GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1653, 21 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright V ... . —' r ■- v EOYAL VISIT TO SPAIN, Madrid, January 19. T?w 5 0WB P a P° r . 'Imparcial" states' that

GLASGOW CARTERS ON STRIKE, mi.. ~ ' .London, January 19. ' .Three thousand five hundred carters in Glasgow are staking to : day for an increase of 2s. in their wages, and a reduca w«k .irking hours of 2J houra

, MOTOR-CAR COLLISION. n„* V London, January 19.", u " n 8A -toff, two motor-cars collided and were smashed up at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The wife of Mr. Churchill; First Lord of the Admiralty, had a •miraculous escape,. She sustained some cuts on tho face.

' HULL SEAMEN'S STRIKE, / rot.- , , '••""ton,- January 19. pjfe 66l " ll !?® etnke , at Hull hai been settled, pending a conference of the shinowners. ,' : . ■ 1

. WIDOW JUMPS FROM EIFFEL ' TOWER. . .. Paris, January 19. A widow, a sexagenarian, committed euiS from the first platform of the Eiffel Tower.; Her foot caught on the lower ironwork, and her ■ body wm suspended for an hour.-

TSAR'S ENGINE-DRIVER; DEAD.t> , ,' . Borne, January 19. .Bominique Hof, driver of the Tsar's I ™' h ® 3 d , le £ at Olten. Many times bains bnbc s to wreck the Royal . H.M.S. NEW, ZEALAND. m , _ -.- _ London, Januorr 20.' •3® F on M T - High Cimmissioner for New Zealand, is arranging for an official visit of New Zealanders to inspect the battle-cruiser New Zealand at Portsmouth, when a replica of- tho Dominions caat-of-arms will be presented, COMMONWEALTH BANK. mi n Sydney, January 20. , T P« Commonwealth Bank has started business at Adelaido, Melbourne, and Brisbane. '

AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL. .. , .. Sydney, January 20. An advertisement in the newspapers announces that the Commonwealth Bank has to-day opened branches at Sydney and Canberra, the Federal Capital. This is regarded in some quarters as letting out the secret of the name of the new city.

BLAYNEY BY-ELECTION. . , ~ , Sydney, January 20. A favourable change of feeling is apparent among the Labour supporters in tno Blayney electorate towards Mr. Bceby; tho ox-Ministor. A keon contest is now expected.

PLAGUE IN NOUMEA. m * . Sydney, January 20. ■. plaguo in Noumea had been praotically suppressed when the last mail left. .

MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. , r Adelaide, January 20. n , r 't,. ! omn3 Betts, president of the Port Pino Branclii of tho Masons nnd uricklayers' Union, was found shot near t' lc . Broken Hill Proprietary Works. He states ho went for a walk prior to retiring for tho night, when a stranger rushed at him and fired twice. His condition is oritical.