GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 524, 3 June 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Inv THIiEnitApn—PIIE3B ASSOCIATION—COPYftIdUT.I : b .' PRESS CONFERENCE DELEGATES. (Roc. Juno 2, 10 p.m.) /. 1 : , p . : ' : •;London, June 2. . iho newspapers devote much space to interviews with tho.Australasian press delegates concerning Australasian pofitios, trade, agriculture, immigration, and defence. , transvaal"bills, v t , r, 1L , Pretoria, Juno 2. ix>m bolborne, High Commissioner, in opomng the • Transvaal Parliament, announced legislation restricting botting and tho of betting news, also Bills dealing with lotteries and money-lending. SUICIDE OF AN OFFICER. « .• . „ London, June 1. Captain .H. W. Duckworth, who was wounded at. Spionkop during the South African 'War, committed suicide in'a hotel m London. Deceased was a nephew of Canon Duckworth, and of Sir Dyce Duckworth j the well-known physician. PERSISTENT, SUFFRAGETTES. ■ ~ . London, June 1. ihe, Prime. Minister,; Mr, Asquith, who is spending the Whitsuntide in Devonshire, .was interrogated by suffragettes'after aer_vice.at Clovolly Church. Subsequently they again waylaid, him,-.though lio was unuCr police protection, and seized his arm while he, was golfing on private links. Melbourne, June 2. It is calculated that of 328,000 women in the State who are' eligible not more than onefourth_ had secured elector's rights up to last night—the last opportunity of enrolment. ; PROFESSIONALISM DEFINITION.. 'm) , Sydney, June 2. The' Amateur Sports Federation has decided that professionals in other branches of sport shall be allowed to play as amateurs in football. , RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. : . '■ Sydney, Juno 2. . A soaking general rain is falling. The prospects of winter feed aro bright. . »■' / LATE SHIPPING. Sydney, June 2. Sailed, at 2 p,m,, Mokoia. ' Adelaide, June 2. Sailed.—Ashmore, for New Zealand. . _ Brisbane, June 2. Arrived.—lndraghiri, from Auckland. Melbourne, June 2. Sailed.—Warrimoo. , BERI-BERI. Sydney, Juno 2. • Another member of tho crew of the ship Sophie (which Jiad previously lost two seamen through beri-beri) is dead.