GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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PANAMA CANAL ZONE FREE DISTRIBUTING CENTRE FOR ALL COUNTRIES. (Rec. December 16. 10.20 p.m.) Sydney, December 16. Mr. Nielson, New South Wales Trade Commissioner in America, lias cabled to the Premier, Mr. Holmau, stating to have succeeded in securing a decision from the. United States Government that the Panama. Canal zone is to he a free distributing ceutre for the trade of all countries. ITEMS IN BRIEF . MINE DISASTER IN JAPAN. Tokio, December 15. By an explosion in a coal mine at Fukuako 800 miners were entombed. AUSTRALIAN FILM-MAKING PROJECT. Sydney, December 16. The prospectus o£ the Australian Moving Picture-Players, Ltd., Las been' issued. The capital will bq £8000. Tito company's purpose will be the production of films including Australian history, the landing of Cook, and early colonisation.

INDUSTRIAL UNIONS IN AUSTRALIA. Sydney, December 16. Australian industrial unions inoreaßed to 710 in 1913, and tho membership to 497,925. CABINET MINISTER'S LIBEL ACTION. Perth, December 16. The Attorney-General has accepted the apology of the editor of the "Cygnet" for alleged libellous statements. ' OLD AGE PENSIONS IN THE ' COMMONWEALTH. ; Sydney, Decerabor 16. The Fedoral Senate lidb passed a Bill to appropriate five and a, half million pounds' for old age pensions. '■- OBITUARY! MR. R. K. THOMAS, OF THE ADELAIDE "REGISTER." (Rec. December 16, 11.45 p.m.) ' Adelaide, December 16.' Mr. Reginald Kyffin Thomas, one of the proprietors of the newspaper "Register," has succumbed to tho effects of a motor accident. SYDNEY'S DEAR LOAF. " :.. (Rec. December 16, 10.20 p.m.), Sydney, December 16. A meeting of the master bakers protested that the increased price of bread is not commensurate with the increased price of flour and the cost of prb.duction. / ■ ■ ■ .