GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 828, 28 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By TeleEraph-Press Assoeiation-CopTrisht &NTI-GAMBLING BILLS IN NEW YORK. (Rev. May 27, 9.45 p.m.) ~ New Yorh, May 27. Mr. C. E. Hughes (Governor of New York State, and a Judge-elect' of the United States Supreme Court) has, contrary to expectations, won a decisive, victory' in the ' final passage, through, both Houses of the New York State Legislature, of. Bills prohibiting oral betting at races, and maldng directors of racecourses criminally responsible for gambling thereon. ■ , ■ • EARTHQUAKE IN CENTRAL EUROPE. Berlin, Mav 27. An earthquake violently shook several towns and villages in .Western Ixerniany, Alsace,. and Switzerland. CORONATION-600 TROOPS FROM '. CANADA. „. ' Ottawa, May 26. Six hundred Canadians have been Selected from various, regiments throughout the Dominion to go to fcaigland for King George'B coronation , ceremonies. >

DANISH FRAUDS: EX-PREMIER ■ CHARGED. _ . Copenhagen, May 26. the impeachment of M.M. Christen- {* n ; an d Berg iu connection with the Zealand Peasants' Savings Bank frauds ft? Wuch.'M. Alberti, ex-chairmau of the Bank, and formerly Minister for Justice in a Ministry lieadod by M Chnstensen, is the central figure) will commenco before a State tribunal at Copenhagen. BURGLARS' JEWELLERY HAUL. London, May 26. Burglars ransacked the premises of bawrence and Lawrence, jewellers, Cheapside, and stole several thousand pounds worth of diamond rings and BARQUE REGARDED AS LOST. ' ah i. i i Sydn , ey ' May. 27. All hope has been abandoned with gard to tho barque Princesso Marie - rin* 1 ? 115 S^. OBS ' ° uiit "> 1893 )> which left Sydney for Smoky Bay in February, and has not since been reported. STRIKE ON RAILWAY WORKS. -.: , , , May 27. Jrtvo hundred men employed on the Blue Mountains railway deviation works have struck owing to their pay bein" stopped for last Friday's holiday

EXPRESSION OP CONTRITION.' Berlin, May 26. Lord Saye and Seloi presiding at a meeting of the Association for the Abolition of Vivisection, expressed profound contrition that a moment's pain Should have been given Queen Alexmdra by the association's leaflet on vaccine. A new rule is to be adopted to prevent a recurrence of such an incident. CAMBRIDGE HONOURS. London, May 26. Mr. Roosevelt was accorded a great reception by the undergraduates at Cambridge. He received an honorary Dpctorship of Laws, Owing to the mourning for King Edward, Mr. Roosevelt was the onlv public orator, and the vice-chancellor (Dr. Mason)' alone appeared in robes.