GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1340, 18 January 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Br Telesraph—Press AsseeiatUn-Copyri&hl ,■ j—. . . HOT WEATHER. CRec. January 17, 11.15 p.m.) Sydney, January 17. Tho heat continues in the country; 114' degrees bcing.rcgistered at Mogil. BODY IN A BASKET. Adelaide, January 17. The police arrested two women carrying a basket, containing the body of a newly-born child. PRESIDENT CAPTURED. Ascuncion, January 16. Tho Revolutionaries captured President Roys, and compelled him to resign. INDICTMENTS DISMISSED. \ New York, January 16. All the indictments against Detective Bums and other parlies implicated in the ■ alleged kidnapping of (ho. Macuamaraa i havo been dismissed. , A TAX-FflON CASE. London, January 16. In the Privy Council appeal, case, tin Commissioner of Taxes, New South Wales, versus Adams, judgment waj > reserved. COMMONWEALTH SUGAR DUTY. Hobart, January 17. Evidence given before tho Sugar Commission was to the effect that if the duty were taken olf sugar it would* be tin salvation of the small fruitgrowers. A ROYAITcHARTER.. London, January 16. A Royal Charter has been granted to the Boy Scouts Association. PETROL TRAMCARS. . ■ n , London, January 16. ~ Iramcars driven'by petrol have been inaugurated at Morccambc, Lancaster, lhe cost of the fuel is a penny a mile. A MINISTER'S CLEMENCY. ~ , Paris, January IG. ' At lhe instance of M. Briand, Minister for Justice, the' President (M. Fallieres) '< has pardoned La Cour, tho man who in ■ November last assaulted M. Briand, then ■ Prime Minister. HOSPITALS~oI'ERCROWDED. : Sydney, January 17. , lhe hospitals in (ho metropolitan area are seriously overcrowded, and are now accepting only urgent cases. ' BUSH FIRES. ' Adelaide, January 17. The most serious bush fares that hav« occurred for years are raging in the ' Forest Lodge district. i Y.M.C.A. HEADQUARTERS. i London, January 17. . _The fund to pay for the erection of the Y.M.C.A.'s new Headquarters'in Tottenham Court Road,.London, has now reach- ' ed .£38,347. ka endeavour is being made ; to raise .£IOO,OOO.