GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1525, 22 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TaleuraDh—ProM MBoclation—Co&THßht 9 FREIGKT STEAMER ASHORE. New YoYk, August 20. Tlie freight steamer Pleiades, 3753 tons, is ashore on the coast of Lower California. The cargo lins been jettisoned. The crew nro safe. There are. hopes of saving the vessel. ' CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN. Christiania, August 21. King Haakon has banquetted Captain Amundsen, the discoverer of the. South Pole, and his companions. NEW CARGO LINE. Sydnoy, August 20; Tho St. Andre has arrived from Antwerp. She is the first of tho now lino of French cargo steamers. The St. Andre will return to the Continent via Noumea, Tahiti, and Montevideo. ' NERA-TAVIUNI COLLISION. Sydney, August 20.' The hearing of the appeal enso in connection with the Nera-Tnviuni collision on October 2 last has commenced. [The collision has already been the subject of repented inquiries.] OUTBREAK OP CHOLERA. Perim, August 20. There has been an outbreak of cholera among Javanese pilgrims on the Island of Kamaran. ' SUFFRAGETTE RELEASED. London, August 20. Lizzie Baker, one of the 1 English Suffragettes concerned in tho disturbance in Dublin on tho occasion of Mr. Asquith's visit last month, and who was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment, has been released on account of ill-health. INSURANCE ACT RESISTER, London, August 20. William Hnrlock, a leading Radical, residing at Walworth,'was fined JC2O, with costs for refusing to nflix insurance stamps to papers required under tho Insurance Act. ADVERTISING AUSTRALIA. London, August 20. Western Australia has an excellent exhibit at tho Royal Jersey Agricultural Society's show. A PRINCE SHOT DEAD. St. Petersburg, August 20. A soldier, who had been sentenced io imprisonment, rushed nt Prince Tunianoff at tho Commander's residence, and shot; the Prince in'tho lungs.. Officers rushed to tho sceno and Wiled the murderer. TO FIGHTLABOUR, Melbourne, August 21. The Builders;' Association lias decided to raise ,0100 io help the Liberals to light the Labour party. Strong speeches were mndo against tho party's class legislation and tho squandering of money on day labour. BAPTIST CHURCH BURNED. Melbourne, August 21. Eire seriously damaged tho Baptist Church nt West Melbourne. Incendiarism is suspected. ABETTING A; -CHILD TO STEAL., lijelbourne, August 21. A man was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Benalia: on a. charge of aiding and abetting' 'his 13-year-old son to steal. He pleaded that he had a family of five children, who were starving. SYDNEY ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY. • ■■■.>" Sydney, August 21. Tho Amateur- Orchestral Society has been rosuscitave'd.''!"Mr."Alfred Hill has been appointed conUnotbr. EARTHQUAKE; SHOCKS. Adolalde, August 21. The Observatory on TSnndny morning last recorded earlhquako shocks. Tho centre of the disturbance was possibly the Caroline Islands.