GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 16 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

—_ BORTHWICK ESTATE. London, December 15. The estate of tho tote Lord Whitburghi (Sir Thomas Bortlnrick) has been sworn . ... at ,£345,437. . SYDNEY BUTCHERING DISPUTE. Sydney, December 15. , The employees in the '• shops yesterday gave their emplo3"ers a week's notice, but intimated that they would bo open for but only on tho •understanding that they were not to work after six p.m. on Saurdays. THE PRISON MUTINY. 1 ; ■ London, December 13. Twenty ringleaders, of . the : mutiny V. ' amongst prisoners on the Isle of Wight' have been removed to Portland and Dartmoor Prisons. They were chained hand' and foot. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. ' , London, December 13. Foot and mouth disease has made, its 1 , appearance in Glasgow, , AUSTRALIAN PICTURE FOR FRANCE.' Paris, December 13. The French Government has purchased . a picturo of Tangier Market, by Hilda Kix, a Melbourne artist. GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL. Melbourne, December 14. The State Governor, Sir John Fuller, has opened a Salvation Army Home for Children, the first memorial in the. world to the late General Booth. ' GREEK DROPPED.. Molbourne, December U. Tho University Senato has decided to withdraw Gro?k from tho Bachelor of Arts degree examination.' DEARER LIVING. Sydney, December' 1-1. Foodstuffs aro 25 per cent, dearer all round as compared with last Christmas, dw partly to decreased supplies.: .