GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 545, 28 June 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By. Telegraph;-?reß3 ; ASsoclalion.-OopyrißM.) ".' .'.' , •;-''.■ '■'~ . ' »'.' ". " ;.'?■'■- vV./".>".--A.-'

KING RECEIVES RUSSIAN DUMA >■ DELEGATES.

(Roc. Juno 27, 5.5 p.m.) London. Juno 26. King Edward and Queon Alexandra received tho delegates from the Russian Council of the Empire and Duma. . MORE PEOPLE NEEDED AND LESS . LAWS.- ...,„.„ London, June 26. Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, late Governor of Now South Wales, interviewed on his arrival at Liverpool, said that so far as tho jvoalth of New South Wales was concerned, it had only boon scratched. Tho country roluircd moro population and fowor laws, PRESS DELEGATES. _ _ London, Jnno 26. The Press Conference delegates and their ladies ' nttendod tho Marchioness of Lansdowno's King's Birthday rccoption. GEORGE MEREDITH'S ESTATE. _ ' London, Juno 25. Tho personalty of tho late Gcorgo .Meredith, tho author, has been sworn at £K2,180. INDIAN GRIEVANCE IN TRANSVAAL. 0 . . .... . , Pretoria, Juno 25. bixty Asiatics in tho Transvaal have caoli boon fined sixty pounds, or thro* months' imprisonment in default, for burning their registration certificates. MURDER OF A PARIS MILLIONAIRE. d i i • -r, , Par,s > Juno 25. ' ltonard, who, in February last, was sen-1 tonccd to penal aervitudo for life for murdering his master, M. ltemy, a Parisian millionaire, but whoso conviction was quached on technical grounds, has been retried on tho nam© charge, and again sentenced to ponal sorvitudo for life. RESTRICTION~OF~LOTTERIES. ' ir n, '-r. ' Par,S ' Juno 23M. Clemenccau. -French Premier; lias intraduced into tho Chamber of Deputies a Bill Mr tho total suppression of lotteries, except tnoso promoted by tho Government and by public companies. • .

J: :. ; POSTED AS MISSING;'.'.•: ,i ; ; ™- n'*-^ : Sydnoy, 1 Juno 26. " .in© British ship which: sailed from Moxico for. Sydney on November 25 last, and has not, since been heard of. has been posted as missing.'. ■•-.■" -.■■.. . i[Thß steel ship Australian, "2103 tpns.iross, 2 s . h !" l £ n ™ 7 - nt Port Glasgow; iinSh 270.5 foet; breadth 40.5 feet,, deptli 23.6'foft 1 : PHYSICAL TnAININO IN SCHOOLS.. • '■; . '■:: , '.'■',■ '•--..'i Melbourne, Juno 26.' ,A n ,:,intcr-btato.,conference, on military odiiMtion has bccii'held, at:wJiich tho phvsic.il training of schoolboys in relation to tboir Qtacss as.cadets was discussed. 1 It was d<c cided to recomrriirl.; tho; appointment 'of geiwral, super.-! :- (1 I/training at .tuv centres fy:. th.- i, ul n lng , of physicaT-in-structors, and tho provision-in tho schools, curriculum of an approved system of physical training, for teachers and scholars. ■■:.".

STILL MISSING. n,, ' , , tl .Hobart, Juno 27. , alio scaich for tho missing boat (containing tho, mate and six men) of the wrecked Isorncginn bnrquo Orleans lias so far been fruitless.