GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2351, 6 January 1915, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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BROKEN HILL MINES ALIEN ENEMIES- NOT TO BE EMPLOYED. Sydney, January 5. The management of the Broken Hill Central Mine has notified that in view of the war crisis and the'feeling engendered by Friday's shooting, alien enemies will not he further employed in the mine.. The bodies of Gool and Abdulla were buried by the police privately, the Mohammedans objecting to the interment in their section of the graveyard. NEWCASTLE SHIPPING - : ■ DECREASED LAST YEAR. _ . Sydney, January 5. /During the past year 5152 vessels arrived.at Newcastle, compared with 5481 for the previous year. . TRADE WITH JAPAN DELEGATION VISITING AUSTRALIA. Sydney, January 5. The Secretary of the Japanese Bureau of Commerce, accompanied by several' trade commissioners, has arrived here, with a view to promoting trade with Japan. . ' FANNING ISLAND REGULAR SERVICE' PROJECTED. [. , Sydney, January 5. The Pacific Cable Board's report states that, in. order to initiate a reguilar service with Fanning Island,' the board has placed a contract at Auckland for a suitable steamer, oostine £9000. , ■■■'■•* STATE REVENUES INCREASES SHOWN. . Melbourne, January 5. '' The .Federal Customs revenue for the half-year increased by £124,878, and postal revenue by £70,503, compared with' the previous December half-year. ,-■ _ ' ■: Brisbane, January 5. ■ The State revenue for. the ended December was £3,361,867, an increase, of £36,576. ■■?.-•. ffISSINGTRAWLER , I'BOAT FOUND. Hobart, January 5. A boat, which probably belonged to the missing trawler Endeavour, has' been picked up at Harlequin Point. The search is proceeding. JEATH COLLIERY ; RESTARTING WORK. ■ mil *r -\r.' ~ „.Sy d nfly. January 5. lie Neath Colliery, whioh was sealed up, months ago, owing to the workings being on fire, has been unsealed, the hre being out. The, mine is restarting work. _ BURNED TO DEATH A .VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. • „: Melbourne, January 5. At Wonthaggi, Mrs. Lowell went to meet her husband, leaving four children of ages ranging from throe io eight in bed.' On returning she'found the house on nre and all the children burned to death.

LOCAL OPTION '.VOTING'-IN, ONTARIO. (Rec. January 5, 10 p.m.) ■ Ottawa, January 5. _ fhe local optionists failed to win a single _ tow of the thirty-one Ontario municipalities in which the vote was taken; ' Five villages and one township adopted local option, the remainder rejecting it. ;;' COMMONWEALTH CROPS BIG INCREASE IN RECENT YEARS. .: (Rec.'January 5, 8.50 p.m.) _ Melbourne, January 5. _The Commonwealth Statistician estimates that 1 14,682,953 acres were under various cropß.at the end of 1914, an increase.of over five million acres for the;past nine years. The-wheat acreage increased from 6,269,000 acres J" 9,287,000 acres during the same period, the increase- in 1914 being two million acres. . i STEAMER FOUNDERS TWENTY-FOUR DROWNED. (Rec.' January 5, 11.30 p.m.) _„ ; Toklo,' January 5. The steamer Dartomaru No. 2, bound from Dahryto Osaka, foundered near Fort Hamilton. Twenty-four were drowned. MISSION TO THE VATICAN 'A REQUEST BY CLERGYMEN. (Rec. January 5, 11:30' p.m.) ■m. « , New York, January 5. . The Archbishops of New York, Baltimore, and. Boston have... approached president-Wilson to send a special mission to the Vatican similarly to Britain. ' ; '< /.'. . ■"■-: ; ' . , ! MEXICAN AFFAIRS ' DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS: (Rec. January 5, 11.30 p.m.) Washington, January 5. _ Sir., Cecil- Spring Rice, '• British Ambassador, has- conferred with the State Department. .He announced the receipt .of ' a dispatch from Mexico City where the conditions are described as being deplorable. The lives of Britons and Americans were saved only through the intervention of an ex-Governor when the Zapatistas entered the city

. DEATH FROM ANTHRAX NEW ZEALAND RABBITS BLAMED. <Rec.' January 5, 11.30 p.m.) ;.,,,. London, January 5. M the inquest on a butcher at Mitcham, the victim of anthrax, the cor'oner stated that-the man had handled IseTV Zealand rabbits. The evidence showed there were several other eases more or less connected whioh fto>v© occurred in the vicinity. .The Hon. T. Mackenzie, High Oommissione,r for New Zealand, wrote stating that anthrax had. not been found m New Zealand for many years

LATE CRICKET. (Rec. January 6, 1.15 a.m.) • Melbourne, January 5. Victoria .won the match against South Australia by 247 runs. Victoria Vii ™ r ? ecolld innings, made 314 (Park, 134: Ryder, 40; Baring, 49; Soutar, 24: ' j ee ?',„ M ! i 0u t).25). South Australia made 143 in their . second innings, Mayno contributing 68.