GENERAL CABLEGRAMS-

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 13 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS-

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopynsnt 9 QUEENSLAND POLITICS. Brisbane, December 12. Mr. Macartney, who recently resigned his portfolio of Lands in the State Cabinet, gives as the reason for his resignation differences of opinion on the subject of what position the Commissioner of Polico should hold in relation to political control, and the delay in introducing a Bill relating to the matter. LONDON MYSTERY. London, December 12. An elderly man has been found at Wolcing with a bnllet in his forehead. It is presumed that he was murdered. No weapon was near. The tragedy is supposed to be connected with the girl soout outrage. AVIATION HEIGHT RECORD. London, December 12. M. Garros, the well-known French aviator, in a .flight at Tunis, aeroplaned to a height of 19,000 feet, establishing a new world's height record. ENGLISH OFFICER MURDERED. Teheran, December 12. Tribesmen at Shiraz murdered Captain Eckford, of the Central India Horse, during a shooting expedition. GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA. London, December 12. The Eight Hon. William Ellison-Mac-Artney, P.C., Deputy-Master of the Royal' Mint, has been gazetted Governor of Tasmania, in succession to Sir Henry Barron. ("Mr. MacArtney was born in 1852, andwas educated at Oxford. He was a Unionist M.P. from 1885 to 1903, and was for some years Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty.] NOUMEA PLAGUE OUTBREAK. Sydney, December 12. Advices reoeived by mail state that the plague in Noumea is being gradually suppressed. Tho patients are 1 mostly of the coloured race. MOUNT LYELL DISASTER, Hobart, Deoember 12. Another body has been recovered from the 700 ft. level of the North Lyell mine. MR. CHAPLIN INJURED. London, December 11. Mr. Henry Chaplin, Unionist M.P. for tho Wimbledon Division of Surrey, and formerly President of the Local Government Board, was thrown from his horse while following tho hounds and had two ribs fractured. [Mr. Chaplin is now 71 years old.] PRISON MUTINEERS. London, December 11. The fifty Isle of Wight prisoners who mutinied because one of them was sent to the punishment colls have been closely confined, and their diet has been rigidly curtailed. . The ringleaders were placta on the triangle and birched. ■ BUILDING COLLAPSES. Paris, December 11. A villa collapsed at Arcachon, near Bordeaux, burying ton workmen. Five of them aro dead. VANCOUVER CADET'TOUR. Vancouver, December 11. The cadets have arrived'' home. The Premier and Government members welcomed them, ns well as tho Mayor and aldermen of Vancouver. Tho boys are highly pleased with their trip. .