GENERAL CABLERRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1987, 18 February 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLERRAMS.

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MINIMUM WAGE DISPUTE,

• • Londoh, Fobrapry 17. Nino thousand Yorkshire inkers anS three thousand South Wales miners are id.to Owing to minimum wage disputes.

NEW. OABtNEV IN SWEDEN.

Stockholm, Febiiiary 17. M. HammarskjoM Mae &niicd "a Oab« ■inet. . . . .

AZIZ BEY ARKESTED.

_■ • GOftstafltlnoftlo, .February 17. Aziz; ®ej", recently commander of Cy* renaieiij hi Africa, Iras been arrested for conspiring agiyiivst this GonvwiUoo of tinion and Progress (the- Ececet ©■.egamention which has practically controlled Tu-I« bey ever eiuee the rcvohi£iou)i- ■

NEW ZEAUNI) OFFICES.

Undon., February 16. The King. will., lay Silo fmiji3a.tjo» stones of the New featond Ofiie.ee, adjoining tho Adelphi Theatre. . Tlie date of tho ccrqjuoiiy is not food. . ... .

ADSTftALUtf ORGANISTS.

LqndPfi, February 16. Miss Ati«o Bryant, a Sydney organist, made a successful appearance at lisa Queen's Haft. *" Misses Moiia M'Gattgliey Slid Uim Roftrne (Victorians) gave. Hiipcc-ssftil recitals in Berlin, Jkesdc.iv, and Xiiejwig.

SEVEN WONBIiRS 01? THE WORLD,

LontJon, Fe.bni.ary.i6. . One hundred and fi.ftji" thousand vM»r& i« a newspaper competition placed tho seven winders of the- world I'n tho. following order: Wireless telegraphy, Panama Canal, tlrrigililfts, aeroplanoß, radium, Itincflvatogra.nly, and the steiiiiier linperator.-'Sydney, "S»;i."-.Speeiai

XBXT. EXPLORBB'S FEAT.

New York, February IG. Admiral Peary, the Arctic Soaking at the Explorers , Club dtivner, giiggostotl tliflt girding ti.io cnrlii vi.ji tho Polos should bo tko nest explorer's feat—Sydney "Sun" Spwisl.

WAENING AGAINST PABROI^.

v London, February Iβ. Dr. Beddoo lifts issued a warning tliflft pnfrote aro -tvaivsiftitters of paVWt ai& eases, Jfo quotes many cases, onp-tmra. being; fataL—S.rdne.y ''Sun 5, Slicuiaj.

AVAft OFFICE"oIIQM, Lon.do.ni Fclsrii.ai-y K3. Tho 'War Offiw has. issiie'd an e.mpliatie or'dw, torWdding wntwn ofliPKiw to aocej)t gifts from oontractets.—ftydncy "Sun"" Speanl.

BRAIN ABOVE TOE AtfiRAfJE..

Paris, February 16.. A post-mortem osaininatian of th» head of Ml Beriallon', tlio v itiveivtof of tho flftger-nrint system, shows that tlio brain weighed 15'Ju .gtamimJS^l()s ; iibov<> tho averago,—S-yiuoj' "Sim' Speeiai-

BEQUEST FOE^fv^^MUMJftll.

Syßnoy, February 17. The wffl of airs. Aiinio AVJosncT, witlo* of Frederick Wioaii.or, jcwotler, lias beoft 'sworn for pvob.ivte,. The estate is valued at m&AM, ahd.'.t-jto beqaests incl-nd* an anmiitj , (equivalent to i'l 10s. wctilly) to Clara Humfl'ray. of Duwdm.

PHIL..MA\: ! S.DJUWI)CGS i

Sjxici.il Cable*, (Roc. tfebrrar.v 17, (3.55 p.m.) Uondbh, February 17, . Fifty-iiifte of Phil Mill's h\ack Awl white *r]j-n;\ving9 wcro sold at ChnsUe'S for 130 jjuiHoaa.

BAIHYAYS'-FOIV ASIA MINOIL

"Times"—Sydney "su : n" Special Cables, (Kcc. ftcbruafy IT, B.o3iwtf.)< February 17. French arid GofnVim" representatives havo fcaHipletcd an a.grcijiiK'ivi f<iv tttt> construction of rftitwaj-s Mi Asia JlinOt.