GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1549, 19 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Association-Copyright ft FIJI WRECK SOLD. Suva, September 18. Tho position of the American schooner Endeavour, which is on a reef at Gan Island, is unchanged. Tho attempts to tow her off havo been unsuccessful. Tho vessel and her cargo of 800,000 feet of lumber, were sold to-day for JC3SO.

POLITICS AND PUBLIC WORKS. Sydney, September 18. The Legislative Council hns negatived the second reading of u Bill to constitute. a railway duplication board. The measure proposed to substitute political for Departmental control of the duplication work. NAVAL APPOINTMENT. London, September 18. Rear-Admiral Waymouth has been oppointed- Director of Naval Equipment at the Admiralty. ' BRITISH MIXERS' WAGES. London, September 18. The Coal Conciliation Board in the federated area lias agreed to a five per cent increase in wages.subject to the approval of employers and workmen. WELLS-MEHEGAN HATCH. London, September 18. Wells explains that in his match with Mehcgan he did not bear the gong sound before bo delivered the blows for which bo was disqualified. COLD RAIN IN SYDNEY. Sydney, September 18. A cold rain has succeeded the unseasonable hot spell. SCHOOL CHILDREN'S CARNIVAL. Sydney, September 18. Six thousand children participated in splendid tableaux and displays at tho public schools carnival to-day, in the presence of a great gaUiorinjr of scholars and parents. The rain partially spoiled the performance. BOILER EXPLOSION. New York, September 18. Tho boilers of a. malt-drying plant at Elgin, Illinois, exploded, nnd the building was wrecked. Three employees were killed and several injured. ACCIDENT IN A FOUNDRY. London, September 17. Six men were terribly injured in a moulding shop of the Caledonian Railway at St. Rollox, Scotland, through 4 cwt. of molten brasa exploding. HATPIN PERIL. Paris, September 17. Tho Prefect of tho Rhone Department has issued a decree, which prohibits hatpins being worn in trams or at theatres and meetings unless tho points are shielded. MINING FATALITY.

Berlin, September 17. A subsidence in the Augusta Victoria mine at, Recklinghausen, Westphalia, Prussia, caused the death of twenty persons. A HOT-TEMPERED LOVER. Madrid, September 1". Fernandez, a Spaniard, being denied ,a kiss, stabl>ed his sweetheart and shot the girl's father and mother, all fatally, in the streets of Saragossa. He escaped, the crowd failing to stop him. AN UNLUCKY SHIP.' Stockholm, Septemliev 17. The Norwegian sailing vessel Pegasus, which went ashore at Mariehamn, Finland, while bound from Simdsvall to Melbourne, was refloated, but has been stranded badly on the rocks near Stockholm. NO SLUM AREAS. Sydney, September 18. The City Council contemplates the complete abolition of slum areas in tho metropolis. The Lord Mayor (Mr. G. T. Clarke) announced that ,£60.000 will Iw spent on a residential section for the poor. A' GOVERNOR ON TOUR. Sydney, September 18. The American gunboat Princeton, 1000 tons displacement, under Commander W. R. Crose, Governor of Tutuila, Samoa, is due to arrive in a few days for overhaul. THE MEAGHER BILL. Sydney, September 18. The Bill readmitting Mr. R. D. Meagher to the Bar has bean read a second time by 37 votes .to 28. WIRELESS STATION FIASCO. Hobart, September 18. It is stated that, owing to the surrounding hills, the wireless station here is not a success and that there is not much chance of communicating with South African steamers 500 miles away. The Sydney steamers are also often missed off tho coast. STORMY WEATHER, Fremantle, September 18. TTnprecedentedly rough wcalher is being experienced on ITio coast. Shipping arrivals have been seriously delayed. No accidents hnve been reported. Tokio, September 18. Prince Arthur of Cnnnnnirht will attend the funeral of tho lnt" General Nod, who committed suicide at the time of the late Mikado's funeral.