GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

——* — : — lut m/fecrurn—rrtESS association—corrruanT,) IMPERIAL fEESS CONFERENCE. (1 . (Rec. January 21, 11.35 p.m.) ' London, January 21., The Press Conference will open with a banquet; on June 6. The events include'a gardon party tio.be given by the Prince and Princess of Wales' at Marlborough Hquse,-the Government's.official banquet, an inspection of the fleet, the Lord Mayor's banquet,' the Duke of Sutherland's reception at Stafford House, and visits to provincial towns. . THE "ABODE OP LOVE." . London, January 21. •. Dr. Kennion, Bishop of Bath and Wells,, prosecuted John Smith Pigott (of Agapemone " Abode of Love" fame), in .the \Veils Consistory Court, and applied for his .expulsion' from the Church of England on the ground of immorality and leading a sinful lite.- The Chancellor declared the charges proved. A PHILIPPINE VOLCANO. : ' Manila, January 20. •There has been a' violent eruption' of the' volcano of Lagnas i _(f), on the Island of Luzon, in the Philippines. Great' damage has,,beeu oaused by.-' the • torrent of lava. INDIAN SEDITION SENTENCES. . - . _ Calcutta, January 20. ■ 1 The printer and two joint editors of ,the vernacular. newspaper "vishravritta" have received sentences of 18 months'and 3years' hhpnsontnent for publishing an artiole inciting disaffection against the, Maharaj&h iri 6f ; Kolhapur, and abetting murder. . ... \ . AVRECKED CARGO. v , _ Melbourne, Jailuary 21., Large are being washed. ' ashor'o the wreckof the four-masted barque Falls of Halladalo, which went ashore near Capfe Otway in November last. The cargo found includes thousands of cases of . kerosene. The Customs' authorities. are .destroying these.- They also proposo to bum much valuable timber, which formed part of th 6 cargo, because it has not paid dutj, • RALLWAYMEN ACQUITTED. , ' i .. Sydney, January 21. , Bourke, Fowler, and Corr have been acquitted on, the charge of.,manslaughter of ;Costello, in connection with the Zig-zag rail- ■ vviy- aocident on December 8. [A passenger ahd goods train broke away on the Zigzag, and, running back, collided with a • stationary ■ goods train, the guard of . which' (Costello) was .injured and subsequently died. The three accused' were respectively driver, fireman,' and guard of the runaway, train.]. OBITUABY. r , t i Brisbane, January 21. Mr. John Leahy, Speaker'of the Queensland 1 Assembly, died 'suddenly from rupture or a blood vessel. in : the stomach.. : t \ [Mr. John Leahy,. Speaker of the Queensland LegislativeAssembly;' was born- in ' Schull, County Cork, Ireland, in July, v lßs4.' According to Johns s;Notable Australians,". 1 he arrived' in Australia in 1874, and, pushing into the interior of Queensland,, settled at Thargomindah'in 1878. He took considerable interest in local affairs, was chairman of the Divisional Board, and in 1803 was returned, to the Legislative. unopposed, for the far-back constituency of;Bulloo (in area'as large as the State, of Victoria)—a constituency he'continued' to represent. On the. first'oooasion on which he addressed the House he brought about a oVisis; on the. Border, Tax Bill, loading to, the resignation .of the M'llwraith Government, whioh, immediately ; after'wards 'reconsidered its deoisionj and .ftontinued in office He was Minister for Railways and Public Works in tho Philp Government, February,. 1901-September, 1903. He was largely interested,; in pastoral matters, was the, Queensland the Australian Estates and' Mortgage Co., Ltd., direotor of the Queensland Meat Ex- ! port .and Agency Co., Ltd., and president of the. Woolbrokevs' Association. He had been: president; of the Brisbane Chamber of Comimerce.]' h ': : - - ' RECALL OF A FRENCH CONSUL'. 1 ' • * Melbourne, January 21. ii'-ii 0 ? 3 ' Maistre,"' French Consul at Melbourne, who was recalled by his; Govern-, ment ijv cprisequeiice of f representations made .through the British Ambassador in Paris, is returning'.to. France to explain the position. • [According to cabled advices of, a few.,diys ago, it is alleged that, the • British Ambassador wag misled into bringing the matter under the notice of the French Foreign"Office.. The trouble arose out of. dissension ainoiig the mem- • er lr°it • Alhknqe- Francaise,- a Frenoh society in Melbourne* to which the' Consul belongedj] RAIN, IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, January 21. Good general rains are falling. ■ ..lONIC'S IMMIGRANTS. ' -. ' Hobart, January 21. The lonic will sail for New Zealand at 10 a.m. on Friday. There are eighteen passengers for Australia,. and 701 are proceeding to' New Zealand. • '■ ■■ l ' ■