GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2324, 4 December 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—OogjricM ft . RUSSIA AND FINLAND A MUCH-CRITICISED UKASE. London, December 2. Scandinavian newspapers publish a new Russian Ukase strengthening tlie Imperial Government's authority in. Finland. The papers express . (dissatisfaction at lth.6 Ukase, declaring that it in the deathblow to the Finnish Constitution. THE MEXICAN CHAOS ANXIETY IN UNITED STATES. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. December 3, 5.10 p.m.) . London, December 2. The United States Government is watching Mexico anxiously. Communication, is interrupted. Zapata controls Mexico City, and Carranza holds Vera Cruz. Villa is roaming north of Mexico City. The operations of the three revolutionary Presidents has rearoused American Press criticism of President Wilson's policy, especially his withdrawal of the troops from Vera Cruz. AUSTRALIAN WHEAT SUPPLY JUMP IN FLOUR, BRAN, AND' '■■ POLLARD. (Rec. December 8, 6.45 p.m;) ,'u ■■, Adelaide, December 3. The Grain and Fodder Board has agreed to release all 6eized wheat upon the millers' and the wheat- merchants undertaking not to export it-without the express sanction of the board. Melbourne, December 3. The Mill Owners' Association has advanced the prices of flour to JBI3 10s., bran JBB 15s„-and pollard JE9 per ton. (Reo. December 3, 8 p.m.) Melbourne, December 3. Wheat is selling at 6s. 3d. to 6s. 6d. a bushel; The setting aside of the fixed price has brougnt large supplies of stored grain into the market. ..-..LYDDITE FACTORY BLOWN UP. ■A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. ' London, December. 2. Six people were. killed and many jured at the Whitela Lyddite Mauufac- ' lory at Gomersal, j England. Buildings were shaken at Bradford,: where there was much alarm. The explosion occurred in the picric acid magazine, which was •blown into the air.- .The whole of 'the works was destroyed. ... TERRIBLE MINtNG DISASTER IN " TOKIO. ... Tokio. Deoember 2. '. -. A mining disaster has occurred in Hokkaido, the ndrthernmost island of Japan. It ia reported that 437 .miners'perished. ADMIRAL MAHAN'S DEATH. '■ Washington, Deoember 2. Rear-Admiral Mahan had greatly overtaxed Mb strength in studying tie war. He was waiting; for papers' when he died. Death was due to heart failure. His funeral was the, simplest .character, and was not a military one..SENSATIONAL LEGITIMACY LATft SUIT. ■ , ' ' ■ ■ London, December 2. A.sensational legitimacy case has commenced in the High Court, involving the well-known Slingsby estates ait KnaresboTOUgh. Charles Slingsby ia seeking to establish the legitimacy of Teddy, his 'four-year-old son. 'Two brothers .assert that the mother . is. living in British Columbia. She went \to San Francisco and had a child, which was stillborn. Sho advertised and. secured. Teddy, and foisted,him upon Charles. /J " '<' NEWS IN BRIEF. (Rec. December.3. 6.45 pjn.). ■'.'. Sydney, December, 3. The Secretary of the Labour Federation' asserts that Judge Heydon's recent judgment in regard to wages during the war forecasts the end of the arbitration sys- , tern. , The Railway .Department is testing the Brennan third rau system with a view to solving tho gauge problem.. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES -———«- —-— SHUNTING FATALITY. As a result of the serious shunting accident- which- occurred at the Thorndon railway yards early on Wednesday morn-' ing, one- of the victims, Patrick Bain, a single man, 36 years of'age, living at 96 Molesworth Street, died in the Hospital at 10 o'clock last evening. Cashmore, tho other man who was badly hurt, was reported to be in a : oritical condition. ' STRANGE DEATH OF A CHILD. (By Teleeraph.—Press ■-, ; ' - ' I nvercargill, December 3. A boy named Henderson, seven and a half years of age, went out into the bush at Mokotu to-day, and' did not return. His father, went; to ; '6earoh for him, and found the little chap hung up by a flax fibre round his neck to a tree. It ap- : peara that the boy went out with some others to play, and the -flax was tied round a tree. ,It 3b supposed he fell, and was ohoked. > ■.-•'■ An inquest will probably bo held. -