GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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COMPENSATION • FOR LAND . ■;.• TAKEN. . (Rec. April 21; 10 p.m.) : ■■' •"'■■' London, April 21. Sir Edward Strachey, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board 1 of Agriculture, has. introduced in the House of Commons a Bill enabling compensation to be given to farmers whose lands are requisitioned, for cutting' up into small holdings., ■ ■ \ . ■ • ■ . ' .

THE QUEEN AT CORFU.' , • ■ London, April 20.

The Royal yacht, with Queen Alei andra and Princess Victoria on board, has arrived at Corfu (one of '■ the lonian Islands), where' her Majesty is to' meet her brother, King George of Greece. '■ ■ . : ■ . ', .

A FRENCH "COUNT." MADE IN LONDON. >

London, April 20.

, The police; are making inquiries regarding the- antecedents of the Count and Countess Aulby. Deglatingy, stated to be well-known French aristocrats,' who were recently arrested at Tours on a charge of having sold forged paintings to Mrs \ Paine, an American lady : living in Paris. It has,been discovered that the "Count" is really the son. of. a London tailor named Daulby. He had been living in extravagant, stylo at Tours; ' ■ ■■■,'■"'

TWO VICTORIAN BISHOPS ILL IN HOME. ;.;,.,, ■■• • '"",'"'"" "' Rome,-. April' 20. Two Roman . Catholic c' bishops from Victoria, the Bishop of. Sale (Right Rev. Dr. Corbett) ■■ and the, Bishop of Sandhurst (Right Rev. Dr. Reville), are both ill in Rome. The Bishop of Sandhurst is suffering from pneumonia, and his condition is optical. The Pope has sent his Apostolic blessing.

DOLORES TO FOLLOW CALVE. London,' April 20. Mdlle. : Antonia 1 Dolores, the wellknown singer, has etarted for Australia by way of America. She will'open her Australian season at Sydney ha June.

PENNY POSTAGE. > London, , April'2o: Mr. Honniker Heaton (of penny postago fame) expressed extreme disappointment at the refusal of the Post-master-General, (Mr. Herbert Samuel) to extend penny postage to.France.

AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND. London,' April 20. The Premier of Western; Australia (Mr. N. .J. Moore) has been touring the Midlands. Ho is now at Norwich, whore he is lecturing, and is also; interviewing likely settlers. He will' attond the West Australian dinner on May 11. The Australian High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) .will preside at the dinner.

RONALD-HARPE3B CHANGES. (Rec. April 21, 7.50 p.m.)' - Melhourno, April 21. In the conspiracy charges arising out of the libel action. Rev. J. B. Ronald v. R. Harper, M.H.R., Huxley Hill has been committed for trial. William Harper, and Walter Kemp and William Brocket (solicitors) been discharged on the ground of insufficiency of evidence. .

■ MR. E. , W. O'SULLrVAN ILL. (Rec. Aprij 21, 11.15 p.m.) • Sydney,. April 21. . Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, who represented Belmore division of Sydney, in the present state Assembly, and who was for nearly five years New South Wales Minister for Works, is dangerously ill. . ' . .

[Mr. Edward William , O'Sullivaii was born on St. Patrick's Day, 54 years ago. A Tasmaniari by birth, and a journalist by profession, he entered the New .South. Wales Assembly in: 1885 as member for Queanbeyan, which seat he held for "about 19 years, but in the present Assembly he figures as member for Belmore division,. Sydney. As Minister for Works in the Lyne and See Governments of New South Wales, a portfolio which he hold for nearly five years, he was accused of borrowing proclivities, a not altogether uncommon failing in a Minister for Works. Hβ was Minister for Lands in the Government led in 1904 by Mr. Waddell (now "fused" with Mr. Wade). It is gathered from "Johns's Notablo Australian's" that Mr. O'Sullivan .is a trustee for Captain Cook's Landing Place, Kuringai Chase, and the recreation grounds on Clark and Shark Islands in Sydney harbour, and is also connected with a number of sporting associations.]