GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1618, 9 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Frees Association—Oopyrjgnt ■ « FIRE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, December 8. A fire gutted Harrington's (photographers) large premisas in George Street. Sydney, December 7. The damage done by the fire at Harrington's is ,£25,000, largely insured. The brigade did splendid work, and managed to save tho adjoining premises, which were only slightly damaged. i JAPANESfTcABINET. Tokio, December 7. The council of elder statesmen, under Prince Yainagata's pressure, has recommended that Viscount Teranchi should be summoned to form a Cabinet. GOOD RAINS. . Cape Town, December 0. Good rains have fallen in the droughtstricken area. DAMAGES AWARDED. London, December 0. Mr. Larkin, the secretary, and five members of. the Irish Transport Workers' Union have been _. mulcted _in .£276 damages for conspiring to indues the dockers not to work for an employer who had refused to join the Stevedores' Association.

■• SENTENCED TO DEATH. Sydnoy, Deeembsr 7. James Egan, who on September 25, at Alexandria, a suburb of Sydney, shot his wife and injured Maria Johnston, her sister, and a man named Charles Waite, has been sentenced to death for intent to murder his wifo. AUSTRALIAN LOANS. London, December 6. West Australia is issuing a million four per cent, loan at 99. Sydney, December 7. Mr. Holman (Attorney-General) departs for London in a few days on _ a mission in connection with loan-floating arrangements. SUDDEN DEATH. Sydney, December 7. Tho Rev. Mr. Abbott, headmaster of the Armidale School, dropped dead whilst playing tennis.