GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1696, 12 March 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—PreES Association—OopyTifflit — « . FIRE ON THE TURAKINA. London, March 10. The Turakina lias discharged all her good cargo. It is impossible to move the ship at present. The local olfice of the New Zealand Shipping Company has been advised that the 'ijurakina's third-class passengers will be taken from Rio da Janeiro to London by tne Shaw.-Savill liner Coi'inthic. Tho Corinthic is due at liio de Janeiro on March 15, and, at London on April 3. THE MARCONI CONTRACT. , London, March 11. Mr. Herbert Samuel, Postinaster-Gen-eral, and Sir Rufus Isaacs, Attorney-Gen-eral, are suing the Paris "Matin" for libel, for alleging that they trafficked in Marconi shares during the Stock Exchange gamble, at the time of the Government making the contract with the company. ■ % - ECHO OF THE AZEFF CASE. St. Petersburg, March 11, M. Lopbukin, Director of the Police, who was exiled to Siberia in 1909 in connection with the Azeff affair,. has been pardoned and restored to his former rank. [Azeff was a notorious double-dealer, who . organised revolutionary plots, which he revealed to the police.] H.M.S. AUSTRALIA. ; London, March 10.

The battle-cruiser Australia developed a mean speed of twenty-four knots during her three-quarter-power trial. Mr. Scaddari, Premier of West Australia, and Mr. Ilolman, Attorney-General of New South "Wales, were guests on borird during the trial. COTTON TRADE DISPUTES. London, March 11. Tlio operatives in fifteen cotton mills at Oldham have notified that they will cease work in a "week. Owing to the alleged bad spinning of cotton the owners of eleven mills have -decided to close. PANIC AT A PICTURE SHOW. Paris, March 10. An explosion in a kiiiematograph show at Montceaul-le-neuf caused a panic. Forty-six peoplo were injured, ten of whom are dying. ' AUSTRALIA'S NAVY. , Fremantle, March 11. The Australian cruiser Melbourne has arrived here on her voyage from Britain. BRITISH STEAMER ASHORE. New York, March 11. Key West reports state that the British steamer Lugano (3598 tons) is ashore, with a cargo of wines and silk, valued at ii 200,000. The crew are safe. j CANADIAN NAVAL DEBATE. I Ottawa, March 10. The Dominion House lias resumed the naval debate, which is likely to last for another week. > SENTENCE OF DEATH. London, March 11. Walter Syltes, the labourer who murdered two girls named Nicholson and Collinson, aged 7 and 9 years, in December last, has been sentenced to death. STRIKERS FINED. Perth, March 11. A number of transporters have been fined under the Arbitration Act for participating in a strike which had been declared off. THE PRINCE OF WALES. London, March 11. The Prince of Wales will visit Germany on March 17, and will spend a portion of his vacation at the German Court.

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