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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2381, 10 February 1915, Page 6

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BURIED ALIVE FOR 25 DAYS. i Rome, February 8. Michele Cailo, a peasant, after being, buried for twenty-five days in the ruins at Paterno, was rescued, unhurt. He had had only water to sustain him sine* the earthquake. BELGIAN MINISTER. AT LONDON RESIGNS. London, February S. Count de Lalaing, Belgian Envoy Exi. traordinary at London, has resigned owing to ill-health. NEW SOUTH "WALES'WORKS LOAN. Sydney, February 9. In the Assembly the Premier ' (Mr. Holman) stated that the arrangements; for a loan for public works with Norton Griffiths had practically reached ' finality. He added that no difficulty, would bo experienced in obtaining legal authority for the transaction. : GOOD RAINS IN INDIA. ' London, February ?. The "Times's" Delhi correspondent! reports that good rains have fallen in the northern, central, aud western tracks, and are steadily extending to the Punjab.' The United Provinces show a much larger area under wheat, good germination being universal.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) OBITUARY. London, February 8. Obituary.—Lord Londonderry. [Lord Londonderry was an aide-dfr.) camp to the King. He was PostmasterGeneral from 1900 to 1902. His heir is Viscount Castloreagh.] STATE LIQUOR FOR THE NORTH-' | ERN TERRITORY. [ Melbourne, February _9. - The Federal Government" has decided to take tho liquor trade of the Northern Territory into its own hands, owing to tho fact that the men employed on railway construction are being supplied with bad liquor. MR. ARTHUR ADAMS, PLAY- • WRIGHT. (Rec. February 9, '7.15 p.m.) , Sydney, February 9. Mr. Arthur Adams, tho New Zealand writer, latterly of the Sydney "Bulletin" and "Lono Hand," t has just had two plays accepted—"Mistress Pretty and the' Premier" by Mr. Arthur Bonrchier, of London, and a children.splay t by Mr. Beaumont Smith, for ' Australasian production. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, SYDNEY. (Rec. February 9, 7.15 p.m.) Sydney, Febniary 9. ■ A movement is on foot in Laboul 1 ranks to restore Sydney Government House, shorn of a portion of the grounds, as the residence of the Govnor, and erect a suite of especial apartments alongside for the use of the Gov-ernor-General when visiting Sydney. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. (Rec. February 9, 7.15 p.m.) Perth, February 9. John Eath, a farmer at Kojonujj, has surrendered to the police, and contessed to killing his wife m a domestic quarrel.