GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copycat — SUFFRAGETTES AND FIRE ALARMS. (Rec. December 20, 11.5 p.m.) London, December 20. Norah Lackey, a suffragist, has been fined „£25, with tlie alternative of three months' imprisonment, for giving a false alarm of fire. AUSTRALIAN LOANS. London, December 20. . The "Daily Mail" remarks that the West Australian and New South Wales loans would doubtless have proved attractive enough had the times been rnoro propitious.

. SYDNEY BUTCHERS. .I :, .-.. ' U>' !'Mi Sydney, December 20. ; The retail Butchers' Wages Board has agreed to withdraw the week's notice given to the employees and consent to a varying award, which will allow shops to bo closed at six on. Saturdays. NEW ATLAS FOR AUSTRALIA. Sydnsy, December 20. The Hon. K. O'Malley (Minister for Homo Affairs) is planning the' issuo if a new and comprehensive atlas of Australia. FEDERAL LAND TAX. Sydney, December 20. The Iligh Court, in deciding an appeal, unanimously declared that the Federal Land Tax was valid. DICKENS FELLOWSHIP. . Sydney, December 20. A Dickens Fellowship ha 9 been formed here. BLOOMSBURY MURDER. London, December'l9. The negTess Annie Gross has been committed for trial on the charge of murdering the actress Jessie Mackintosh at Bloomsbury at the beginning of the month. Frank Crain, a coloured pugilist, who purchased tho revolver, believing Gross required it for her own protection, has been released. TROUBLE OVER A "STAR." London, December 19. Philip York, an. ex-theatrical manager, has been-summoned at tho Marylebone Court for obtaining .£l5O by false pretences from Mrs. Kingdon Smith, a Sydney lady, in connection with the proposed "starring" of her daughter at the music halls. JOURNALIST FAREWELLED. London, December 19. Lord Eaher, a number of members of the House of Commons, and journalists, and Sir J. W. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, and many Australians, attended a ■ farewell to Mr. Henry Stead, who is proceeding to Melbourne to control the "Review of Reviews," in succession to tho late Mi. W. H. Judkins. NEWSPAPERS AND CHRISTMAS DAY. London, December 19. The majority of the British newspapers will not publish on Christmas Day, thus freeing a million workers. A "MUSICAL BARMAID." Kalgoorlie, December 20. ' A man named George Trew shot- his wife and himself dead. The only explanation of the tragedy is that the wife took a position as a "musical barmaid." The husband objected, and they quarrelled. THEFT OF JEWELLERY. Malta, December 19. ' Jewellery valued at ,£3OOO has been stolen from a jeweller's shop.