sea Fisheries Bill, which restricts the fishing rights of foreigners in the White Sea. SALARIES OF TELEGRAPH MESSENGERS. . ■ (Rec. January IS, 0.55 a.m.) Melbourne, January 17. The Commonwealth Public Service' Commissioner is raising the commencing salary of telegraph messengers' from £ii to X' 39 per annum.. BOY LABOUR. (Rec. January 18, 0.55 a.m.) Sydney, January' 17. Mr. Beeby, Minister for Labour, has decided to'prohibit the employment of boys and girls where dangerous machinery is used. ALMOST A TRAGEDY. Ottawa, January 17. Mr. Gilbert, a French Canadian member of the Federal House, narrowly escaped asphyxiation with coat gas owing to a defective heating apparatus at his Ottawa residence. ' His family rescued him in an unconscious state. PETROLEUM IN SARAWAK.' I (Rec. January IS, 0.5 a.m.) London, January 17. The "Daily Telegraph's" Singapore correspondent states that the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company has struck oil in largo quantities at a. depth of 860 feet at Sarawak. MR. LLOYD-GEORGE ILL. London,: January 16. Tho Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, is suffering from laryngitis, and has cancelled all his engagements. STEEPLEJACK'S FATAL FALL. London, January 16. .Randolph Horsley, a steeplejack, fell from a height of 85 feet at Leeds, and was killed. TIED TO A TREE. Paris, January 16. Miller, an American, was found tied to a tree at Joinville lo Pont. Ho had been robbed of his clothes, and a thousand dollars. SPANISH SNOWSTORM ABATES. \ Madrid, January 16. The. violent snowstorm, which has been raging in the Peninsula, has abated. Its chief characteristics were its ueps, and the violent barometrical oscillations accompanying it.. ARGENTINE MAIZE CROPS. Buenos Ayres, January 10. Owing to the expected failure 'of the maize crops through (ho prolonged drought, 3800 labourers havo embarked for Europe sinco Christmas. AUSTRALIAN BANK-NOTE TAX. • Melbourne, January 17. Tho Act providing for a lax of 10 per cent, on notes issued by hanks will operate from July 1. SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETER ILL. i Melbourne, January 17. Hathorn, the South African cricketer, is ill. He has relinquished the balance of the tour, and is returning home. WRECK OF THE ROSEDALE. Sydney, January 17. The chances of salving the steamer Rosedale, which went aground in tho Bellinger River, arc very poor. ATTEMPTED TRAIN-WRECKING. Hobart, January 17. An attempt was made to wreck the Launceston mail train. A large stone was placed on the line near Hobart, but the engine struck and displaced it, . i