GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1450, 27 May 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tel«eraph—Press Association—Copyrislit 9 A FLUCTUATING MAJORITY. , Brisbane, May 23. The third and final count in connection i with the I'ort Curtis election gives Mr. liraslin, the Labour candidate, a majority of two. The first count gave Mr. Brnslin a majority of one, and the second i count resulted in a head heat. AEROPLANES FOR AUSTRALASIA. London, May 24. Mr. Harold Barlow, of Taupo, Now Zealand, has purchased two aeroplanes, with which he intends to give demonstrations in Australasia. GIFT FOR GEOLOGICAL WORK. London, May £1. Lord Iveagh has given .CIO.OCO to the Department of Geology and Minerals at Dublin University. HINDU WOMEN IN CANADA. Ottawa, May 2t. The Government, as a. special act of grace, has allowed two Hindu women remain with their husband.l. These are the first Hindu women allowed to remain in Canada. POET 01~MELBOURNE. Melbourne, TTTay 35. To allow the largest liners likely to visit Australia to enter I'ort Philip channel to the port of Melbourne, tlm channel is being deepened to 12ft. at lowwater, at a cost of ,£50,000. ESTATES FOR SALE. ; Sydney, May 25. Probate has been granted of the will of the late Mr. Benjamin Buchanan, oil Australian landowner with interests in New Zealand. The trustees have been ; empowered to sell the property in Aus- ; tralia and New Zealand for the benefit 5 of the widow, ; COMPANY OFFICIAL ON TRIAL. ' Sydney, May 25. ' Hugh .Tr.mieson, secretary of the Papuan Rubber Company, has been com- - milted for trial on a charge of .stealing t JK73. Thero is a general shortage of t ' . SYDNEY IMPROVEMENTS, r Sydney, May 25, „ Since (lie present Government has been J in office it has resumed, five and a half 1 miles of foreshores of tho harbour at a I cost of JJ!30,000. d FINE OF .tltOO. 3 Sydney, Mar 25. i Six captains have been fined a total of £ 43M00 for allowing fourteen prohibited immigrants to laud. A SMALLPOX CASE. Townsvill, May 25. ;l The steamer Yawata. Maru, from Japan, has arrived here with' a saloon r passenger who is suffering from sniallII pox. • SUFFRAGETTES IN GAOL. a London, May 25. I The imprisoned (suffragette conspirators Mrs. Pankhurst and Mr.s. Pelhick Lavr--0 police have been allowed to wear their o own clothes and to 1 receivo books i'rom s outside. 3 INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW.

London, May 25, Australia has boon awarded a lavgp sold medal at the International Flower .Show.