GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyris'nV

■ « — . ! JAPANESE MINISTER RESIGNS. Tokio, December 4. Baron Uyehara, Minister for War, has \ resigned in consequence of his difference ' witn the Cabinet over the Korean question. '

BRITISH .R AILWAY UNREST.

THE STAR OF AUSTRALIA.

ELECTORAL REDISTRIBUTION. ;

WEST AUSTRALIAN HARVEST.

MILLIONAIRE ESTATE.

OVERSEAS AIR FLIGHT.

LINER ON FIRE. I

BLOOMSBURY TRAGEDY.

THE GLASGOW FIRE.

DRIVEN FROM HOME.

TALISMAN COMPAOT.

London, December 8. The railway companies deny the state, ment of Mr. Warkden, secretary of the Railway Clerk's Union, but admit that they are negotiating to secure the passage of an interim measure in order lo carry out the Government's pledge. [Mr. Warkden stated that the companies had notified the Government that unless' they were allowed to increase their rates they would withdraw the concessions granted to the men after the strike.]

Sydney, December 3. , The underwriters have been'' advised ' that the Tyser liner Star of Australia, ! which was recently towed into Aden with a broken tail shaft, will bo towed to Alexandria for repairs. The tugs reach/ ; ed Aden on November 27. j

Sydney, December 3. The Legislative Assembly has adopted • i the new.schemo of redistribution of seats, bringing the State electorates in train ; with the Federal scheme. i

Perth, December 3. The official estimate of the wheat yiehj is 9,389,000 bushels, an average of 12.1 bushels per acre. The oat harvest yields--11,080,000 bushels. . ,

London, December 3. ~i The estate' of the late Lord Furness, S the shipowner, has been valued provision" j ally at A' 1,000,000.

Buenos Ayres, December 3. ] M. Fels, a military aviator, flew ovei* ■ sea from Buenos Ayres to Monte Video in 142 minutes. j

Hamburg, December 3. | A fire occurred on board the Hamburg* . Amerika Company';; steamer Silesia, 4189 I tons, the cargo being practically destroy* ed.

London, December 2. j Tho name of the negress who was ra ported yesterday as having shot Jessia .! Macintosh, an English actress, who was living with the negress's . husband, is , 1 Annie Cross. She stands over six feet in, ' height. She was charged with murder at Clerkenwell Court to-day, and was r<y manded.

London, December .2.. Tlio damago done by the fire at Messrs Campbell and Co.'s warehouse at Glasi Sow is estimated at .£60,000. Hundreds ol people have been deprived of work, Messrs. Campbell and Co. were the larg. est warehousemen in Glasgow

London, December 2. < As a result of the confession made by the widow of Frederick Seddon (who was ! executed last' ApTil for • the murder of Eliza Barrow) that ho had carefully. 1 planned the murder, substituting a poU i sonous preparation for the doctor's pre* soription, Mrs. Seddon and her husband ' have been driven out of Birkenhead.

mu , Auckland, December 3. The thirty-second dividend of tho Taliß. man Consolidated Gold Mining Co. amounting to Is. Gd. per share, will be payable to-morrow on the 345,C00 shares in tho oompany. \ Thia will absorb £25,875, an<l will bring' tho total dividend and bonuses pail L l l y .,J: llo c <> m Pany since reconstruction to £715,359, The dividend was temporarily reduced from Is. 9d. to Is. 6d. on account of the recent stoppage of operations at tho mine, owing to lack of fuel supplies, due to labour troubles.