GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1527, 24 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Teleerapli—Prese Aeiociation—Copyright *. MIKADO MADE KNIGHT OF THE GARTER. London, August 23. The Order of tho Garter has wen conferred on tho new Emperor Yosliihito of Japan. Prince Arthur of Connaught will present the insignia after the lato Mikado's iuneral. IMPRISONED STRIKE LEADER. ' Sydney, August 22. The Minister for Justico lias declined to accede to tho Labour Union's fnrther appeal to release Hatton, ono of the Litligow strike leaders. AN ACTOR'S ESTATE. London, August 21. Tho net personality of the lato Edward Terry, tho well-known actor, has been sworn at £10,000. AMERICAN NAVY. Washington, August 22. Tho Houso has adopted the conference report on the Naval Appropriation Bill, providing for ono battleship and a number of auxiliary cruisers and submarines. Tho total expenditure will bo =£25,000,000. The Bill now goes to Mr. Taft. AVIATION FATALITY. ' New York, August 22. An aeroplane fell 200 feet in a flight in Colorado, and the aviator, Mr. Thompson, was killed. AUTOGRAPH CRICKET BATS. * London, August 21. Three bats, bearing tho English, Australian, and South African cricket players' autographs, aro being sold to raise funds to maintain a cot for a year at the Treloar Cripples' Hospital ami College at Alton. BALLOONISTS DROWNED. St, Petersburg, August 21. A military balloon was blown to sea at Sebastopol, and . its aeronauts were drowned, RUBBER PLANTATION MURDER. Singapore, August 21. Thirty-eight rubber tappers have been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment each for tho murder of Mr. Mackay, an assistant at the Johore Rubber Company's lands. ASYLUM DOCTOR'S DEATH. Melbourne, August 22. Dr. Mullen, superintendent of th« Ararat Hospital for Insane, was found dead in bed. It is supposed he poisoned himself with prujsic acid. Ho was married a second time three weeks ago. A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. Melbourne, August 22. The burglar who attacked Mr. Geoffrey Symo, ono of tho proprietors in the "Age/ , nt his residence, fired five shots, one entering Mr. Syme's arm. The wound 1$ not .serious. STATE-OWNED CABLE. '' Melbourne, August 22. M.r. Fisher, tho Federal Primo Minister, has no information regarding tho proposed conference to discuss tho question of a State-owned Atlantic cable. MINISTER AND CONTRACTORS. Sydney, August 22. Mr. Griffith, Minister for Works, read a statement in the.Legislative Assembly last night traversing Mr. Parkes's charges of extravagance in connection with tho North Coast railway contracts. *» POLITICIANS' PAY. Sydney, August 22. The Legislative Assembly carried through Committee tho Bill increasing members' pay to «£SOO. Tho measure went through without amendment. NEW P. AND O. LINER. -London, August 22. Cfl'iril and Co., Greenock, aro building a 11,500-ton steamer for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She will bo 525 feet in length. IMPERIAL TRADE COMMISSION. London,' August 22. It is officially announced that Mr. Arnold Morley has succeeded Lord Inchcapo as Chairman, of the Imperial Trado< Commission. Tho Commission will hear, evidence in tho United Kingdom in October next. SHIPS' OFFICERS' DISPUTE. London, August 22. Tho National Union of Masters and Slates has resolved to hold up tho Cana-dian-Pacific liner . Montreal and sister ships as long ns possible. This decision is due to the. unexplained dismissal of Mr. Kiely, second officer of the company's steamer Mount Royal. BRITISH CHESS CHAMPION. ■ London, August 22. R. C. Griffiths won tho British chess championship. SUSPECTED SPY DISCHARGED. London, August 22. George Quotalet, arrested at Galway on a charge of espionage, has beon discharged. : "SHERLOCK HOLMES" COLLEGE. Paris, August 22. M. Lopine, chief of the Paris police, is establishing a technical police school—a sort of "Sherlock Holmes'" college COLLIERY ON FIRE. Sydney, August 23. An outbreak of fire has occurred in a portion of tho Newcastle-Wnllsend colliery workings. The area involved is 'pmnll, and has been walled off. Other portions of the mine are not affected. PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES. Sydney, August 2.1. In the Lpgislativo Assembly, tho Salaries Increase Bill (raising the salary of members to «i; 500) passed its third reading. RAINS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, August 22. Serviceable rains are falling, and the wlicat areas have been much benefited,