GENERAL, CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL, CABLE NEWS.

By Teloeraph-Press Assoclotion-OoDyrliht I ♦ ORIENT as. COMPAHT.

; (Roc. February 18, p.m.) London, February 18. • . Orient Steamship , Company'a 2. e ™ :P ? r oent. debentures for >£630,000 has been covered. . The, issue was at 95, and was nndorwritten. ■ SIR J, H. RETD. ■ London, Febrnary ' 18. Sir George Reid, tho High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia, who is now on; his way-, to take up his duties m London, _ inll be - entertained by. the Royal Cqlomal Institute .at a 'banquet on March 15, at; which Lord Crewe, the Secretary .of . State for -the: Colonies, will preside. ] :■ LONDON CHILDREN AND EMPIRE DAT. • ■" ' - London, February 18. Ihe City Corporation i has decided to arrange -for' the holding' qf an assembly at the Guildhall on Empire Day of the' .children attending tho elementary, schools' in London. .' '.; BOSNIAN CONSTITUTION SIGNED. . Vienna, February 18. ■>? e ®®P?. ror Francis Josef has signed a Constitution. for . the . provinces of Bosnia; and Herzegovina,' annexed from Turkey, in 1908. ' ; CHINESE FORCES FOR LHASSA! • Peking, February 18. ine Chinese Government has sent .2000 troops to reinforco the garrison at Lhassa, Tibet, ' ;: : RAID BY SOMALILAND MDLLAH. -m, ; 1 Cairo, ■ February 17. The ,Somali Mulla]i raided the Miiertain tribejimeh, killed many, and cap- , tured 4000 camels. ■ ■ ' '. -|» a section of opinion in India that the British; should take more vigorous measures til protect friendly "tribes in bomallland :;zrom the MullaVs attacks.] ; -. '

RUSSIAN" CAPITAL'S ITRST MOSQUE. m , - St, Petersburg, February 17. ■ J-'ne Emir of Bokhara opened the first mosque at St. Petersburg. It: is a handsome edifice. BOY SCOUTING AS AN AID TO EMIGRANTS. London, Fobruary 17. . General Sir R, S. Baden-Powell is asking the colonial immigration authorities to offer facilities of emigration to boy scouts who have passed efficiency tests in ■ dairying, farriery, and carpentry. SCOTT'S ANTARCTIC PITTANCES. ■ London, February 17.: A meeting of citizens at Manchester subscribed -CI 000 towards Captain Sootfs Antarctic expedition fund. . SCULLING. ; /'. Hobart, February. 18. ; The New Zealand scullers who are to tnko part in. the. championship regatta arrived in good condition. BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA. • Melbourne, February 18. Destructive bush fires are raging in the Moe district, Gippsland West. A PURCHASE FOR BANK PREMISES. mL . Sydney, February 18. The Savings Bank Commissioners have purohased the Royal Hotel, in George Street, for. .£60,000, for, tho purpose of erecting banking premises. \ '