GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press-Copyright

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1316, 20 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press-Copyright

TOWERFUL LEAVES SYDNEY. (Rec. December 20, 0.15 a.m.) Sydney, December 19. H.M.S. Powerful, tho flagship on the Australasian station, has finally departed for Portsmouth. Admiral Sir G. F. KingHall accompanies her to Hobart, where he will await the arrival of H.M.S. Drake, the new flagship. wheatlurket. (Rec. December 20, 0.15 a.m.) Sydney, December 19. Wheat is easier, and is quoted at a half-penny lower. The Government Statist's latest estimate of the wheat yield is 23,372,000 bushels, an average of 10.31 bushels to the acre. UP-TO-DATE ADVERTISING. London, December 18. The Federal High Commissioner, Sir George Reid, has arranged for combined gramophone and kinematograph lectures in tho schools. Ho has delivered addresses on the resources of Australia into gramophones for tha purpose. JESSOP MAY GO TO AUSTRALIA. London, December 19. Mr. G. L. Jcssop has resigned tho secretaryship of tho Gloucester Cricket Club, and will probably proceed to Australia later. ..--.,. A LONG TOW. Sydney, December 19. H.M.S. Psyche, with ff.'M'.S. Torch in low, lias arrived here from Noumea. Tho Torch recently lost her propeller off the coast of New Caledonia. A BANKER SENTENCED. London, December IS. A. W. Carpenter, of the Charing Cross Bank, who was committed for trial on a charge of obtaining JCSOO by means of a falso prospectus two days before his bankruptcy, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the second division. THE VALENCIA RIOTS. Madrid, December 18. The court-martial at Sueca, in Valencia, sentenced ten rioter.? to penal servitude for twenty years, one for life, and others to various terms. WRECK OF THE BROOKLYN. Sydney'; December 19. The whole of the cargo of the coastal steamer Brooklyn, wrecked at Crookhaven Heads on the south coast, has been saved. The vessel has been handed over to the underwriters. MOUNT LYELL DISPUTE. Melbourne, December 19. The conference between the representatives of the-Mount Lyell Company and the miners' delegates ended abruptly without a settlement.