GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 13 November 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press AssoclaAion^GJopyright /... ~; '. ——— <> ———"" MINERS' EIGHT-HOUR. DAT- ■ '.- • Sydney, November'l2, . The Legislative Assembly- has' carried the third reading-of the Bill providing for-: .an eight-hour day in coal mines. . ';., AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS,BILL. ~ .....London, November 12. / The Agricultural Holdings- Bill,- ontitling, tenants to twelve months' notice to quit Upon the sale of 'ari estate has been passed through stage ia the Hause of Lords. . • ■ ...' WOMAN SUFFRAGE J iGAMPAIGN; -'! London, November 12. ■■■ Mr, Gebrg© Lansbitryy Labour member. -foil.Tower Hamlets, Bow. and Bromley, is resigning his seat to .contest it as a champion of woman's, suffrage... DIPLOMATIC CHANefES, .' V ' . London, November 12. Mr, H, C. Ebwtherj British Minister to Chile since 1909; has been appointed Minister at Copenhagen' in' succession to Sit Conyrigham Greene, who was recently transferred to Tokio. : ■ ' " AMBASSADOR RESIGNS.. Washington, November 11. Mr. Charles-P. Bryan, United State's Ambassador to Japan, has resigned, FOOTBALLER IN COURT. .-'■■'.- . .. Sydney, November 12. ' Mrs. Gilnjour has secured a maintenance order for SX. weekly egainst J.. R.. Gil.niour, a well-known'footballers, ,who hag also been ordered to pay the cost of ,ertradition from New Zeaiajidi CASE. . London, November 11. V The Wife of Mr. William.Harrisbh;, lan ex-Army officer, has beeh divorced,. The co-respondent -was Sir Schomberg.M'Donnell, Secretary' to' the Board of Works, and. a son of the tenth Earl of .'Antrim. There was no defence,. RISING IN BRAZIL." ' Rio de Janeiro, November I!, ! A revolution has broken out in the State of Ceara, MR. TAFT TO'VISIT AUSTRALIA. '-' Melbourne, November 12. President. Tnft .said that whenhe was relieved of office he would visit. Australia. Ho said he had always looked forward te seeing this country. TROUBLE Af PUNTI. ARENAS. : ..Valparaiso, Novemjjet 10. The garrison at Punta Arenas, in the. Straits, of Magellan, has Shutinied. Twq warships have been .sent. BUTCHERS' STRIIvE ENDED/ / Sydney, November 11. ~. The. Broken Hill butchers'' strike has: . euded. •• ■ -,'■; ; ■, TEMPERANCE SUNDAY. ; , Sydney, Novehiber 11. Temperance Sunday, was observed at. all the churches, sermons on social siib- : jects being preached... CRIME IN FIJI. Suva, November 10,. fhp Lautoka 'Circuit Court had a heavy Criminal calendar to deal with/. The accused were chiefly Indians. There were two murder charges. One man, Kilber : Paramour, was convicted and sentenced to death. The other was acquitted owing to a, flaw in the evidence. WELL-KNOWN ACTOR FOUND DEAD, London, November 11, Mr.- W. S. Penley, the well-known comedian, is dead. tMr." Penley was born at St. Peter's, Margate, en November 19, 1852. .When "The Private Secretary," was removed to the Globe he succeeded Beerbohiii Tlreo as the Roy. Robert Spalding. In 1892 he took the Royalty Theatre, and produced "Charley's Aunt.", Ho rebuilt the Great Queen Street Theatre in 1898, and reproduced "Charley's Aunt."]