GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1557, 28 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TelcEraph—Presa Aesociation—Couyrisrht

STRANDED STEAMER REINSURED.

London, September 27. The Germon-Australian Company s steamer Ilanau, which is ashore on the Greek Coast, has been reinsured at ,Uj per cent.

ILL-TREATMENT OF INDIANS.

Suva, September 2(. A European overseor named Joauseli has been sent to gaol for fourteen (lays for ill-treating an indentured Indian'labourrr. The offence was the sixth of union Joansen had been convicted.

SLATIN PASHA,

London, September 26. Slatin Pasha, British Inspector-General of the Sudan, has rcceivcd the Gram! Cross of tho Victorian Order. [Major-General Sir ftudof Carl Slatin, was born in Austria in 1857. Ho is a Baron of the Austrian Empire, as we 1 as a British Knight and a. Inrkish H.! was appointed Governor ot Darfur by General Gordon, and was captured by the Mahdists.]

VALUABLE DAIRY STOCK.

London, September 26. One hundred and eighty-seven of Mr. ,Tohn Thornton's dairy shorthorns were sold at Cranford. for .£15,195. One brought five hundred guineas. This is a record.

GASMEN DEMAND MORE WAGES,

Sydney, September 26. The Gas Employees' Union is demanding a 112 V per cent increase in wages, representing an extra burden on tho companies of ,1230,000 a year.

A COMING VISITOR

Sydney, September 27. At tho Dominion Day reception, Mr. M'GoWnn," the State Premier, intimated that he proposed visiting New Zealand shortly. v

PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.

Sydney, September 27. A partial lunar eclipse last night was well observed here.