GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1214, 24 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telesrapb—Pross Association—Copyrlebi WHARF STRIKE THREATENED. (Esc. August 24, 1.5 a.m.) Brisbane, August 23. Tho- Townsyille Waterside Workers' Union has notified tha shipping companies that'if they' continue to employ nonunionists on the whams all union labour will bo withdrawn forthwith. A serious development is expected to-morrow. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. Sydney, August 23. S. A. ( Stanley, payin? officer in th« Customs Department here, has been remanded on charges of embezzling sums of .£llsß and .£315, moneys of tho Federal Government. GERMAN SUBMARINES.Berlin. August 23. Germany has twelve completed submarines and fourteen under construction, to bo finished at tho end of 1912. (fi«c. August 23, 10.55 p.m.) Monte Video, August 23. Tho Arethusa has been refloated undamaged.

VICTORIANS IN IRELAND. :.., ; .' London, August 22. Mr. J. Murray (Premier of Victoria) nnd Sir J. W. Taverner (Agcnt-Genornl) nre visiting Ireland as tho guest's of tho Earl of Mealh and Mr. A. Birrell, Chief ■Secretary for Ireland. FATAL EXPLOSION. : Paris, August 22. Two workmen at the Mendon Aerodrome who were carrying a tube of compressed hydrogen wero killed by its explosion.

ESPERANTO CONGRESS. Brussels, August 22. A Congress of two thousand Esperantists is being held at Antwerp. There are six hundred British delegates attending the Congress. HEAVY RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES Sydney, August 23.. Incessant heavy rain has fallen since last night, and still continues. Tlio fall is now general. , PASSENGERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. Sydney, August 23. The Norddeutscher-Lloyd steamer Scydlitz is bringing forty-one steerage passengers bound on for New Zealand.

BILLIARDS. Sydney, August 23. In the billiard match between Lindrnin and Stevetnson, 18,000 up, Lindrum receiving, 4000, the score stands:— Lindruin, 7498; Stevenson, 4258. Stevenson has struck form. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. Melbourne, August 23. Mr. Fisher, Federal Premier, estimates that it will be Jen years before the Federal capital is ready for occupation. V MELBOURNE HARBOUR. Melbourne, August 22. The State Cabinet has adopted a soheme for deepening the entrance to Port Phillip, at a cost of .£50,000. BISHOP GRIMES. Sydney, August 22. Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, has arrived here Irom I'iji. He was shocked on hearing tho news of Cardinal Moran's death. , AN EXCITING ARREST. Sydney, August 22. A policeman arrested a man in Duncdoo after an exciting chase of eighty miles. Both men were on motor-bicycles.