GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 476, 7 April 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(ill TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) THE STATE OF SAMOA. (Kcc. April 6, 10.40 p.m.) , , . London, April 6. Advices from Apia, Samoa, state that the ringleaders of the native trouble have been quietly captured. Tho German naval squadron will make a complete tour of the Islands, with a view to strengthen their orderly condition. A KEATS-SHELLEY MEMORIAL. rr . ~ Rome, April 5. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has inaugurated a memorial houso at Rome to the memory of the English poets Keats and bhelley.. King Edward has telegraphed his sympathy with the movement. [On February 23, 1821, John Keats died at Itome, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery there; he was in his 26th year. Nearly eighteen months later-July 8, 1822-Percy Bysshe Shelley was drowned in the Bay of bpezia, Italy, in his 30th year. The body, along with that of Edward Williams, who was also in the capsized boat, was consumed on a funeral pyre in. the presence of.Byron. Less than two years elapsed before Byron too was dead at Missoloiiglu (Greece), in his 3Gth year.l UHLN'JSSJS CITIZENSHIP. London, April 6. A Keuter messago from X'ekmg reports that a new law is pending, which will forbid Chinamen adopting foreign citizenship. In the State of Delaware (United States) Chinamen are- already subjects and citizens; in other. States they are still Chinamen. THE PLAGUE. _~ , Sydney, April 6. ihe plague patient in Sussox Street, reported yesterday, is dead. (Rcc. April 7, 0.30 a.m.) Sydnoy, April 6. Another case of plague is reported, this timo at Globe. Adelaide, April 6. Two cases—one fatal—suspected to be plague have occurred at Port Adelaide PRICE QV BREAD RAISED. Molboumo, April 6. The prico of the four-pound loaf has been raised to s}d., and in some countiy places to 7d. FLOODS IN TASMANIA. Hobart, April 6. ' Tho floods in the Hiion district did damage to the amount of £5000. Many thousand bushels of 'apples wore rendered unfit for oxport.