GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1291, 21 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telezrapli—Press Association—Copyright «. WIRELESS IX AUSTRALIA. (Rec. November 21, 0.30 a.m.) Melbourne, November 20. The Postmaster-General intends Melbourne to be tho first wireless station, and has promised to hurry tho installation of tho Hobart station to assist Dr. Mawson's Antarctic expedition. COOL WEATHER. Sydney, November 20. There is a cool change, and a few light showers havo fallen near tho coast, PICTURE THIEF ARRESTED. London, November 19. An under forester has been arrested on a eliargo of Stealing seventy-two paintings, many of groat historic and artistic interest, missing from the famous Lust _ Schloss Chateau, Schleissheim, Havana, eight milos north of Munich. THE KIDNEY PUNCH. London, November 19. At an inquest concerning the death of Timothy Atkinson, a Bermondsey professional boxer, tho Coroner remarked that tho National Sporting Club rules ought to prohibit the kidney punch. TRAITOR GETS TWENTY YEARS. Paris, November 19. Corporal Deschamps was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for stealing a Mitrailleuse and selling it to Germany. SHAW-SAVILL SAILERS SOLD. London, November 19. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company has sold the sailers Liudficld, Pharos, and Gladys to Norwegiau shipowners. NO REAL LOSS. Capo Town, November 19. The report of the commission appointed to inquire regarding tho alleged loss of gold from tho East Rand mine, states thero has been no veal loss; there was only a discrepancy in tho calculations, duo to tho omission of certain factors.

SCIENTISTS MASSACRED. . Paris, November 19. According to the newspaper "Lc Matin" Surgeon-Major Legondre, Captain Noir, and Lieutenant Dessirier, who had been conducting a scientific expedition in remote parts of Southern China, were massacred by Lolos, a race of aborigines. FRENCH POSTAL ADMINISTRATION. Paris, November 10. A non-official committee, consisting of sixty-livo Senators ami members of tho Chamber of Deputies, shipping, and commercial men, and journalists, has been appointed to deal with complaints regarding postal administration and make suggestions. MR. BON All LAW'S SPEECH. London, November 19. Mr. A. J. Balfour, ex-Leader ,of tho Unionist parly, in a message to tho Unionist Conference at Leeds, congratulated Mr. A. Sonar Law, tho new Leader, on his recent great speech. ANOTHER BRITISH BATTLESHIP. London, November 19. Mrs. Churchill, wife of tho First Lord of the Admiralty, to-day launched tho new battleship Centurion at Devonport. f'fho Centurion will have a displacement of 23,000 tons, n horse-power of 27,000, and a speed of 21 knots.] LITII.GOW IRONWORKS. Sydney, November 20. Commenting on the report of Mr. Paul, tho Royal Commissioner, on the iron bounty paid to Messrs. lfoskins, of the Lithgow ironworks, Mr. Hoskins declares that he has been unnecessarily harassed. It is the universal custom to use slag in tho manufacture of pig-iron. ■FRENCH SOLDIERS SENTENCED. Paris, November 1!). A number of gunners and infantrymen were sentenced in three weeks' imprisonment for cowardice in abandoning their arms during a panic caused by a bolting horse and the cries of "A bomb!" at tho funeral of (lie victims of the explosion on tho battleship Liberie. VIOLATING NEUTRALITY LAWS. New York, November 10. General Reyes was arrested at San Antonio, Texas, ou a charge of violating (ho United States neutrality laws. The particulars are not slated. EX-PRESIDENT CASTRO. London, November V. l . Tho Venezuelan Consulate has been advised (hat ex-President Castro, who attempted an invasion of Venezuela, was defeated nt San Cristobal, '-10 miles norlh-easterly-norlh of Bogota. NEW SOUTH WALES CROPS. Sydney, November 20. The latest rcporls show that the wheat crops in soino of the early-harvested districts show excellent returns. SUICIDK 01' A MISSIONED. Melbourne, November 20. Soong, :i Chinese niisMoiier, hanged himself in a Chinese Methodist Church. VICTORIA STATU E l I XTION'S. Melbourne, November 20. The result of the seeond count in one rlectcratu Inn stiJl to conic. The position is .unclumgcd.