GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 824, 24 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Bt Telegraph—Press Association—Oocyriirht 'THE TIMES" AND EMPIRE DAT. (Rec. May 23, 10.40 p.m.) London, May 23. The Empire Day edition of "The limes will 'include articles from the Dominions on Imperial preference, the progress of emigration (from the standpoint of child emigrants), and the protralia railways in Aus-

TWO MILLIONS FOR UNIVEESiTY. T New York, May 23. Mr. lsaac Wyman, a landowner, has bequeathed ten million dollars (,£2,000.000) to Princeton University. ■

OCEAN EACE FOE MOTOE BOATS. New York, ,May 22. Five' motor boats ; left" Philadelphia . ; during a heavy storm on a race- to Havana, Cuba. This is one of the longest and most daring courses attempted bv motor craft under a hundred feet in . length. MINERS AWARDED ADVANCE OF WAGES. t i w „ London, May 22. Lord MacDonnell, of Swinford, umpiro J 1 j ~® ur ". am Conciliation Board, i miners an advance of 2i per | V . • WHITEHAVEN DISASTER FUND. m , . , , London, May 22. « # relief of the relatives J?? ? en losfc ftcir lives in totals ill 1 ,500° n P ' Whitehaven < MINER RECEIVES EDWARD MEDAL. Cape Town, May 22. Harry Bennetts, for bravery in rescuing natives who had been overcome by dfeadlv fumes in a mine at Ivrugersdorp, Transvaal, has been presented with the Edward medal. ; FEDERAL IRON BOUNTIES. „ „ Sydney, May 23. : Praotioally the whole of the bounties, amounting to .£20,736, paid under the Federal Act for encouraging the production of Australian iron and iron manufactures, have been paid to Messrs. C. and Z. Hoskins, of the Lithgow Ironworks. OBITUARY', Perth. May 23. News has been received of the death , at Cape Town of Mr. James' Price, an 1 honorary member of the Cabinet, who was travelling for tho benefit of his health. [Mr. Price was. born at Wimbledon, t Surrey, LngkuKl, m 1864. H© arrived in < Australia in 1892, and resided in South Australia for five years. Since 1005 he had wen a member of the Legislative Assembly ; in 1006 he joined the Sloor© Government,]