GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright - STATE LABOUR BUREAUX. /■ (Eec. April 6, 8.50 p.m.) Ottawa, April 6. ' The Government ' of the Province of Quebec is establishing, labour bureaux- . in' the principal cities, free to tiose seeking work. This step jb due to the extortions of privite agencies. . " . ■ ' !

CAUSE OP A RAILWAY DISASTER. London, April 5. An official report on the railway disaster' at Stoafs Nest, near London, which resuited in seven deaths, shows that it waa caused by a wheel of one of the carriage* sliding qn the axle. The Government inspector urges that severe railway tests for gripping wheels to axles should be made.

SUI'FEAGETTB'S VAIN VIGIL. ' , London, April 5. In time to prevent a disturbance during the debate in'the House of Commons 6a Mr. Asquith's resolutions regarding the Lords' Veto, the police discovered a welldressed Suffragette hiding in the ventilating shaft of tho House of Commons. She had been there for thirty hows. FINANCES OP SCOTT'S SOUTHERN , EXPEDITION. London, April 5. '• At a meeting in Liverpool in connection, with Captain Scotfs .Ahtarctio Expedition, an appeal was made for ,£6OOO to complete the ,£40,000 required. The sum of A'llls was immediately subscribed. ■ STAGE DANCER'S BIG SALARY./ London, April 5. In the course of a lawsuit, against {tuth Saint Denis, a dancer,'it was .stated thaf she received '.£270 weekly under 'hei: London engagement. • '

PAYMENT SUSPENDED; i London, April 5. The Union Bank of Brooklyn, with a/ ' capital of a million dollars, ah estimated* surplus of 669,000 dollars,. and deposits, : totalling 5,500,000 dollars, has payment ' . " , PETROL.TRACTION ENGINES. Ottawa, April 5. During the Canadian artillery manoeu-" yres at Montreal, the authorities success- " fully experimeijted with petrol traction. Engines. A speed of seven miles an hour was attained. Tho cost of tractian is said) to bo only one-fiftieth that of horses. ETNA SLOWING DOWN. Rome, April 5. Mount Etna's activity is lessening in * marked degree; . CRIMINAL LAW IN ALASKA. ' New York, April 5, The Federal Court of Alaska is to» cruise 2000 miles aboard a Revenue cutter, . m order to try and sentence prisoners. The prisoners will be stowed aboard the ■ vessel until, the end of the cruise. Lawlessness is frequent' at the salmon*, cannerios. ALLEGED SPIES. " New York, April 5. • The tyro Japanese.recently arrested at* Manila, on charges of espionage, hava. been deported to the Japanese islaniL Formosa. [According to Tecent cablegrams, two ' . Japaneso arrived in Manila, and bribed n member of the American Engineer Cofpi to tjiko photographs and secure plans of the placo. Upon the affair, being discovered, the engineer revealed everything. Japanese residents of Manila declared that their compatriots, who were placed under arrest, were acting for a European, Power.]

FUNERAL HONOURS TO THE LATH' MONOPLANIST. Paris,, April 5. There was an imposing demonstration at San Sebastian while the body of M," Le Blou, the aeronaut, killed by a fall from a monoplane, was being taken to th'e station on tho way to Paris. The streets were lined by troops. The shops were closed; and thousands followed the coffin, REDUCTION VOTE IN ADELAIDE, Adelaide, April 6. In Adelaide district the Local Option, vote gave a large majority for reduction* AFGHAN MURDERER EXECUTED. , Sydney, April 6'. Hadji-Khan,, an Afghan, was executed: for the murder of a fellow-countryman in November last. Death was instantaneous* / ' ■ THE LATE BISHOP BARRY. Sydney, April 6. A largely-attended , memorial service to Bishop Barry.was held in St, Andrew's Cathedral. TRAMCAR COLLISION. Sydney, April 6. Two crowded trams collided in. Clepft,. land Street. Five passengers wera rather severely injured, and several sus> tained slight ipjuries. EARTH TREMORS. Perth, April 6. Several earth' tremors were registered at the Observatory between March 31 and April 1.

COUNTESS OP RANFURLY WRECK, Sydney, April 6, Noumea advises Itiat Lloyds' n»ent b proceeding to tie wreck of the ecJiooner Countess of Hanfurly. There are no further details. FEDERAL ELECTION ROLL. Melbourne, April 8. t The total of electors oin the Federal 1 rolls for the forthcoming eleotions ia 259,891. FIRST BUILDING ON FEDERAL CAPITAL AREA. ■ Melbourne, April- fi. Tho first official building proposed to' bo erected on the Federal capital site is an observatory on Mount Strongixvw, 2600 feet above sea level. Hhe GOTernK mcnt is considering the erection, of .temporary observatory pending -theoam-* plotion of a Dermaneat cuw, "