GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1449, 25 May 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telograpa-Prese Aissoclation-Oopyriffht $ ELECTEICIAN KILLED. Sydney, May 24. An electrician named Byrnes, while fixing wires to a pole was caught between two wires and electrocuted. STORMY WEATHER. Sydney, May 24. Tho rain continues and shows signs of extending to tho drought areas. There is rough weather on the- coast and shipping is sheltering. THE FRENCH CHAMBER. Paris, May 24. 11. Deschanel, the- well-known member of the Moderate Republican Group, has been elected President of tho Chamber of Deputies in the place of the late M. Brisson. M. Deschanel defeated.M. Eticnne, tho Socialist candidate for the position, bv 292 votes to 203. ' BRITISH MINISTRY. London, May 24. Lord Strachie (formerly Sir Edward Stracliey) hss been appointed PaymasterGeneral", vice Lord Ashby St.. Ledgers who has resigned. HUGE LIABILITIES. London, May 23. John Cathless Hill, builder and brickmaker, of London and Peterborough, has failed. His liabilities total a million pounds secured and £100,000 unsecured. AUSTRALIA'S AMBASSADOR, London, May 23. Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, had an enthusiastic and cordial reception in Berlin. Tho Kaiser gave him an audience of forty-five minutes at tha Imperial Castlo p.t Homburg, GENERAL BOOTH'S HEALTH. ' London, May 23. General Booth, whoso eyes have been bad for some time, has had a cataract removed from olio of them, GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA. London, May 23. Sir George Reid states ho has reason to believe that an influential company is being formed to promote trade between Germany and the Commonwealth. A NEW BISHOP.' London, May 23. Tho Ven. Archdeacon Burrows, of Edguaston, has been appointed Bishop of Truro, in. succession to the laid Dr. Stubhs. PRINCE OF WALES. Paris, May 23. Tho Prince of Wales travelled iii a submarine in tho Hyeres roadstead. FIRE IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, May 24. A fire occurred at Messrs. Buckley and Nunn's cabinet-making works, which were partially gutted. The damage runs into several thousands of pounds. Later. Tha damage at Messrs. Buckley and Nnnn's amounts to £5000. The firm was fully insured. BUTCHERS' HOURS. Sydney, May 24. The butchers' shops assistants have decided not to work later than 6 o'clock on Saturday evening after June 1 next. MOTORS ON THE RAILWAYS. Brisbane, May 24. The Government has accepted an American tender for five motor-cars for the railways at £4525 each. NEW WHITE STAR SHIPS. Hobart, May 24. n It is unofficially reported that the White Star Line intends building four steamers of between 18,000 and 20,000 tons for the Australian trade in which they havo at present a number of vessels of 12,000 tons, HOUSE OF COMMONS ADJOURNS. London, May 23. The House of Commons has adjourned until Juno I. London, May 23. Forty out of Hie forty-six boxes of (he. gold in Hie wreck of tho P. and O. liner Oceana have been recovered. Tho underwriters havo largely used this in meeting their losses on the Titanic, and the situation at Lloyds has been grcnt'y eased in consequence. [The Oceana, which sank off Beachy Head in March, had £1,000,000 in bullion on board.] The denth is announced of Commeiulater Mnrtino, M.V.0., who was Marine-Painter-in-Ordiimry to Queen Victoria. JEduardo de Martino was born at Naples, and entered the Italian Navy, in which he was nn officer until 188". TTe was ordered to take sketches during the Paraguayan War, tuid painted a series of pictures for tho late Emperor Brazil. Hβ has lived in England since 1875:] Sir William Bennett, H.M. Inspector of Anatomy, has Riven -the London School of Tropical Medicine £10.000, bequeathed to him by the late Lord Waiulsvorth, for the purpose of medical research. King George has commanded that the Society of Knights Bachelor shall henceforth be called "The Imperial Society of Knightn." Mr. C. Hamilton Wickes, lately British Trade Commissioner in Australia, will re.place Mr. Grigg ns Canadian Trade Commissioner, and will take up his new duties in the autumn. William Ward,.who was arrested in Western Australia in February last, on a charge of murdering Ernest Nixey Smith at Chiswick in 1008, has been committed for trial. Monte Video, May 23. Captain Amundsen has announced that he will leave San Francisco in March, ISI3, for the North Pole. Santiago, May 22. A mining camp at Gitico,' Antofagasta, Chile, is flooded. Forty persons have boen killed or injured. Hong-Kong, May 22. There were 208 cases of plague, 179 proving fatal, last week. Berlin, May 23. The "Daily Telegraph's" Berlin correspondent reports that the Kaiser infused to bo represented at the funeral of Prince George of Cumberland (who was killed a few days ago in a motoring accident) and ordered that no member of tho Hαucnzollcrn family should Attend. Sydney, May 23. The R-iverviev ColWe seismograph recorded an exceptionally violent earthquake to-day. It is supposed to have occurred at i> point 0000 miles distant, northeast of Japan. Some of llio waves exceeded hnlf an inch. Grainger, one of the fivp men injured in tho sulphuric acid explosion at Newcastle, has succumbed to his injuries. Melbourne, Mny 2.1. The Federal Government ha-? accepted the terms of the New South Wales (Government for tho transfer of Jervis Bay navel bus*. The graak rsirriM tiifl rights of aovere-ipi jurisaicttaa.