GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 897, 17 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—l'rcm Association-Copyright,

DYERS AND THEIR WAGES. (Rec. August IG, 10.25 p.m.) London, August IG. The National Society of Dyers has demanded an advance of three shillings in the'weekly wage, together with a- 54hours' week. The present wages paid in Yorkshire aro 21s. per week.

TOURISTS BURNT OUT. Vienna, August 16. The luxurious Karersee Hotel, in the Southern Tyrol, has been burnt. Five hundred visitors, including many English and American society leaders, were staying at the hotel. They escaped, but were without shelter for hours awaiting tho arrival of conveyances to I3otzeu.

CLOSER SETTLEMENT. Sydney, August 16. The Legislative Assembly has approved the purchase of three estates, / aggregating about twenty-five thousand acres, for closer settlement purposes. ■P..AND 0. LINER REFLOATED. Rome, August 15. The P. and 0. Steam Navigation Compnny's steamer Oceana, which went ashore at Cape Faro, Messina, while on her way to Bombay, was towed oil' by an Italian man-o'-war.

ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECKING. ' Melbourne, August IG. A deliberate attempt was made to wreck a Warburton passenger train. A sleeper had been placed on the line, but it was knocked.aside by tho engine.

THE IRONBARK TRAGEDY. Melbourne, August 16. The father of Camelia M'Cluskey, who recently murdered her three children and tried to commit suicide, at Ironbark, near Beudigo, has written to tho police stating that when slip was a child she met with a serious accident to her head. BARQUENTINE LOST. ■ * Sydney, August 15. The barquentine Ilelga, which sprang a leak and was run ashore near Honolulu, is now a total wreck. PRIEST AS BOROUGH COUNCILLOR, Melbourne, August 16. A Catholio priest has been elected a councillor for Smythedalo.