GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1333, 10 January 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

\ By Telegraph—Preee Aswciatlen—Oopyrighi . --»— A WEEK OF PRAYER. (Rcc. January 9, 11.15 p.m.) London, January 9. A universal week of prayer has been organised by tho Evangelical Allianco in every country in the world. SHIPWRECKED CREW. Sydney, January 9. The remainder of the Askoy's shipwrecked crew hns arrived from Noumea. THE COAL-MINING DISPUTE. London, January 9. In view of a possible coal strike tho Admiralty is heavily stocking Welsh coal. WIRELESS. Hobart, January 9., H.M.S. Encounter denies the Sydney report that tho warship was in wireless communication with Mawson's party at Macquarrie Island While off tho Now Zailand coast. It is also stated that tho did not speak Sydney etation. A GERMAN SPY. Paris, January 8. Lchrecht, a German, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for espiouago at Chalons.

LOST OVERBOARD. Brisbane, January 9. The surgeon of tho steamer Taiyuan, from China, was lost overboard between Port Darwin and Thursday Island. AVIATOR BLOWN TO SEA. London, January 8. Mr. Fowlor> the well-known airman, while aeroplaning at Eastbjurno, was caught in a storm. Ho was picked ,'vp at sea near tho Mo of Wight. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP. Sydney, January 9. The mile swimming championship of Now South .Wales resulted: Longworth, 1; Wild. 2 j Hickson. 3. Won by 223 yawls. Ti.'Jio, 2lmin. Wsoc. SPRINTER AND CYCLIST. Sydney, January 9. Donaldson, tho Victorian uprint runner, ran a hund-cd yards with tho Victorian chiunpiou cyclist, Donaldson, on the grass, the cyclist on a cycle track. The race, run iu 9 2-sscc,, ended in u dead heat. MILE CYCLING RECORD. Sydney, January 9. A. H. Shepherd cycled a mile, paced by a motor, in lrain. 22sec, beating tho previous record by itsec. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. Melbourne, January it. The Federal Parliament has been prorogued until February G.