GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1501, 25 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

FRANCE AND THE PRINCE OF ■ WALES.(Rec. July 25, 1 a.m.) Paris, July 24. * The President, M. Fallieries, has pro sented the Prince of Wales with tho brand Cross of the Legion of Honour. DUTCH RICE SHORTAGE. • ■ . , , The Hague, July 21. A decree has been issued prohibiting exports of rice from the Dutch East Indaes owing to tho shortage there. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. . . , The Hague, July ?4. An international convention has adopS erf a uniform law governing Dills of exchange. Twenty States have signed tho agreement. Great Britain, however, ia not a party to the agreement. ■ NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.. Sydnoy. Julv 21. Owing to the illness of Mr. AVads, Leader of the Opposition, tho debate on the Addres.s-m-R.eply in tho Assembly was held over and other business taken. MISSING VESSEL SAFE. Sydney, July 21. Tho Curlew, one of the coastal sailinj vesselß which had been missing since tho storm last week is safe nt Trial Bav. but is badly damaged. Three of the ercw are injured. WET WEATHETIN SYDNEY..;■.: ■ . ■ Sydney, July 21, ■ Tho rain, wlucli has been falling steal) ' ,-ily for somo days past, still continues. SIR E. SASSOON'S ESTATE. London, July 23. Tho estate of tho lato Sir Edward Al« bert Sassoon has been sworn at ,£1,000,000, FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. Loryion, July 23. Replying to n question in tlia limise ot Commons, Mr. T. W. Russell, Vice-Presi-dent of tho Department of Agriculture in Ireland, stated that a prosecution had been instituted against owners of cattlo at Swords, north-cast of Dublin, for not notifying tho authorities of tho outbreak uf. foot-and-mouth disease there. SIX GIRLS BURNED TO DEATH. London, July 23. A quantity of celluloid ignited in'a city faotory. The flames cut off tho worker's in .the fourth story. Six girls perished, and six were injured. FIGHTING IN TURKESTAN. St. Petersburg, July 23. Sappers in tho neighbourhood of Tashkend, in Russian Turkestan, mutinied, and exchanged volleys with their comrades. Ultimately they were disarmed, after killing two and wounding sixteen. BANK WITHDRAWALS. Melbourne, July 24. Tho Federal Primo Minister, Mr. Am drew Fisher, is of tho opinion that Parliament was not flouted by tho Savings Bank regulation issued by tho Governor-in-Council repudiating responsibility for fraudulent withdrawals. The clause was passed by tho House, rejected by tho Senate, and therefore not gone on with. MESSINA EARTHQUAKE. Sydney, i,Tuly 21. . His Excellency the Governor, .. Lore!' Chelmsford, has presented' Mr. Shepherd with a silver medal from tho King of Italy.in recognition nf his services during the earthquake at Messina in December, 1908. Shepherd was then a sailor oii tho steamer Drake, which was-oft' -Mussina, and assisted to dig eighteen persons out of the ruins. COUNTER LUNCHES. • ' Brisbane, 'Julv 21.. TJio metropolitan hotelkeepers have do' cided to abolish counter lunches.

OBITUARY. London, July 23. Mr. AM Thomas, M.P. for Carmarthen* ■ shiro East, is dead. CM' - - Thomas has eat for Carmarthenshire East ill tho Liberal interest sinco 1890. Ho Was a Welsh lawyer, with a lucrativo criminal- and commercial practice.] FARMERS AND IMMIGRANTS. . Sydney, July 21. At tho Farmers Conference a rcwhitiofl was carried urping Hie Government to pursuo au nctivo immigration policy. EXHIBITION SCHOLARSHIP. _ _ London, Julv 24. T. Rigg, of Wellington, has booii elected' to Ml 1851 Exhibition scholarship of £150