GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Et Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright ! RAILWAY COLLISION IK PAULS. Paris, December 11. Four persons were killed and tiro injured by the collision of a light engine, with a passenger_ train at tho Garo du Nord, the principal terminus of tho Northern Railway Company. NAVAL RESERVISTS DROWNED. Cape Town, December 11. A boat containing Instructor Pongelly and seven men of tho Naval Volunteer Reserve was capsized in a 6quall in I Table Bay. All were drowned. TRAM FALLS INTO A RIVER. Oporto, December 11. An electric tram fell into the River Douro. Many persona were drowned. THE JUBILEE PLUNGER DEAD. London, December 11. The death is announced of Mr. Ernest Benson, tho "Jubilee Plunger." [Tho deceased acquired fame by running through a fortune at a great pace. He travelled through Australia many years ago and was present at the running of tho Melbourne Cup.] "LA MILO" CASE. London, December 10. The jury disagreed in the "La Milo" case. A STOLEN MASTERPIECE. (Rec. December 12, 0.35 a.m.) Rome, December 11. The Orcagna altar piece, stolen from the Church of Santa Maria Novella, in Florence, on September 17, has been found in. the shop of a Rome art dealer who only paid ,£32 for it. Two arrests have been made. DYERS ON STRIKE. London, December 10. . Ttvo thousand dyers in tho Vale of Leven, Scotland, havo struck for a 10 percentum advance in wages. PRINCESS PATRICIA IN CANADA. Ottawa, December 10. Princess Patricia, daughter of the Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada, has arrived here. GERMAN WARSHIP REFLOATED. Berlin, December 10 The battleship Kaiser Wilhelm 11., which went aground during a fog in tho Flensburg Fiord, lias been refloated. Sho is undamaged. FISHERMEN IN PERIL. St. Petersburg, December 10. There arc one hundred fishermen adrift on an ice-floo in Lake Poipus, or Childikoya, in the south of the Gulf of FinhighwaymenTn TACOMA. . New York, December 10. Highwaymen aro terrorising tho residential district of Tacoma, Washington. The men, who arc not masked, have hold up and robbed a number of people. Tho elforts of tho police to capture (hem have so far been futile. [Tncninn is n modern city of about 85,000 inhabitants at the head of Puget Sound.] TRANSVAAI'gOLD RECORD. Capo Town, December 10. There was a record output; of gold from tho Transvaal during Novc-inlier, namely, 710,739 ounces, valued lit .C.'l.flri",OHO. BOY SCOUTS FIRED ON. Sydney, December 11. With tho alleged intention of testinp their bravery, three young men, nrmed with pea rifles, fired several idiots nl. i: party of boy scouts one bullet pawing through a scout's lint. Tho men wciv arrested. FAREWELL TO MADAME MDl.llA. Melbourne. December 11. Tho Mclba (irnnd Opern Company had an enthusiastic, send-off iifler the final performance hero Tho company Is returning to Sydney. Mclbn. was inundated with floral tributes mid presented with a congratulatory address.