GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 14 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Bj Telegraph-Press Asßociation-Coojiieln • — $ , MOUNT LYELL STRIKE. Hobart, December' 13. Une furnace has been blown in at tho Mount Lyell reduction works. Operations have liccn resumed. The supply of labour is very limited. EN ROUTE TO NEW ZEALAND. it r rr f i r( > m an"<V December 13. Jlr. J. Hayolocfc Wilson, president of tho National Sailors' and Firemen's Onion, is a passenger by the steamer Omnia from England. Ho is proceeding to the Rotorna Springs for health reasons, and afterwards will address meetings in Australia. AUSTRALIAN POSTAL RATES. '„ , Melbourne, December 13.' Tho, lederal Government has approved of a regulation allowing postcards wholly printed. to be transmitted by post for a halfpenny each.

SYDNEY WHARF LABOURERS' DISPUTE.. _~ . , Sydney, December 13. Hie special Board of Inquiry into the wharf labourers' trouble has concluded its sittings. The Board's decision has been reserved. SHIP'S OFFICER SHOT DEAD. Brisbane, December 14. Ihc chief officer of the Japanese mail steamer Shimyo Maru was shot dead by the accidental explosion of a gun which one of the crew was' cleaning. The victim was a Japanese. COMMONWEALTH POLITICS. Melbourne, December 13. The House has passed the Month's Supply-Bill, and.is.making slow progress with the Tariff Bill. WELL-KNOWN CRICKETER DEAD. ml ' Sydney, December 13. The death is announced of Mr. R. A. Duff, a prominent international cricketer, aged 33. Ho had been ailing for some time. DAVIS CUP CONTEST. Sydney, December 13. Dunlop sailed for New Zealand to-day in the Ulimaroa, to tako part in the Davis Cup contest. SIR JOSEPH HOOKER, London, December 12. The Dean of Westminster has offered interment for Sir Joseph Hooker, the famous botanist, in tho'Ahbey, on condition that tho remains aro previously cremated. QUINLAN OPERA COMPANY. London, December 12. Mr. Quinlan, who is taking an opera companyto Australia, has engaged Miss Agnes Nicholls for Wagnerian roles. HOME SAFES FOR SAVING. London, December 12. Tho Post Office is issuing homo safes in connection with tho Savings Bank. Twenty thousand have been issued in London alone in two days. A NEW PRINCESS FOR SPAIN. Madrid, December 12. Queeij Ena of Spain has given birth to a daughter. Her Majosty, who was Princess Ena of Battenberg, has already two sons and a daughter. THE SOCOTRA WRECK. Bombay, December 12, The missing officers and crew (39 in all) of tho .simmer Kuala, wrecked at I Socotra, havo landed at Singapore.

CANADIIN LINER REFLOATED. Tokio, December 12. Tho steamer Empress of China, belonging to the Canadian. Pacific Railway Company, which, in July last, stranded on a rock at the, southern point of the Am Peninsula, has boon refloated. ONTARIO ELECTIONS. _ ~ , Toronto, Docember 12. Ihe Ontario elections are over. The Whitney Government lias been returned to power by an overwhelming majority. . Liberals mado a net gain of six seats. Tho chief election nfank was a hydro-olectric system throughout the province. Tho Conservatives have a majority