GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telecrapb-Prcss Associmtien-Copyriffhl THE PENNY POST. ' (Eec. January 15, midnight.) Sydney, January 15. A suggestion has been made that the letter-writers of the Commonwealth should subscribe a penny each towards a fund to recognise Mr. Henniker Heaton's efforts on behalf of the penny post. HEAT IN SYDNEY. (Eec. January 15, 9.10 p.m.) _. , Sydney, January 15. lie temperature is 102.9, a record for . two years. FREE FROM PLAGUE. « , i . , , s y dne y. January 13. Auckland has been declared clean from plague so far as trade with Australia is concerned. ' HUDSON BAY RAILWAY. ! ' Ottawa, January 14. The Government has finally decided to proceed with the Hudson Bay railway, reletting the contract which was dissolved subseqaeit to the I'e-leril elections. IRISH ENVOYS , COLLECTIONS. r Melbourne, January 15. » The Irish envoys (Messrs. lWniond, ■ Hazelton, and Donovan) have concluded 3 their Victoria n toiir. In Victoria they » collected .£6OOO, making tho Australasian - total c£22,000. i s ~, ! KILLING NO MURDER. 9 Vienna, January 14. J A Hungarian liojlo.nant named Dartel i was acquitted, on. the groim'd that ho s acted in self-defence, on a charge of kills ing Lieatenuut Laznr, who eloped with '■ his (Bartel'sj wife. . I FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. '' Paris, January 14. 1 The Ministry of Agriculture is testing 1 various serums for tho remedy of, tho - foot-and-mouth disease. A year's loss, ow--0 ing to tho disease, is estimated at s .£8,000,000.. . j ' ROOF COLLAPSES. Lisbon, January 14, 1 The roof of the infirmary at Sad Thome e Island. Portuguese West Africa, on the - Gulf of Guinea, eollapsad, killing three e persons and injuring ten. . ' * LEPER COLONY FATALITY. New York, January 14. a The buildings at the leper colony in i- New Bedford have been destroyed by firo. s It is believed that some of the inmates e have perished. , t ;. SCHOONER CAPSIZES. £ New York, January 14. j The four-masted schooner Admiral, CB3 ■ tons, capsized at tho entrance of the ,_ Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon, after j colliding with a jetty upon which she was driven during a gale. The crew had pre- " viously landed. MISS AM'/ CASTLES. ~ London, January 14. if Miss Aray Castles, the Australian singer, v had an enthusiastic reception at a ballad ■- concert in Queen's Hall. "e CANADA'S MINERALS., t ■ London, January 14. V The Canadian mineral production of j 1911 ' totalled .£21,000,000, ;iii increase of I 14 per centum. Tho gold production ex--1 ceeded .£2,000,000, and silver JE3,100,000. e —__- °. MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE, t London, January 14. s The net personalty of Sir Cuthbert ', Quilter's, one of tho founders of tho Nag tional Telephone Company and an ex- - M.P. for tho Sudbury division of Suffolk, - estate has been sworn at .£1,035,976. I . COMPULSORY AVIRELESS. I Monte Video, January 14., I A decree compels nil passenger vessels I trading to Uruguay to be fitted with wireless telegraphic apparatus by May 1. * MOTORING ON ICE. ■I- New York, January If. ' Two men and three -women were drown- ' ed whilst motoring on an ice-covered 1 stream at Trenton, Ne.-v Jersey. The ice ' broke. A third man of the party escaped, e __■___—_■_■■■■■ e =