GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2436, 15 April 1915, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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FIRE AND EXPLOSION DISASTER IN THE SHETLAND ISLANDS WHOLE TOWN SHAKEN ' • London, April 13. 'An outbreak of fire occurred at Ler< wick, Shetland. Five persons werel killed and forty injured. . (Rec. April 14, 10.35 p.m.) • The cause of the outbreak of the fire has not been explained. An explosion followed. Tho authorities were aware of the danger of any people remaining in tlie vicinity of the fire, but were unable to clear the district quickly, enough. •. ; ; /. i Every building in the' town was shaken in a terrifying manner. The main street was wrecked anda thousand windows were broken by flying pieces of iron.

LABOUR AND THE UPPER .. -HOUSE NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER . . HECKLED. (Rec. April 14, 8.15 p.m.) Sydney, April 14. The Labour Conference has discussed the question of the Upper House. Mr.Holman (Premier of New South Wales) was severely heckled foj promising appointments to men who had not signed the Labour pledge. Mr. Holman stuck to his guns, and appealed to the conference to leave the matter in the hands of the Ministry. If they were unfit to discharge a task of this' kind they were unfit to be in power. • Tho conference resolved that no one shall be nominated for- the Upper, House _who has not been a member of an affiliated 'union for three years previously, and who has not been paid a recognised standard wage in a particular industry or calling during those three years. CABLED NEWS IN BRIEF COLLAPSE OF A JAPANESE COALMINE. Toklo, April 13. As the result of the subsidence of a. coalmine near Shimonoseki (a:Japanese port at the south-west extremity of the main island) three hundred persons are missing. LAST OF THE ILL-FATED CLIPPER DUNBAR. • Sydney, April 14. The death is announced of James Johnson, sole survivor of the wreck of the clipper Dunbar, which was wrecked on the rocks near Sydney on August 20, 1857. with the loss of one hundred and twenty-one persons and cargo valued at £22,000. Johnson was the sole survivor.

AUSTRALIAN-BTJILT ENGINES FOR THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL.--Sydney, April 14. " The Federal Cabinet has placed an order for twenty engines for the transAustralian railway with a Queensland' firm, DYES FROM ENEMY COUNTRIES. . Melbourne, April'l4. The Board of Trade has revoked all licenses for the importation _of dyes from an enemy country. It is considered that Australian requirements can. be supplied by England. LONDON'S LOAF AT BJD. London, April 13. The price of the quartern loaf will be raised to BJd. in London 011 April 19. SILVER MEDAL FOR NEW ZEALAND APPLES. London, April 13. The New Zealand Government's excellent display of apples was awarded a silver medal at the Royal Horticultural Show at Westminster. 'AUSTRALIAN WORKERS' UNION. (R-ec. April 14, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, April 14. The Industrial Court has dismissed an application to cancel the registration of the Australian Workers' Union. LATE SHIPPING. (Rcc. April 15, 0.10 a.m.) Newcastle, .April 14. Arrived —Koromiko, from Auckland.