GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association— CopyKgnt —. . KING WINS TWENTY-ONE PRIZES. London, December 10. Tho King won three special prizes, four firsts, eight seconds, and six thirds, at Islington Cattle Show. QUEENSLAND MINISTER RESIGNS. Brisbane, December 10. Mr. Macartney has unexpectedly resigned the portfolio of Lands. In an interview, ho declared that neither questions of health nor business.. entered into tho matter, but he had good reason for his action. SENTENCE OF DEATH. Sydney, December 11. Arthur O'Grady, the motor mechanic who recently killed his- wife and child at Annandale after a quarrel, has been sentenced to death. - i MOVING PICTURE FATALITY. London, December 9. Through an explosion at a kinematograph entertainment at Rio de Janeiro, three peoplo were killed and many injured. . NAVAL APPOINTMENT. London, December 9. Captain Henderson, commander of H.M.S. Penguin, has been appointed to the charge of the naval establishment in Sydney. SIX GIRLS DROWNED. _ . London, December 9. Whilo girls were playing on the frozen river in Ascliaffcnburg, a "town in Bavaria, on the Main, the ice broke, and six of them' were drowned.

INDIGNANT TRADE UNIONS. London, December 9. Trade nnionist societies officially deny Viscount Wolmer's statement in the House of Commons on- the Trades Union Bill that trades union ballots are irregularly conducted.