BIG GUN BURSTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1600, 18 November 1912, Page 5

BIG GUN BURSTS.

6 EIGHTEEN MEN INJURED. ' By Telegraph—Prew Association-Copyright London, November 15.A 18.5-inch gun burst at Shoeburynes3. fragments fell three miles away. Eighteen men 'were injured, six seriously. GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright 0 — ' ' FIJIAN SHIPPING FACILITIES. Suva, November. 17. Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Company, passed through Suva on the Marama, from Vancouver.. He was entertained by the Chamber of Commerce, and : waited on by a depiuation with a request for additional shipping facilities, to which he promised consideration. STOCK EXCHANGE FIRMER. (Rec. November 18, 0.15 a.m.) London, November 18. The Stock Exchange is firmer, and Consols are quoted at' .£75 55., a rise of ss. since Friday. AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE, London, November 15. Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, gave an address on "National Education" at Dundee. He described Australia as one of the radiant plains of-the earth. It already had tho afesumnc© of a national destiny of sur-passing-promise. GUBERNATORIAL EVICTION. London/ November 15. The "Westminster Gazette" says that Lord Denman's eviction from Governinent House, Sydney, suggests that New South Wales Government possesses a stunted, impoverished notion of . what is. due to the King's representative. "The whole business," remarks the "Gazette," "is shabby. Sydney might oultivate thinking imperially." NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED. Barlin, November 15. Gerhart Hauptmann, the German poet tind dramatist, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. ESPIONAGE. ! i Berlin, November ,15. Kostavitohj was arrested for suspected espionage_ in Germany,, and released on bail, in August last, has been sentenced to two years' confinement in a fortress. AMERICAN LINER WRECKED. Buenos Ayrei, November 16. The .Pacific Steam Navigation Company's liner. Oravia, 5374 tons gross, has been wrecked at the Falkland Islands. All on board were saved. [Tho Oravia was built at Messrs. Harland and Wolff's yards in 1897. She was fitted witlu wireless telegraphy and submarine signalling apparatus.] SYDNEY-AUCKLAND CABLE. Sydney, November 16. The oable steamer Silvertown started yesterday on. the laying of the SydneyAuckland cable from tho landing-place of the cable at Bondi. A BOOM IN POTATOES. Sydney, November 16. Potatoes are at ,£22 a ton, this being the highest price for thirty years. The scarcity is duo to tho dry spell. EXTENSIVE GRASS FIRES. Sydney, November IC. Twenty thousand acres of grass has been destroyed by bush fires in tlie Moulamein district, in the south-east of the State. PIPE TONE ORGANS! The Bell Organ and Piano Co., Guelph, Canada, are the largest makers of Organs ■and Pianos under the British flag. The Diadem, the Student's, the Chancel, nnd the Mission Organs are the best Instruments for the home, the school, and the church. "The Dresden" will give ydu easy terms. Sole agents, The Dresden Piano Co., Ltd., Lambton Quay and Brandon Street, Wellington. M. J. Brooke's, North Island manager.