GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 28 November 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press A£Socia.tion-Cop'yn'&aß,, .'! : ~ 9 ' .. N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE . AGENCY COMPANY. London, November 27. Mr. Justice Neville has sanctioned the reorganisation of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., and Reduced. [ THE -LATE SENOR CANALEJAS. J ■ Madrid, November 27. '. The Chamber has created the widow of Sonor Canalejas, the late Prime Minister," . i l a duchess, and his children dukes, with the rank of grandees. BILBAO PICTURE ,PANIC. ' Madrid, November 27. ; . Forty thousand persons attended the funeral of the victims of the Bilbao moving picture panic. The procession occupied three hours in passing a given point. .. The students carried forty-sis of the v coffins. ..".'■' QUEENSLAND LIQUOR BILL. ~ Brisbane, November "27. , The Legislative Council has . amended ' the Liquor Bill by increasing the percentage . of electors required to vote to , : carry any resolution from 25 to 50, and also'by requiring a three-fifths majority to carry any resolution. ' THEATRE GALLERY FALLS." '■'•'•"' 1 Melbourne, November 27. j A temporary gallery in a, theatre at " | Bairnsdak collapsed, and a _ hundred people fell. , Some of the audience fled, j but a panic was averted. Several persona. ; • were injured, one seriously. ' NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. ;. i Sydney, November 27. In reply to a question in the Legislarf ', tive Assembly, the State Treasurer, Mr. :. Cann, said it was intended to borrow '! ■£1,500,000 to complete the £3,000,000 loan, ■'. : 'of which only half was recently secured, . ' ' electrocuted' in a power ; . HOUSE. Adelaide, November 27.: , An electrician, named Webb, was found electrocuted in the tramway power bouse. . He had apparently been raising his head j and inadvertently. touched an eleven | thousand-volt wire. i SHIPPING AWARD CHALLENGED. Sydney, November 27. Three groups of steamship owners are .... challenging tlio validity of Mr. Justice Higgins's recent awards in. the Common- ! wealth Arbitration Court in the Merchant .] Service Guild case, on the ground that j intcr-Stato shipping is'beyond the juris- ■ diction of the Federal. Courts.- | SYDNEY BUTCHERS' STRIKE.. i Sydney, November 27. i At a mass'meeting'of .slaughtermen're.'' ; garding the strike, it was decided to re-' . j suine work to-morrow, pending the sub- j mission of the dispute to arbitration. ] REFERENDUM BILLS. ' j Melbourne, November 27. ' > The House of Representatives is still discussing tha Referendum Bills. .'. CLERGYMAN AS CO-RESPONDENT. ;. , London, November 26. , • Alfred Grimshaw, engineer, has been' granted a divorce from his wife with : damages ,£ISOO, against Harold Greenwood, co-respondent,' formerly vicar, ofSt. Thomas's, Sunderland, and now in ' ' Australia. TRAMWAY AMALGAMATION. ', London, November 26. The Metropolitan Electric Tramways ■' ■ j Ltd., and the London United Tramways, ; Ltd.. have agreed to amalgamate. The capital will be .£3,800,000. . • • PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA. - • ; Berlin, November. 26. Prince ITenry of Prussia, brother of tlia " Kaiser, will visit England next week. ; ' OBITUARY. ', I Brussels, November 26. • The Countess of Flanders, mother of the. .'-' King of the Belgians, is dead, aged 07. ; i rPrinccs Mario of B*ljrhim. Countess, of'. : Flanders, was married in 'ISO 7 to Pp'nco Philip cf Betgiuni. brotl'or of the h'x- j Kine Leopold. SI"? was K-n-n h p'risKK-s " of the House of, Ilohensto-'.lorli.l ; '; RUSSIAN NAVAL MUTINEERS.'' '' ./! St. Petersburg. Novpmb-r Cfl. j Eleven of Hi* ituvl imil ; "cri's"Tent'i ' i ronloncrd to tlealli have l-ron shot, 'i ■-■'- '■! Sevaslonol. Four luimlr-'i of tli— ™- , |..-,.< have bton transferred to R-v.-'l nwlYb-'i. J vostock. There hiv l-p;n strikes in vari- j oils districts as a protest ..