GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1284, 13 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telecraph-Press Association-Oonyriffht — $ — DROWNING ACCIDENT. (Rec. November 12, 5.5 p.m.) nt m Sj & ney J Norember 12. Doctor Murray Woods, a prominent Sydney medical man, was drowned while suning. CITY OF SYDNEY LOAN. Ti r<-«. n Sydney, November 11. In™ & C , onnc,l ls floating a .£360,000 loan at 3 7-Sd. per centum interest. BRITISH INSURANCE BILL. T , . , . London, November 10. It is understood that Mr. Lloyd-George Chancellor of tho Exchequer, will concede to Scotland, equally with Ireland separate admimstration under the InsurNEW AUSTRALIAN WHEAT. Ti,« fi (• t, , Sy » ney ' November 11. Ine first truck of the new season's wheat sold at 3s. 10d. per bushel. The gram was above the f.a.q. standard; market 16 PnC6 " S M guido to th ° A NEW GAS COMPANY. ~ ..' Sydney, November 11. At a meeting of the Radium Gas Companv, it was stated that representatives 7nnlnmlT^ ny, ™" to New /.nalniHl to form a comply for tho purchase of tho patent rights there. ADDRESS-IN-REPLY ADOPTED. *i ' t •, ■• Per{h > November 11 hM *** BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA. ' Melbourne, November 11. ~8 ,' 3 1, fi«s devastated a- largo area of trict C ° Untry !U ' th ° w »JPonp di™

HEAT IN AUSTRALIA. Tf i. a l , Perth ' November 11. Western Australia is experiencing a heat wave. There have been numerous records ot over lOfl degrees. QUEENSLAND DROUGHT. Brisbane, November 11. Oipng to the drought, tho Lake's Creek meat works have beon closed for the first time for ten years. Four hundred persons have been rendered idle. MUItDERER ESCAPES. ■ Vienna, November 10. Sieznski, the murderer of Count Potocki, Governor of Galicia in 1903, has escaped from prison. SUICIDE IN A HOTEL. Seattle, November 10. It transpires that tho man who shot himself in a New York hotel is not, as was at first believed, Lord Sholto Douglas, who has been residing at Seattle for many years, and who is still alive. The body of the man who shot himself ho 3 not yot boon identified.