GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1408, 8 April 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Prose Association—Copyright 9 ORDERED TO REFUND. Suva, April 6. At the Police Court on Thursday, Humphrey Berkeley, a barrister, well known in Australia and New Zealand, was ordered to refund ,£25 paid by an Indian for a passage to Argentine, and .£'s damages. It was stated in evidence that a number of other Indians had paid similar amounts. Notice of appeal was given. ATTACK ON A BRITISH CONSUL. Teheran, April 5. Great Britain insists on tho arrest of tho real authors of the attack on Mr. AV. A. Smart (tho British Consul at Shiraz, who was wounded in a severe fight while travelling from Bushire to Shiraz), instead of scapegoats, as a condition of the withdrawal of additional troops. BOMBS SEIZED. Constantinople, April 5. A quantity of bombs and dynamite was seized here. They were intended for Russia. An Armenian has been arrested. - LITHGOW'S MINERS. Sydney, April 6. At an aggregate meeting of the Lithgow miners to consider the resumption of work, thoro was a section strongly against resuming until the two non-unionists were removed from the works. A ballot will bo taken. SYDNEY SHOW. Sydney, April 6. At tho bhow the attendance yesterday totalled 95,000—a record. • Andrews's Blue Baron won the high jump, clearing 6ft. 6in. Sydney, April 7. There was an attendance of 12,000 thousand at the show. Tho attendance to date is twenty thousand above the previous best. MOTOR-CARS. Sydney, April 6. The imports of motor-cars last year wero valued at .01,237,000. Now South AA T ales leading with .£529,000. UNEMPLOYED FOR AUSTRALIA. London, April 5. The Board of Trade has circularised the Labour Exchanges, asking for a thousand unemployed to emigrate to Australia.

BOAT RAISED BY BALLOONS. (Rec. April 7, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, April 6. Special balloons at Cherbourg raised a boat which had been weighted.and sunk, representing a submarine.