GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright

THE FIRE ON THE OUTBREAK CONTROLLED. Brisbane, November 14. The fire oil. the ore-laden steamer Urilla is now under control. NEW SOUTH WALES MIINERS GET- , TING 11ESTIVE. Sydney/ November 14.' The miners are restive over the Arbitration Court's imposition of heavy fines, and developments are possible at an early date. NORFOLK ISLAND.

Sydney, November 14. ■ -A-report dealing with Norfolk Island has been submitted to Parliament. It says there is a absence of serious crime oil the Island, thanks largely to the prohibition of the manufacture and general sale of strong drink. The ordinary c)a6S of police offences is nonexistent.

NEW STATE GOVERNOR OF .QUEENSLAND, . London, November 13. Sir , Hamilton Goold-Adams has been appointed Governor of Queensland in succession to Sir William MacGregor. Major Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, G.C.M.G., C.8., was born in June, 1858. He became a lieutenant in the Army in 1878, captain in 1885. major in 1895. Ho served with the Bechuanaland Expedition under Sir Charles Warren in 1884-85, commanded the field force against th© ffiatabeles in 1893, then became Resident Commissioner in Bechuanaland, and served in South 'Africa (1899-1901). From the latter year -until 1907 lie was Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River Colony, and from 1907 to 1910. Governor. Since 1911 lie has been High Commissioner of Cyprus. 'ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE. Sydney, November 14. After hearing an address from Mr. J. R. Boose, secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute, the institute derided **£o form' a branch, in Sydney. .... " TROUBLED MEXICO. ' (Rec. November 15, 3.30 p.m.) Washington November 13. Mr. W. J. Bryan (United States Secretary of State) has announced that Carranza, having given the necessary, guarantees. United States proposed to withdraw from Vera Cruz on November 23. , . It is reported that Villa is preparing another revolution against Carranza, and that a battle is pending. . NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. , London, November 13. Hie New South Wales Government is offering- one and a half million sis months' Treasury bills at '4J per cent.