GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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VOTING REFORM. (Rec. June 3, 10.15 p.m.) Paris, June 3. Two hundred members of tho French Chamber of Deputies met and formed a Parliamentary group for tho advocacy of proportional representation. A hundred,other members havo signified their approval. DOMINIONS DEPARTMENT. London, June 2. The first annual report of the Dominions Department of the Colonial Ofiioe. (which Department is under our recent visitor, Sir Chas. Lucas) has been issued. If gives a survey of the year's doings in the' Dominions. • EXCHANGE OF FLAGS. London,' June 2 The Milton (Kent) School has arranged to seud a tlag to the Milton (New- South Wales) school in return for the latter's flag and greetings. SCOTTISH AGRICULTURISTS' MISSION. London, June , 2. A party of Scotch agriculturists, which js to visit' .Australia, includes Sir Carlow Martin, Sir John Sinclair, Dr. S. Gibb, Messrs. R. B. Greig, Bar-, ber, Prain, Dunlop, Morrison, and Henderson. . ■ AUSTRALIAN RECEPTION. London, June 2. . At the reception given to Anghf'Australians by Sir George Reid (Australian High Commissioner) and Lady Reid, Miss Ada Crossley sang Handel's i "Largo." Other Australian singers' also sang. . MR. BARNATO'S GIFT TO THE UNION. Pretoria, Juno 2. The Union Government has accepted the gift by Mr. Solly Joel (a member of the Barnato firm and an owner of English race-horses) of Barnato Park, consisting of eleven and a half acres, with a building thereon. The building will hereafter be used as a girls' school. COST OF AUSTRALIAN OLD AGE PENSIONS. Melbourne, June 3. . The latest estimate' of the Commonjealth Treasury in connection with old Rgc pensions indicates that tho expenditure fur the past year will be close up to the original estimate of a million and a half sterling. PRICE OF BREAD. Melbourne, June 3. The price of the 41b. loaf has been • reduced to 5Jd. A NURSE GETS 14 YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Sydney, .Tune 3. Nurse Withoy was found guilty of manslaughter of a young woman by means of a certain operation, and w;u> sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude. Biiral residents are generally taller and heavier than those in towns. The colour of French official books (equivalent to the Kngli?h blue, books) is yellow; Spain, red; Germany, white;. Italy, green; Portugal, white; and Austria, red. The largest sponge ever found enme from the Mediterranean. It was ovor 3ft. across, and 10ft. in circumference. There i;i enough energy in lJlb. of rndium to drive a cruiser 6000 miles at a high speed. : Five out cf every hundred criminals in England have red hair. IN CONSTANT PAIN. NERVOUS AND SLEEPLESS. . SUFFERED FROM INDIGESTION AND NERVOUSNESS. ■ COMPLETELY AND QUICKLY CURED ■ BY DK. ENSOU'S TAIIKU JUICE.*