GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 845, 17 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph-Press Association-GoDjrieht . IN HONOUR, OF THE UNION. - (lice. June 17, 0.30 a.m.) London, June 16. Sir Geo. Reid, High Commissioner for tho Commonwealth, gave a luncheon in honour of Sir Richard Solomon, High " Commissioner for tho Union of South' Africa (and formerly Agent-General for the Transvaal). The gathering was held at the Empire Club. Among those present were the Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Crewe; the High Commissioner forCanada, Lord Strathcona; the High Commissioner for New Zc-aland, Mr. HallJones ; and the Agents-General. Other Australians and ijiouth Africans attended. AN' ENGLISH AEROPLANIST. London, June 16. ! Mr. Grahame White, the Englishpianist who unsuccessfully competed with'. M. Paulhan in the London to Manchester flight, biplaned from Crystal Palace ■to Brooklands track iu twenty minutes. He generally maintained a height of on» thousand feet. MB, COLLINS IN CAMBRIDGE - ELEVEN. London, June 16. Mr. Collins, a New Zealander (son of . . Dr. Collins, of Wellington), has been awarded a crioket blue at Cambridge. NEWNHAM LADIES' COLLEGE. !■- London, June 16. Mrs, E. M. Sidgwick is retiring front the principalship of the Newnham Col-i ; lege, Cambridge. Miss Stephen, vi>'.e« principal, succeeds. WHITEHAVEN RELIEF FUND. Pretoria, June 15. . The Rand lias contributed JllOO to tli® "Daily Mail's", fund for the relief of; the relatives'of the 133 miners who lost: thoir lives in the Wellington pit, White-' haven. SOUTHWARD HOl' London, June 15. Captain Scott's Antarctic ship Terrs Nova has sailed. She was accorded an, enthusiastic send-off, ■ LADY LOST FROM A LINER. ' London, June 15. The newspapers report that on Juns 8, during a dancc on board the Aberdeen liner Miltiades, which left Sydney on. April 28, one of the passengers, named Alice Mary\ Thorpe, who-was returning to Norwich, was missed, and that * search for her proved unavailing. PICTURES FQR MELBOURNE. London, June 15. The trustees o'f tho Felton bequest! ; (by which the National Gallery, Melbourne, benefits) have purchased for J!150 three, water-colours — "The Leopards* Siesta," "A Lioness Resting," and "A' Lion Walking"—by the late J, M. Swan, A.R.A. PASSENGERS ROBBED. Sydney, June 16. ■ ' ■ It transpires that, prior to the Maramal : leaving Sydney, a number of passengers wore robbed of clothing nnd cash to the oxtent of i! 55. ' • A WIRELESS DEPOT SHIP. • Sydney, June 16. The Naval authorities have decided to convert the .Torch (a sorew sloop of 9GO tons) into a wireless depot ship. Tha vessel will shortly be fitted with the lati • est apparatus. TASMANIAN LANDS DEPARTMENT : Hobart, June IG.' The report of the Royal Commission into the working of tho Lands Depart- ; ment shows that the administration been honest and intelligent. Donald-harper case: Melbourne, Juno 16. The remaining accused in the'. RonaldHarper conspiracy case have been acquitted. James Paton, a witness, was , ordered to be imprisoned for fourteen - : days for prevarication. [Robert Harper, M.P., and Williams \ Harper were acquitted a' few days ago, .' Tho remaining, accused, now acquitted, are William Brockctt and Walter Kemp (solicitors), and Patrick Hill and John Huxley. In connection with the sam 6 charges; Hill was previously found guilty, and is now undergoing a sentence of five years and nine months.] FORESTRY IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, June 16, In connection with the work of forest conservation, the Forestry Department : will this winter plant a million young trees. It oxpeots to have four million trees available for next year. N.S.W. NO-CONFIDENCE DEBATE, Sydney, June 16. The debate on tho; motion of n<v* confidence in the Wade Government, moved by the Loader of the Labour ; Opposition, Mr. M'Gowen, is still drag- ; ging along. BRITISH ASSOCIATION. Sydney, June 16. A meeting, presided over by the Lord ■ Mayo.r, the State Governor (Lord Chelmsford) W-hiK present, decided to ask Air, Fisher, Commonwealth Prime Minister, to invite tile British Association for the : Advancement of Science to visit Australia . for its next session. [The 1 not) meeting of the British Association i'or the Advancement of Science : was held at Winnipeg. Jt is proposed lo bold the 1010 meeting in August at Sheffield, and Portsmouth has been sugv . gestcd as the meeting place in 1011,] QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT. Brisbane, Juno 16. ■ Tho State Parliament will meet on : July 12. ;