GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ : _j ULSTER AND HOME RULE

INEFFECTIVE IN. ULSTER. \ (Rec. September 29. 8.30 p.m.) London, September 28. Sir Edward Carson, addressing the Ulster Unionist Council, said when tho war was over he would summoirthe Provisional Government, and propose as their first Act to repeal.the Home Rule Bill as regards Ulster, and added: "Our duty as volunteers is to see that that Act be made ineffective in Ulster; Meanwhile, lot us throw ourselves wholeheartedly into the patriotic action of supporting the Empire."

PANAMA EXHIBITION. (Rec. September 29, 8.30 p.m.)

Melbourne, September 29. A modified scheme of representation at the Panama Exhibition has been adopted. Officials leave for San Francisco in October.

IMPRISONED FOR LIFE. (Rec. September 29, 8.30 p.m.) Sydney, September 29. Samuel Freeman, who was sentenced to death in connection with the shooting of a watchman at the Oxford Street Post Office on June' 9, has been reprieved, and his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life.

ANGLICAN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY,

' Sydney, September 29. Archbishop. Wright, in his charge to Synod, roferring to the temperance question, urged the. need for a new Anglican temperance society on ' the total, abstinence basis. The present society was apparently hopelessly anaemic.

STEAMER ABANDONED.

Brisbane,' September 29. The Adelaide Shipping Company's steamer Marloo bumped heavily en Sandy Capo. She was beached, filled with water. All aboard are safe. The vessel has been abandoned to the undenvritere.

. The Marloo is of 262S tons, and was built in 1891. Sandy Cape is ' the .northern extremity of Great Sandy Island.

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. ' Sydney, September 29. A tragedy if reported froni Lismore. As , the result of a quarrel George. Mulvena shot his wife dead. They had been married only four months. '

London, September .28, The Orontee: mails have been deIdvered.