GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1285, 14 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright FIRE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, November 13. A fire broke out in the largo premises occupied by Messrs. Partridge and Hodgson, machinery agents, Union Paper Company, Clarence Street The firo is now in hand, 'l'ho damage is serious. ENTOMBED MINERS, RESCUE!}. Cape "Town,- fcovcmber-12. ■' Five more of the natives imprisoned in the Primrose, mino by a fall ol' rock have been rescued. [It was previously reported that four of the sixty nntivos- were killed and twenty-three injured, and that tho remainder were roscucd.] DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. Singaporo, November 12. Inspector Wyatt lias been awarded MO dollars costs against Mr. Proudlock, who wrote a letter to a London newspaper, alleging tho ill-treatment of nativo witnesses in the Proudlock murder case. [Mrs. Proudlock, wife of the headmaster of the Victoria Institution at ICuala- Lumpur, was convicted in June last of shooting a man named Stewart, and was sentenced to death. This rcntonce was commuted, and on July 9 tho Sultan of Selangor granted Mrs. Proudlock a free pnrdon.l STREET CONGESTION IN SYDNEY. Sydney, November 13. Tho retiring Lord Mayor is urging upon the Government a scheme for overcoming the congestion of the city streets, at au estimated cost of ten or twelve millions.

THE SAMOAN CHIEF TAMASESE. Sydney, November 13. The Samoan Chief Tamasese and parly, who have just Teturncd from Berlin, Tvhci'o Tamaseso did homage to tho Kaiser, have departed for Samoa. LORD CHELMSFORD RETURNS. Adelaide, November 13. Lord Chelmsford (Governor of New South Wales) and Lady Chelmsford have returned from ft visit to England. CANNON FROM COOK'S SHIP. Brisbane, November 13. A cannon, claimed to bo from Captain Cook's ship Endeavour, was touud amongst ballast in a ketch bought from a Japanese pearl shelter. Tho latter slates that black boys discovered the cannon on a reel off Cooktown.

A SWIMMING RECORD. Sydney, November 13. nardwick, competing in the 110 yards' handicap, swam the distanco in lmin. ■14-ssec.—a rccord for tho distance. CANADIAN ELECTION RESULTS. Ottawa, November 12. Tho final election returns show that the Conservatives polled (128,1 MS votes and tho Liberals 595,038. NEW PORTUGUESE CABINET. Lisbon, November 12. Dr. Yasconeellos has become Premier, consequent on tho resignation of Dr. Celestino Almedia's Cabinet, and General Silveira, Minister for War. FLOUR DUST EXPLOSION. London, A T ovenibor 12. An explosion of flour dust at tho Primrose Mills, Glasgow, wrecked the building. Four persons were killed and seven injured, two critically. PARACHUTIST KILLED. New York, November 13. A balloonist: named Poller made an ascent at Oklahoma and while descending in a parachute tho bar broke at a height of three thousand feet. Poller held the broken ends till ho was within a hundred feet, of tho ground, when ho let go and was killed. COLD SNAP IN KANSAS, New York, November 12. Intenso cold prevails in Kansas (where the temperature dropped 00 degrees in nine hours) and on tho Pacific coast, DAMAGE CAUSED BY CYCLONE. New York, November 12. Nuinorous villages along the (rack of tho North-Western railroad wero damaged by the cyclone.