GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1627, 19 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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« CHINESE SIX-POWER. LOAN. '(Rec. December 18, 10.45 p.m.) London, December 18. It is understood that tho six-Power Chineso loan will be issued early in 1913. FIRE LOSSES. ■ (Bee. December 18, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, December 18. The insurances affected by the Drug Company's reccnt firs total .£70,000. BARRY V. PEARCE. Sydney, December 18. Pearce departs for London on February 12 to meet Barry. FIRE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, December 18. A firo destroyed the basement of the Australian Drug Company's premises in O'Connell Street, destroying many .valuable drugs, The damage done is heavy. COLONIAL INSTITUTE. London, December 17. Sir George Raid, Australian High Commissioner, presided at the Colonial Institute, when Mr. William Moore read a paper on Australian Literature and Art. NEW STEAMER. ■' London, December 17. The Aberdeen Steamship Line has ordered from Messrs. Hnrland and Wolff an improved Demosthenes. The new 'vessel will be of 12,500/t'ons, with triple screws, driven by oombimition-vccinrocat-ing engines and low pressure turbines. STEAMSHIP DAMAGED. • Durban, December 17. . Tho Trans-Atlantic Company's liner Tasmanic, 3085 tons, has been docked owing to her grounding. It will take a month to effect repairs. MISSING ARMY SURGEON. . London, December 17. The Probate Court has authorised tho presumption of the death of SurgeonMajor John Squire, of the India Medical Service, as from 1905. Hie wife obtained a judicial separation in 1577, and has since lived in Tasmania. PILLAR-BOX VANDALISM. London, December 17. The Suffragettes have tampered . with every pillar-box in Tunbridge Wells. H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. London, December 17. The "Pall Mall Gazetto" states that Prince Albert cruises aboard a battleship in 1913, and goes to Cambridge in October. ■ ' .