GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1910, 19 November 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Pr(sSfl A&goqjation^'(&ji£ii£]it • .'• •' 4 OIL SPRINKLERS FOR STORMS. (Ree. November 18, 11,10 p.m.) Ottawa, November 18. Tli© Government ins promised nit investigation into the recent skipping disasters on the Great Lakes, with tire object of making navigation safer. Apparatus for oil sprinkling, it is bplfevoci,' would greatly have modified tlie loss of life caused by tho wrecks. ' WIRELESS TELEPHONY. London, November 1,8. Hie Marconi Cojnpany. has carried out thirty-minute ; Trans-Atlantic wireless telephone experiments between. Ireland and Nova Scotia. No details are available as to the results of the tests. MURDER OF A WOMAN. Sydney Novembor 18. A tragedy lias occurred at, Woo Wan,, some 370 odd miies N.W. of Sydney. A woman, whose name is Wallace, or Richards, was found iil Ivor homo with her throat put, tho wound hei.ng fatal; Pram appearances she had first bean ■stunned. There were signs of a desperate struggle. The woman's husband has been arrested,QUEENSLAND STATE ASSEMBLY. Brisbane, November l£t. The State Legislative Assembly has adjourned till December 2," The Premier announced the. earlv close o'f the session, due to his proposed visit to London in connection with loan conversion. BULLION ROBBERY,' Paris, November 17., A' bos of gold ingots, consigned by the Ottoman Bank at Constantinople to the Parish branch,' via Berlin and Cologne, disappeared en route, The Valtio of the gold is £5000*.' ' »

AUSTRIAN EMIGRANT CON- , • SCRIPTS.Vienna, Novombe.r.,,l7. Herr Altaian, local manager of tho Cnnadian-Paciho Railroad Company, w,hq was arrested on suspicion of inducing persons liable for military service to emigrate to Canada, has been admitted to bail in the sum. of £6260,. IMPRESSARIO AND OPERA ARTISTS. Paris, November 17. The Courts have granted permission to seizo securities at various banks in the name of Mr. Osoar Hammorsfeiiij tho impressario, on behalf of twenty well-known operatic artists whom Mr. Hamiiiersteiu engdsed, for a tour of America. Many of tho artists had paid heavy fines' in order to obtain release from Paris contracts.—Sydney "Sunt" Special.