GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1029, 19 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Teli-sraph-Prcsa Asscciation-Copyrlilit.

MR. LLOYD-GEORGE. (Eec. January 18, 0.50 p.m.) London, January 18. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has been unwell for some time, is progressing favourably. : BU.I'NED TO DEATH.' Adelaide, January IS. Hong-Kong files report that a fire occurred on January 2. Pour women and fivo children, whoso escape was cut off by a burning staircase, wore burned to death. FIRE AT ADELAIDE. Adelaide, January 18. A fire destroyed Fischer's largo saddlery premises in Huidley Street. The damage, estimated at <£8000, is covered by insurance. & NEW SOUTH WALES WRECKS. Sydney, January 18. Tho Navigation .. Department's report shows that six wrecks occurred on the New South Wales coast last year, and that two lives were lost in them. The vessels were valued at .£178,000;'

"IMPENITENT REACTIONARIES." Lisbon, January 18. Colonel Machado, Minister for Foreign Affairs, attributes to impenitent reactionaries tho rumours anticipating foreign intervention in Portugal. THE GERMAN. EMPIRE.. Berlin, January 18. There 'is great jubilation in Germany at the fortieth anniversary of the proclamation of tho Empire, GERMAN FOREIGN TRADE. Berlin, January 18. . Germany's imports in 1010 amounted to .£130,150,000, and the exports to .£373,359,000. CANADIAN LUMBER. Ottawa, January 18. The lumbermen' aro urging Sir Wilfred Laurier to include lumber in nny preference agreement which may be arranged with Australia. ,

MINE ENGINEERS' CERTIFICATES. London, January 18. Mr. E. Kilburn Scott, Lecturer in Engineering at Sydney University,, in a paper before the Mining and Electrical Enginoers' Association, on the use of elec-: tricity in New South Wales collieries, argutd that when mine electricians' certificates. were granted in Britain there should be a reciprocal recognition of colonial certificates. WHITE SEA FISHERIES. London, January 17. As British trawlers take sixty thousand tons of plaice from tho White Sea annually, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, insists on tho maintenance of a three-milo limit, in place of the proposed twelve-mile reservations. AN ORB OF. EMPIRE. London, January. 17. The newspaper "Globe" says that if, to mark tho Coronation, an orb, tho emblem of empire, wero delivered to tho King, through the hands of bis subjects beyond tho seas, it'would bo an act in the highest degree appropriate and symbolic. Sydney, January 18. Claims totalling .850,000 have been made against the Railway Commissioners in connection with the bush fires in tho Albury district. Sydney, January 18.' The City Council negatived a motion to increase the Lord Mayor's allowance from .£IOOO to ,£ISOO. The proposal was made on tho ground that tho calls upon the occupant of the chair are' much heavier now than in past years. Sydney, January 18. In tho Divorce Court last year 457 petitions were filed in New South Wales. Oiio hundred and ninetv-one of this number were undefended, fifty-fivo defended cases were tried, and there are ninety-nine still to be tried. Hobart, January 18. Irish blight has been discovered in potatoes on two separate farms.