GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1322, 28 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Bj Tcleeraph-Press issociaUon-Coprrichi - MOROCCAN NEGOTIATOR HONi OUBBD. Ti T- • .. B ? rlin, December L'S. r ™. Kaiser has decorated Herr vou Kidcrion-Wacchter, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with tho Order of (ho A CIGARETTE-SMOKING PRINCE. rri. Nt, • Bcr,i "> December 26. The Crown Prince of Germany's throat trouble is duo to excessive cigarette-smok-ing. MOTHER AND CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH. _. . Berne, December 27. During a storm at Muehktlial,' in the Canton of St. Galle, a wooden house took hre, and a woman and four children perished. The father was aho Mverelv burned. ° FRENCH SHIPPING SUBSIDIES. ti. /-.I 'i. , Paris, Deoembor 27. The Chamber of Deputies has renewed the Jlessageries Maritimes subsidy for nrenty-five yeaa'a. INDIAN RULER DEAD. „„ „ , Calcutta, December 26. the Maharajah of Nabha, Sir Hira Singh, is dead, aged 6S. [Tho deceased prince served in the Afghan \Var. He ruled over 300,000 people.l

BLIZZARD ON THE PRAIRIES. Winnipeg, December 26. A blizzard is raging on the prairies. Tho telegraph is cut off in many districts. THE SYDNEY AUTOCRAT. Sydnoy, December 27. ■ Jlr. _ mllis. Speaker of the Legislative Couucil. denies that the Government requested hip resignation. He declines to fay what transpired at the Cabinet meeting, attended by him. BERIBERI ON A BARQUENTINE. Sydney, December 27. The Norwegian barquontinc Oboron, from Peru, which recently signalled for help, has been towed into Newcastle, Tho sickness aboard has been found to bo beriberi. The sufferers have been removed to tho hospital.

SYDNEY DROUGHT ENDS. Sydney, December 27. The.city water supply has been restored to the normal. STABBING AFFRAY. Perth, December 27. An Italian named Sileno fatally stabbed a miner named Darlington, who had called him a scab. COLD WEATHER IX AMERICA. Now York, December 27. Heavy falls of snow huve occurred from Alaska'to the Oregon coast. There lios been heavy frost far south in California. DELHI BREAKING UP. Tangier, December 27. The P. and 0. liner Delhi, ashore- on tho coast, is now breaking in two. QUEEN ALEXANDRA. London, December 27. Queen Alexandra presided at the distribution of the Snndringham bounty. This is her Majesty's first public function since King Edward's' death. - TRAMWAY STRIKE IN WALES. London, December 27. Tho ■ electric tramway Fystcm in the Llanelly district has been suspended owing to a strike for tho recognition of the union. ■,