GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrisnt

« PRISON MUTINY. • . ' London, December 8. The ringleaders of the mutiny in the prison on the Islo of Wight have tan birched. TRAGEDY IN PARIS. Paris, December 9. A so-called "Captain" Willis and a 'Mrs. Lily Allen, two Londoners, were found dead in a fashionable house the Rue de Rivoli, each holding an English Army revolver in the mouth. BIG LINER LAUNCHED. London, December 8. The Blue Funnel Company's steamer Nestor has been launched from Workman and Clark's yards at Belfast. She will be the largest vessel ill the Australian service. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. London, December 8. The Board of Trade returns show that the imports for November increased by .£5,601,059, and exports by ,£3,371,996, as compared with the previous November. The reexports in November increased by .£1,797,107, as compared with the previous November. MURDER OF. A MISSIONARY. Lisbon, December 8. Taveira, the murderer of Mr. Douglas, a missionary, has been sentenced to a year's military imprisonment. BANK MANAGER' ARR.ESTED. Helsingfors, December 8. Idman, manager of the Foerenings Bank, has been arrested for forgery and embezzlement. The bank has lost .£200,000, apart from frauds in private accounts. OVERHAUL OF CABLES. Sydney, December 8. The Eastern Extension Company's cable steamer Patrol has returned from her overlmul of the New Zealand cables. IMPRISONMENT FOR PERJURY.' Adelaide, December 9.. Constable Asker has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for perjury in connection with a trumped-up charge of attempted burglary during the recent burglar scare. RECALCITRANT CADETS. Melbourne, December 7. Mr. Pearce (Minister for Defence) states that ho is creating a provost staff to deal with recalcitrant cadets,. instead of the work being done by the ordinary police. • CHINA AND MONGOLIA. St. Petersburg, December 7. The Government has been informed that China has decided not to send troops to Mongolia. REFERENDUM BILLS. ' Melbourne, December 7. Tho Federal House lias passed five of the six Referendum Bills. Tho sixth Bill deals with the nationalisation of monopolies. GIRL SCOUT'S TRAGIC DEATH. London, December G. A respectably-dressed man enticed Winnie Baker, aged twelve, a Girl Scout, from drill in a mission hall at Woking, in Surrey. Both disappeared, and tho girl was subsequently discovered near the mission hall, strangled. ■