GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1703, 20 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

PETROLEUM WELLS ON FIRE, Bucharest, March 19. Tho petroleum wells at Banamoreni have been burnt, i Soven persons were caught in tho flames and are dying, and many others are severely wounded. SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE. London, March 19. Mr. W. A. Holman, Attorney-General ■of New South Wales, in the course of an interview with a representative of the "Morning Post," justified the State's action in resuming 'the Sydney Government House; ji the Commonwealth had failed to make l proper provision for tho Governor-General in Sydney,- tho responsibility was not New South Wales's,

FIJI HURRICANE... Suva, March 19. Advices from outside centres are reassuring, and show that the hurricnno mainly affected Suva and Rewa. The banana planters aro the chief losers, PRISONERS SENTENCED. Sydney, March 19. William James has been sentenced to nine months for v tho manslaughter 'of Ralph Chambers , in February. Hugh Duncan, aged sixteen, was found guilty of the murder of John Connolly in November, and recommended to mercy on account of deficiency of intellect. Ho was sentenced to death. ' LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY. , Lflndon, March 18. _ Many' references wero made to the Livingstone centenary in the various centres. Lord Curzon delivered an culogium before the Royal Geographical Society's commemoration, meeting. DAIRY PRODUCE PRIZES. London, March 18. The London Dairy Show pommittco is offering prizes for-coloured and uncoloured colonial cheese, also for' collections of dairy produce.

DEATH OF A DANCER, .' . London, ilarch 181 The Southampton polioe lmv© nothini' to support the theory of foul play in connection with the death of Frances Leslie, an American dancer, who was found dead on board the steamer Oceanic when entering Southampton, and whoso parents su:s- - foul play and requested an inquest. ■ * ' • ENTOMBED MINERS RELEASED., London, March 18. The two Townhead miners'who were entombed by an inrush of water havo beou rescued. VALUABLE JEWELS STOLEN. Berlin, March 18. Swindlers induced a Russian lady to entrust them with her handbag containing jewels worth whilst she visited a, kincmatograph show. They then decampcd. ' ! CHARGE OF ESPIONAGE. Berlin, March 18. • A JVi-enchman named Uergmann has been arrested at Metz on a chargo of espionage. SALE OF A THEATRE. Sydney, March 19. Mr. John Wren, of Melbourne, has purchased the Criterion Theatre for FIRES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, March 19. The fire at Lismore destroyed five shops, The damage is set down at J35000. . ' A fire at Coonamblo destroyed eevo-A, shops. - '