GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ 0 . . ENGLAND V. WALES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright m, ' ■' '.London, March 17. the English representative Association football team defeated Wales by 4 points to 3. • CHEAP MOTOR FUEL. mi t j * London, March 18. the London fire brigade lias tested a devico to utilise paraffin at 7d. per gallon for motors. The motors covered an average distance of 20 miles on a gallon. COLONIAL INSTITUTE, mi .„ . . - ' London, March 18. the Colonial Institute, with a view to enlarging its operations, has decided to elect associates resident in the United Aingdom, the annual subscription to bo CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP. lr t, , London, March 18. Air. Broadhead, of C'hristcliurch, has oi' 12 ! 1 senior scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge.

MARCONI CONTRACT. m, fit. ~„ , . Paris, March 18. ilie Matin has apologised to Mr. Herbcrt Samuel, Postmaster-General, and Sir Kufus Isaacs, Attorney-General, for its criticism of them in connection with the ilarconi wireless contract. UNREST IN PERSIA". tu tj r . Teheran, March 18. .. i . British cruiser Pelorus lias landed bluejackets at- Bunder Abbas to' assist in driving off the Baharloos tribesmbn who have attacked a British survey party. . •' LOSS OF AN ORE STEAMER FEARED. T , . . , ; DeHin, March 18. ■it is. fearod from the discovery -of wreckago that the steamer Peruvia (4041 tons), ore-luden from Narvik for Ewden, lias been lost with her crow of twentveight hands.

THE PRINCE OF WALES. _ . London, March 17. Ihe Prince of Wales has been promoted to a lieutenancy in the Navy. ENTOMBED MINERS. . London, March 17. rwo miners .entombed by water in tho Townhead mine 111 Cumberland, are expected to -be released to-morrow. They are Irishmen, and they. received through the borehole, through which they are being fed, n sprig of shamrock. MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT SI3A. .. , London, March 17. An American dancer, Frances Schnitz whoso stage name was Frances Leslie was found dead on board the steamer' Oceanic when entering Southampton. Her parents suspected toul play and requested an inquest, which has been opened and adjourned. A PREMIER'ON TOUR.. London, March 17. The Hon. J. Scaddan (Premier of West. and Sir Newton Moore visited tho Wcstinghouse works at Manchester anil also inspected tho docks and grainhandling facilities. TRAIN SNOWED UP, Christlania, March 17. A train at Bergen is snowed un. Ski runners are conveying food to the passengers.

SYDNEY -WATERSIDE TROUBLE. ln , ! , Sydney, Marc.li 18. "lie loading of wheat shins at Darling Harbour lias again been blockid, the wharf labourers declining to work- with casual hands. The Darling Harbour walerside. workers' trouble has been settled. < drowning Natality. Port Darwin, March 18. A punt capsized in the M'Arthuv River, and three men, named Price, Kennedy, and Charles, were drowned.