GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 1 April 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telcgraph-Prers Association-Copyright NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTRY. ~ _ „ _. „ , Sydney, March 31. Mr. D. M. Hall, Federal 1,1.V. for Wernwa, New South Wales, has been appointed. Solicitor-Genera) and Minister for Justice in New South Wales, with a seat in tlio Legislative Council. [Mr. Hall was born in Victoria in IS7J. He has been n member of tho Labour party in tlio Federal Parliament since 1900, and previously sat for three years in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He is a barrister by profession.'! MALTESE FOR AUSTRALIA. Malta, March 29. Thirty emigrants havo sailed for Australia. LITHGOW IRON DISPUTE. _, _ , Sydney, March 30. Ihe Labour Council has recommended tho adoption of the Executive's suggestion that tho embargo on Lithgow iron should bo removed. The. unions concerned will confer with the council's executive on Tuesday next. NEW SOUTH WALES MINERALS. Sydney, March 30. The value of tho mineral output of New South Wales for 1911 was .£9,753,000, an increase of .£1,021,000 on the previous year. The aggregate value to tho end of the year was .£217,877,000. Coal, gold, silver, and lead head the list. ELECTORAL REDISTRIBUTION. 1 Sydney, March 30. The redistribution of seats scheme has been gazetted.' It leaves only four of the present electorates intact. The city will bavo distinctly bigger representation. THEFT OF DIAMONDS. New York, March 31. Hector Jewell, alias Henry Johnson, has been arrested at San Francisco on a charge of stealing diamonds worth X2OOO in Sydney. RAILWAY COLLISION. Rome, Mr/oh 30. The express from Vienna to Nice collided with a goods train at Meizo twelvo miles cast fo Milan. Tho driver and stoker were killed and several persons wero injured. TARIFF RECIPROCITY. London; March 20. Reuter's Agency states that Germany has reapproached Canada with a view to coming to a reciprocity arrangement. INMAN V. REECE. (Rec. April 1, 1 a.m.) London, March 31. In the match for iJm billiards control championship between liiinnn and Reeco, the score stniids: hiniiui, 18,000; Reeco, I'SVJ.