GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Prera Aeeodation-CoprrieM g I ■ MINING IN TASMANIA. Hobart, August 30. Last year s mineral output is valued at ,£1,400,000. represents a largo decrease. The Minister's report states that if the miners persist in their evident intention to demand inordinate wages the outlook for the industry is very bad. SHIPS AND FOGS. London, August 30. Messrs. Hodgkinson Brothers have invented a recorder for ships showing the position of other vessels sounding sirens iu a fog. Tho invention has bceui successfully tested on the Mersey. FOUNDERS WITH TEN HANDS. London, August 30. Tho Lowestoft steam drifter Hildamaund has foundered in a hurricane with ten hands. CONGREGATIONAL STATISTICS. 1 London, August 29. The world's membership of tho Congregational Church totals 1,479,869, and Sunday scholars 1,593,189, increases for the year of 12,610 and 28,825 respectively. STRANDED STEAMER REFLOATED. London, August 29. The Howard Smith Company's new steamer Time, which was stranded on the Seaton Caiw Sands, Durham, whilo being towed to Hartlepool to have her engine put in.'has been refloated. SHIPS IN COLLISION. London, August 29. The liner Jagnac collided with the training ship Mersey at Liverpool. The Mcrssy was sailing for Sydney at tho time. Only slight damage was sustained by her. 'WATERSIDE DISPUTE. Sydney, August 30. • An impasse in the coastal shipping trade has arisen, tho Wharf Labourers' Union declining to work tho Hunter River Company's steamers owiiii? to tho employment of constant hands in transhipping cargo.

COLD WEATHER IN SYDNEY. ' Sydney, August 30. . The weather is bitterly cold with snow on the highlands. An unusual spectacle was a slight snowfall in Sydney. It is 75 years since there was a measurable fall in the city, though there havo been occasionally a few flakes. ARTILLERY CORPS RESIGN. Sydney, August 30. . The Australian Garrison Artillery at Woollongong has resigned in a body because of the abolition of the regimental staff and the non-provision for tho upk32p of the company. , NEW ELECTORATES. Sydney, August 30. The new Federal electorates aro gazetted. The New South Wales enrolment totals !)35,7-11, 'an increase of 39 per cent sinco 190 G. ■ SNOW IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, August 30. Scattered . snowflakes fell in the city to-day for tho second time ill twenty-fivo years. IN MOORISH HANDS. Tangier, August 30. Indirect negotiations for tho release of tho Frenchmen in tho hands of the Moorish Pretender El Hiba aie proceeding through tho Sherecf Omrani. SCULPTOR'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH. / New York, August 30. Mr. Louis Potter, a noted American sculptor, has died during the treatment of a skin_ disease of the bands by a Chinese physician. The coroner has ordered an inquiry into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. The body was found in obscure lodgings. [Mr. Fetter was born in 1873. He made a specialty of American and Alaskan Indian groups.] CATTLE MAIMING. London, Auirnst 30 Three cases of cattle maiming) recalling tho Wyrley outracrcs of smuc years ago, have occurred in North anil South Staffordshire. SHIPPING SHARES SOAR, London, August 30. The Royal Mail Steam Packet ('(<mnnny's shares rose from 123 a week ago to 137 ion Wednesday, and 150 yesterday. There are Tumours of a proposed amalgamation. but the consensus of opinion is that_ the rise is largely due to lmrket conditions. THE KAISER'S HEALTH. Berlin, August .SO. The Kaiser lias recovered from his' recent indisposition.