GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1377, 1 March 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright . v .. . ' MANUFACTURERS' CONFERENCE, Sydney, February 29. The Manufacturers' Conference has adopted resolutions in favour of greater efforts on the part of the State Governments to induce a continuous flow of immigrants to overcome the scarcity of skilled labour. Another resolution favoured tho introduction of decimal coinage and decimal weights and measures.

NEW SOUTH WALES CABINET. Sydney, February 29. Mr. Carmichael, who some months for private reasons resigned his portfolio in the State Cabinet, has noiv rejoined the Cabinet as Minister for Public Instruction. CARRIED BY A CASTING VOTE. Sydney, February 59. The Industrial Arbitration Accident Bill had a narrow escape from rejection in the Legislative Council, the second reading being carried on tlie casting vote of the President. SHIPBUILDING AMAGAMATION. LontKir N February 28. Messrs, Harland and Wolff, the wellknown shipbuilders of Belfast, have purchased tho London and Glasgow Engineering Company's vnrd at Govan. , PORTUGUESE GUNBOAT SUNK. Lisbon, Februarv 28. The gunboat Faro was sunk at A'lgarve, through a collision with a merchantman. Six persons, including tho commander, were drowned. JEWELLER ROBBED ON A TRAIN. Vienna, February 28. A' jeweller named Loovi, while travelling on tho Paris express, was robbed of XIO.OOO worth of pearls and diamonds, which ho was carrying fastened in an inside pocket. SEATTLE MILLIONAIRE DEAD. Ottawa, February 28. Mr. W. Hofius, a millionairo manufacturer and capitalist, of Seattle, is dead, aged sixty years. He started life as a day labourer in a foundry, and saved enough money to buy a blast furnace. He then rolling mills, and grew to lie the wealthiest man on the Pacific Coast of America. HATPINS BY-LAW. Sydney, February 29. • A Citv Council by-law has been gazetted prohibiting the wearing of hatpins protruding in such a way as to be a sourcc of danger. A penalty of ten pounds is provided for. AUSTRALIAN BLACK MURDERED'. Perth, February 28. The police are investigating the murder of au aboriginal named Jimmy by three other Natives, who were jealous of Jimmy's attention to gins. They hired him into the bush, killed him with a . tomahawk and spears, and then dragged his body about the camp. '