GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 26 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

'Br Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrjunt O- —- AN EIGHT-HOURS' DAT. ; -■<, [ nV' i LondorijiiDecember 25. ' 'Mr'.'Davis, chairman of 'the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, repudiates Mr. Keir Hardie's demand for an eight-hours' day. A MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY. London, December 23. An examination of the boxes from which 10,000 sovereigns ivere abstracted from a consignment of gold in transit between London and' Alexandria proves that they are the ?ame in, which the gold was shipped. 1 '■The' bankers found that the broken seals had been .replaced, by new ones in a different •' itax.'; ; ~ / THE OTRANTO'S MISHAP. L '- .'London, December 25. The Orient'liner Otraritb, which recently reported by wireless that her refrigerating machinery had. partially broken down, has arrived at Port Said. The refrigeration was satisfactorily maintained. CHRISTMAS IN SYDNEY. Sydney,, December 25. The weather on Christinas Eve and to-day-wai'fine,;'arid the usual dense and orderly Christmas'' 'crowds thronged the 6treets. ~ : AVIATOR KILLED. ■ ; :>.} London, December 25. Mr. Edward Petre ;/was flying from Brooklands to Edinburgh when he fell at ,Marske, in Yorkshire,..and was killed. AMERICAN COAL FOR EGYPT. Cairo, December 23. The Egyptian railways are purchasing a hundred thousand tons of American coal instead of Cardiff. NINE CHILDREN DROWNED. Rome, December 23. Nine children were drowned_ at Domodossola, near the Swiss frontier, whilst skating. HEAT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. . Sydney, December 23. A heat wave Is being experienced, and many high, registerare recorded. At Mungindi the temperature was 123deg. MOUNT LYELL DISASTER. Hobart, December 24. All the remaining bodies hare now been recovered from the North Mount Lyell mine, and extensive repairs are being carried out. INDIAN FRONTIER VIOLATED. Bombay, December 23. A number of Portuguese soldiers at Goa, the Portuguese territory on the west coast of India violated the frontier. They surrounded two villages in British territory, and shot ftwomen, four women, and a child, and ssized twenty-one others.