GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DyTelcirraßli-PreasAasociatioQ-OpßTcicbl -Russian arW: frauds. , . , ■: • (Eec. April' 4, 1(130 p.m.) • '■, ■■'':■ -, ■.:>'■ V. St.: Petersburg, April i. Acting under instructions '■ from St." Petersburg, the police searched the residences and offices of 200 officials of the array commissariat ; department and contractors in Poland, including 130, in Warsaw.''- The police confiscated letters and '■••.. •: .-•,■■■ /: ■ ; .': ■.-'■ ■ ■ ', : "■-':■>-. EUSSIA AND HNLAND. ;■ ■ : ; •■ ■'■' ' ,' St. Petersburg; April.i'£>k.'The .'3?uinish railways' will 'be' administered by. Eussian officials, ifter. April ali ; : ; GBAIN, : WABEHOTJSB -BUEKED. ';■: i--w-,;'■■ .-, . ".-irOhdon, April- 4. — ; Dudm a grain ■ warehouse ' at Botherhithe, containing 15,000 quarters of grain, has been-destroyed b'y'fire.: The damage is estimated at .£(0,000. ' . •■-.;■

AUSTRALIA'S HIGH. COMMISSIONER. - . I.; , London, April .4; . The ■_ Colonial Institute • has arranged \a reception to Sir George" and Lady Reid, ■to; be held- on June I.':. ' • . •:.'■'.' :■';■..''COTTON MANIPULATION.;'., . ;.'■';. . ■ !:■-:[■■:,.') -London, April 3. American : manipulators ' for •■a' May "corner". , in cotton are. reshipping thouV Bands of bales from Liverpool to New. York. The steamer Baltic, takes 17,000 .bales. ' V V ~' .■■..'' V ... : ■•■"■-.'"■ . ■'• . ';'';'■ THE LATE DR. 'BARRY. '; V '■■■'■■ Lqndoni April 3. _The Bight Rev. Dr.' Barry, one time Bishop of Sydney and' Primate of ..Australia, who died at his residence; "The Cloisters," "Windsor Castle, will be buried at Worcester on '.Wednesday next. .;'/.' • :-\k MANSION' BURNED. ...,." '".?' London, April 3. Hope End Mansion occupying tho site of Mrs. Browning's home, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, was destroyed by fire. A house party lost all. their, jewels. .'They escaped in their; night attire. The damago is set down at"',£s(l,ooo.' THE CAPE DUTCH AND 'THE UNION. . '■.'■ Cape Town, April 3. At the conference of the Africander Bond at Beaufort.West, Cape Colony,-a motion (of which notice had been given) declaring that<Capo Colony was entitled to have one of its Ministers chosen us first Prime Minister of tho Union of South Africa was.withdrawn. , , ;

OPIUM SUPPRESSION. IN CHINA.! '-..' : . Peking, April 3.' A pitched, battle between the military and qpinm-growera took place in the Shanei Province, in consequence of the Chinese Government attempting to unroot poppies. Sixty persons were killed, and many wounded. LADYBIRDS BY THE TON. ■'_.■■ New .York, April 3. •Fifty-two million , ladybirds, weighing a.ton, have been reared at the State insectory, Sacramento, and sent to the melon-fields, California, in order, to kill Aphides and other pests. TOO MANY HAND-SQUEEZES. New York, April 5. • ■ At a reception, President Taft shook bands with 1700 women.: There were three hundred more present, but the President declined to do any further hand-shaking. FATAL FIRE: RESCUE WORKER'S , ■ DEATH.' ... Adelaide, April i. Wishart, the man whose hands were soverely burned on March 24 while be '.was assisting to extinguish the fire which I proved fatal to Mrs. Hiuton and two children; died suddenly in tho street of heart failure, the result, it is supposed, of shock to his , nervous system at the time of, tho fire. '. OBITUARY. ■ Adelaide, April i. The death is' announced of Miss Catherine n. Spcnce, a well-known writer on social and political subjects; ag«d 84 years. ■-.:.'. . . ■ WOMEN'S CRICKET: THE TABLES TURNED. In tho return ladies' cricket match, New South Wales topped tho Victorian score by 08, with two wickets to spare. [In tho first mutch Victoria won by nine runs, the scores boing :—Victoria, 87; New, South Wales, 78.]. . : EARTH TREMORS. '' Melbourne, April i. Tho seismograph observatory recorded numerous slight earth 'tremors between 3 and i o'clock on Thursday mcrning, and between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday morning.