GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2299, 5 November 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association—Oopyrisht 9 WRECKED ON A LONELY ISLE RESCUED SAILORS ARRIVE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, November 4. Til© Union. Steam Ship Company's Island trader Tofua has brought six members of the crew of the schooner S. T. Alexander which was wrecked on a reef at an uninhabited island in the Tonga Group on September 28. All wore landed safely. . Captain Lorensen nnd four men endeavoured to reach Suva, and after fivo days reached Mago Island, covering 290 ■miles, from where they were taken to Suva. The others remained on the island for twenty-six days. There was no fresh water, and they were plagued with thousands of rats. Eventually the Tofua rescued them on October 24. AIDING A STRIKE CHARGE AGAINST MINERS' FEDERATION SUSTAINED. • (Rec. November 4, 10.40 p.m.) ■ Sydney, November 4. In the Arbitration Court, Mr. Justice ETeydon delivered his judgment in the case calling upon the Northern District Colliery Employees' Federation to show cause why it should not be penalised for aiding a strike. in certain Maitland mines in .connection with the afternoon shift trouble. He adjudged the federation guilty of aiding the strike, and of paying strike • NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT CROP. (Rec.' November 5, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, November ,4. Speaking in the State Assembly, the Attorney-General, in reply to a question regarding a milling firm closing owing to a shortage of wheat, and New Zealand importing Canadian grain, said that tlie_ reports indicated that New South Wales will have sufficient wheat to carry her through to'next year, and provide seed, for the following crop. VICTORIAN STATE ELECTIONS. (Rec. November 5, ■ 0.5 a.m.) Melbourne, November 4. The State Parliament has been dissolved. The elections will be lield on November 26.- ■, . LATE COMMERCIAL. WHEAT. (Reo. November 5, 0.20 a.m.). London, November 4.. ~ Wheat is firm and unchanged. Sellers offer sparingly.