CABLE-NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 638, 15 October 1909, Page 7

CABLE-NEWS.

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SURVEILLANCE OF AERONAUTS,

(Rec. October 14, 10.50 p.m.)

■L'■ '. ~ '■■ St. Petersburg, October 14. _ rearing that airships may bo used for criminal purposes, the Russian Minister of the Interior has ordered the police to attend ascents, and to establish a secret.surveillance of mombors of aero clubs. ;'

X!HLOROFORMED AND ROBBED IN A

,-■■ .■••; ,'■'■ ,■..■■■' Vienna, October 13. : lour men and three women were found ohloroformed and robbed in one compartment of the Vienna-Warsaw express., , -

' :, • .A/TALKATIVE. DIPLOMAT. '; : .',::,■.. -.New York, October?l3. , .Mr. Crane—who has been requested to resign his new appointment as United States Minister, to Peking, because he is supposed to haVo been responsible for the publication of ah article stating that America intended to protest ; against Japan's recent action: in regard to Manchuria—has now issued a statement alleging that President Taft instructed him, in disoussing the commercial and political situa- , lion in tho Far: East,-to inake his utterances red.hot." . ■ / . ..-. CAPE COLONY ' • , Cape Town, October 13. A compromise has been arrived at between the Merriraan Government and the members for the wine-produciug districts, who recently resisted the Government's treatment of E!l6 wmo industry. A Bill willbe authorising the sale of locally-produced win* on a cheap license, not subject to local option. ■Personal feeling against Ml-. J. X. Merriman, the Premier, is very strong. It seriously prejudices his prospects for tho Union Premiership. , . ; ■ . ; •■ •■,--. ■_ :, TRANS-CONTINENTAL LINE TO COST ;..'-, • , ■ JE3,988,000; -.■ . -■■_, ■■','- • ' Melbourne, October 11. -V , The report of the engineers on the transcontinental railway from Kalgoorlie (West Australia) to Port Augusta (South Australia), 1069 miles, is available. It is estimated that the line would cost: £3,988,000. AUSTRALIAN CKICKBTBRS , , PROFITS! ' , .' Melbourne, October 14. ' : A letter received from a member of the Australian eleven estimates that each memher Will share in the-takings of the tour to the 'extent of .about J530. ■',■'■-. SIR ALBERT SPICKR/ ' ■. ; Melbourne, October 14. , Sir Albert Spicer, JU , ., who was chairman of the Empire .Chambers of Commerce Conference, is a passenger by the Moana for Wellington. ■ .