GENERAL CABLEGRAMS (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright)

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1315, 19 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright)

3 RECORD CHRISTMAS MAIL. Sydnoy, December 18. A record English Christmas mail of 315,000 letters has been received. LABOURERS ON STRIKK. London, Decciuber 18. The carters' and general contractors' labourers at Newcastle have 6truck for ou advance of two shillings a week and n reduction in their liourt; to fifty-seven a week. THE ABOR EXPEDITION. Calcutta, December IS. Evor.v effort is being made to iicgotiatti with tho Abor tribesmen through the friendly chiefs. , DEATH OF A MUSICIAN. ' ' (Rec. December 19, 1.5 p.m.) London, December 18. The death is announced of Signor Alberto Randegger, the well-known musician. | The deceased was born at Trieste in 1832, and went to London in 1851. In ISCS ho was appointed Professor of Singing at tile Royal Academy of Music, and since ISBI has conducted the Norwich festivals. He has conducted at the .Royal Opera, Covont Garden, at His Majesty's Theatre, etc.] A NEW YORK SENSATION. New York, December 17. The two Twimen, Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, have been acquitted on th'o charge of shooting the millionaire sportsman and hotel-owner, W. Stokes. x QUARANTINED IMMIGRANTS. ' 1 ' Sydney, December 18. Seventy of i.lic immigrants by tho Zealamlin, on which an outbreak ol diphtheria occurred, lv.ivo been quarantined. None of them are seriously ill. ENTOMBED MINERS. London, December 17. In conncctiou with tho fire in tha Gannockchase* mine, Staffordshire, five miners being entombed, cno body has been recovered. It is believed the' other men are dead. H.M.S. DRAKE. ■ London, December 17. H.M.S. Drake, the new flagship of tht Australian Squadron, has sailed for Syduey. , JESUIT SCIENTIST BANNED. ' St, Petersburg, December 17. The Government has" refustd thO'Bri-i tish Embassy's application .to waive, tho law against, (lie admission of Jesuits so as to enable rather l'igott, an Australian scientist, to undertake seismological studies at Pulkowo Observatory. AMERICAN HOTEL FIRE,' ■ ' ■ New York, December 17. At Santa Barbara, in California, an" annexe to tho Hotel' Potter was burnt, and five persons were injured. There was a panic amongst girls work, ing in t:ho laundry. Many who were rescued were in an exhausted conditionthrough tho effects, of smoke. EARTHQUAKE RECORDED. New York, December 17. A seismograph has recorded a violent earthquake lour thousand miles away. Its direction is not ascertainable, WHEAT HARVEST ESTIMATE. Sydney, December IS. The "Herald" mid-harvest estimate ol (ho wheat yield is A),G<10,000 bushels, the average being about 10 bushels to the acre. RAILWAY COLLISION. Perth, December 18. A hoavily-lnden passenger train collided with tho tail of a goods train overlapping tlvo points The overlanping portion of ■ the goods train and tho engine of tho passenger -rain were smashed. The passengers wore badly shaken by the impact, but otherwise wero uninjured.