GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1638, 3 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dy Tel6zr&Dh—Pre>i Association—Coflyrlirlit . QUAEEEL AND MURDER. Brisbane, January 2. Two aboriginals quarrelled, and subsequently one of them,, Paddy Flynn, shot the other, Roderick, through tho head while he was sleeping, killing him, • ■ THE PICTUEE THEATRE FIRE. ;.v Sydney, January 2. . The "Sydney Morning Herald's" estimate of the dainago to the Crystal Palace Picture Theatre is ,£50,000. * '• LOTTERY SPOILS DIVIDED,, , , Madrid, January 1. A business house at Sahtauder won a New, Year's lottery, and divided the prize of .£210,000 among tho employees. MAJS'CHURIAN BANDITS. , ■' ' St. Petersburg, January 1. Chunohuses held up and plundered : ft train on the Manchurian railway. They ,wouudod four Chinese, one fatally. ' MURDERER CONFESSES, .London, January 1. Walter Sykes, a labouiier, has confessed to the murder of the girls Nicholson and Collinson, aged 7 ahd 9 yeare, at KeinberWortlv, In Yorkshire, in November last. He has been remanded. A "MIRACULOUS"'RECOVERY. . Dublin, January 1. A m&n named Fitzpatrick,.' a cattle dealer, died in the fields at Kells, and was taken to the mortuary. His St. Joseph's Cilrd being cut, in the process of laying out, he recovered; This is popularly regarded as a mira'ole; .. ; ~ NEW BANK DIRECTOR. . London, January 1. '•ThO English,_ Scottish, and Australian 1 Bank has appointed Mr. Johh Peterson, a director. •. ' . y A HANDSOME GET, ' London, January I, Sir Pi donated;wßls,ooo.for a publio park and golf oourso at Dundee. •

1 WEEK-END-LETTER CABLES. ; Melbourne, January 2. Tho system of week-end letter cables arranged by the British, Post Office will bo inaugurated forthwith. DESTRUCTIVE STORM. ' r Sydney, Januhry >2. t • A fierce storm has visited Windiiyer, nodr Mudgce. Tho damage is estimated at £5000. Bridges, potato crop% fruit trees, and vegetables have been swept away, and tho country inundated. ;■ 'A' NEW ZEALANDER'3« ESTATE. Londoh, December 31. ' Tho estate of tho lata Mr. 'JOseph Gotildi a Now Zealandor, has been sworn at JG112,333. . v . A FORBIDDEN ANCHORAGE.. Berlin, Deoemtyr 31. The suspicious German ship previously reported as having beea\ ordered to lmto the prohibited anchorage ■ at \ Cherbourg (the French naval fortress), to wliioh she was proceeding was a Gorman eablo Btcamor.; The captain explains that ho ■ anohored outsido the jetty, aild was Unaware'of the prohibitioii, SYDNEY'S "HOGMANAY." • : 'p Sydney, December 31.. ■ The police had a 6trong force on tho Btoeets on New Year's Eve, and the crowds were kept : striotlv in check. Ono row took "place: at Balmain, whoro a man namtd Fedreo was struck by & bottle and killed. . - ■ . STOVE' FATALITY. ' 7 . Adelaide, Decombor 31,' A woman named Mrs. Russell was burn, ed 1 td doath whilo lighting a korosGlio Bt*)v6, Her two Children Btisteined eovere burns. ; ' MOUNT MORGAN MINE. "■.■■■; ■ December 31. Since commencing to pay regular diviaoiids 20 yeatfl ago, tho Mount Morgan mine has paid out

WOOL-SCOURING WORKS BURNED. Sydney, December 31. Elliott and Company s wool Scouring works at-Mascot have been burned. . :■ BOOM YEAR FOR MOTORS. : i . , Sydney, De&mfcer ,Sl. Eight thousand; 6ix ' huudred and eov6nty-four new motor ' vehicles were licensed ill New South Wales during tliO past year. Ai YEAR OF INSOLVENCIES, i Sydney, December 31. There were 395 bankruptcies. in\ Now South Wales during the year, the liabilities totalling .£210,503, and tho assets <£153,632. .. CASE OF FRANCIS SHACKLETON. v, London, January 1. It is Offioially Stated, that Francis Shaokleton's fraudi involves one thousand, not'a hundred thousand, pounds. MRi BRUCEISMAY RETIRES. \ , ' London, January 1, ' !\lr. Bruoe lamny'retires froth the Presidency of tho International Mercantile Marine Company on June 80. Mr. Harold Sanderson, formerly manager of tho White Star Lihe, and Chairman of the Shaw, Savlll, and Albion Company, succeeds him. ■':■ TRIPLE SUICIDE IN CAFE. : Vienna, Decembpr 31. A Jiarlv of thrco youths 6iiicided in a cafe. Thoy took prussic acid ill consequence of, a, lovo affair with the same girl. .. '■ •• "