GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 806, 2 May 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrieht THE NEW GOVERNOR'S TITLE. . (Rec. May 1, 5 p.m.) > London, April 30. The title of the new Governor of New Zealand (first given as Baron Islington, then as Baron Ilsington) is in the London Gazette. Sir John Dickson-Poynder, the Gazette states, will in future be known as Baron Islington (in the County of Ijondon). [Ilsington is a village in Devonshire. Islington is. a parish of the County of London, 2} miles north of St. Paul's.] • THE GOVERNOR'S STAFF. London, April 29. The private secretary to Lord Islington, the new Governor of New Zealand, will be Mr. Robertson Kerr Clark, aid the aide-de-camp Captain Makgili Chrichton Maitland, of the Grenadier Guards. NEW ORIENT LINER, - London, April 30. The Orient Company has ordered a mail steamer similar to the Orvieto (built, by the company under the Australian mail contract) from John Brownand Co., of Clydebank. LORD GLADSTONE SAILS. London, May 1. Lord . first Governor-' General of the Union, has sailed for South Africa. DEATH OF VATICAN SACRISTAN. , ' Rome, April 29. Monsignor Pifferi, for fifty years Sacristan to the' Vatican, is dead. He . died in the Pope's arms. SENTENCED TO DEATH. . London, April 30. Jesshope has been- sentenced to death. 'J.he defence contended that tho crime was consequent on' hereditary epilepsy. was cabled from London on March 29:+-That a man named Jesshope, a former employee of the Empire Theatrei ' Camberwell, stabbed Healey, a stage carpenter, to' death after last night's ' performance.] vv ■ ■

AN EARL ON OUR LOTTERIES LAW. _ London, April 29. . presiding at an art union drawing in London, the Earl of Plymouth complained that the New Zealand law made it illegal to receive subscriptions for a Pnza drawing. He hoped the New Zealand Government would remove • the difficulty, as Canada had done.' A NEW 'ZEALAND ARTIST. London, April 29. .Among the colonial artists exhibiting at tho Old Paris Salon is Miss Jrancis Hodgkins, a New Zealander. A PICTURE PURCHASE. London, April 29. r -The_yelton trustees have purchased tL' •! >?^ ts . picture, "Industrious rnpilß/ for forty guineas. A SYDNEY'APPEAL CASE. , ~ „ ' London, April 29. In the New South Wales • appeal case Hordern versus Hordern, judgment was reserved by the Privy Coun- / tes P on " on t'B counsel was not called on. HOSPITAL SATURDAY IN SYDNEY. Tk j , Sydney, May 1. ine oity and suburbs wore yesterday delivered over to an army of Hospital Saturday collectors. The total collections, including donations,' aro £7500 it-oo .collections amounting to £6138, gainst £6669 last year: but 8 a donation of £516 from Sir E. Shackleton. AUSTRALASIA TO BE SHORT OBOATS. ; tu ..c j, „ Sydney, April 3o.'' The-"Sydney Morning Herald"'predicts a scarcity of oats and high prices, as forthcoimng supplies from every centre of the States are restricted. New Zealand has a shortage at six million bushes, and Victoria of three million bußheJs, while the whole of the Tasmanian stocks are already said to bo held by big grain merchants. IRISH BLIGHT IN A BAD FORM. mi ft ■' Sydney. April 30. The Government expert confirms the report that _ tho potato cfops in tho Hunter district are suffering from Irish blight in a bad form. DEATH PROM ANTHRAX, Sydney, April 30. At Gilgandra, 292 miles north-west of Sydney, ,a man named Maguiro died from anthrax. N.S.W. STATE ABATTOIRS. . Sydney, April 30. The New South Wales Government has accepted a tendor for tho ' new Metropolitan Abattoirs at Homobush Bay. They will bo completed in two years. The contract price is £153,765.