GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1321, 27 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

SYDNEY'S RECORD TRAFFIC. (Rec. December 27, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, December 26. Over nve aitid a half million passengers were carried in the Sydney trams last week. This is nearly a million more thau in Christmas week last year. MOTOR RELIABILITY RACE. Sydney, December 26. Twenty-one competitors started in tho Sydney to Melbourne motor reliability race. FRANCIS JOSEPH AND TRIPOLI. • Vienna, December 25. The Emperor Francis Joseph is evincing a thorough knowledge of the events taking place in Tripoli. He recently gave au audionco of five and a half hours to an Austrian officer from the seat of war. SUSPECTED PTOMAINE POISONING. London, December °S. There are twenty cases of suspected ptomaine poisoning at taniilf, t,..0,. 0 ,i tho eating of pork at ;i public .dinner. One of the victims has developed acute typhoid. GERMAN. CROWN PRINCE UNWELL. Berlin, December 25. Tho Crown Princo of Germany, who is at Dim tug, is suffering from an affection of tho larynx. SEQUEL TO A TRAGEDY. Rome, December 25. Baron Vincent Paterno, who in March last killed Countess Guilia Trigone and then attemptod suicide, has been sent to au asylum. MISSING BOAT REPORTED. Algiers, December 25. The missing boat belonging to the steamer' Chesapeake, abundoued on fire at scu, has reached the coast safely. EGYPTIAN TINANCE. Cairo, December 25. The Financial Adviser's minunl Note emphasises the eatislnctory condition of Egyptian hnonte. ABOR EXPEDITION. Calcutta, December 2.5. The English troops engaged in t.h« Abor expedition ore delighted with Mio Kinp's Christmas greetings wishing tho expedition speedy success. . HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. Melbourne, December 28. The. return of account books kept by householders under the now census arrangement shows larger income, but relatively smaller families.. The hooks returned aro not sufficiently numerous to bo of much valuo. THE SYDNEY DROUGHT. Sydney, December 26. As a result of a careful usage of water, the supply has improved, and is expected to bo normal to-inorrow, TRAGEDY AT BRISBANE. Brisbane, December 26. A man named George Cooper, a wharf labourer, shot his wife, who is in a serious condition. Cooper then committed suicide. RESCUERS DROWNED. Brisbane, December 26. Francis Mebbel and John Jackson, schoolteachers, were drowned at Ciilouncla, near Gympie, whilo attempting to rescue a woman bather. Tho,latter was saved by a third man. EUCHAEISTIC CONGRESS. Malta, December 26. Cardinal Bourne has arrived to arrange for the next Eucharistic Congress for the island in 1913 or 1!) U.