GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright.

j ♦ LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPERS' PLIGHT. Madrid, February 15. Six lighthouse-keepers on an island off Corcubion are starving. Tho incessant • galea during tho past thirty days lme | prevented supplies being taken to them. : EXPLOSIVE FACTOBT DISASTER. Berlin, Fobruaiy 15. A mixing-shod in an explosivo factory at Brito* haa been blown np. Four of th® employees were killed. PARLIAMENTARY CHESS MATCH. Melbourne, Fobrtiary 16. Sir Henniker Heaton is arranging a cable chess match between the Federal and British Parliaments. MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. Melbourne, February 16. Joseph Pfeffer has boon found guilty of the murder of his sister-in-law, Florence Whitley, whom he shot dead at Albert Parle on December 12, and has been sentenced to death. GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA. Hobart, February 16. IDs Excellonfy th« Governor, Sir Harry Barron, has been operated on for an internal complaiit. He is progressing favourably. GERMAN GAMING CLUB. Berlin, Fobrnary 15. Dr. Schroeder lias been sentenced to two months' imprisonment and fined fIOOO iff arks (about XGOO) at Dusseldorf for illegally conducting n gaining club. Tlirefl others concerned received minor sentences. The funeral took placo at Crowe, England, recently, of Mr. Joseph Matthows, one of tho b'est-known express drives on tho London "n/1 North-Western &&&**?• lis uißjnt ttftj jtmtfsi i» lAv« Mid cm drfrot cl iba v&ei fterf#.