GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

;■ . ■■ ■"■■ ■ 1 Bγ Telegraph-Press Assooiation-OoDTtight 1 LADY ISLINGTON. i (Rec. June 27, 10.30 p.m.) \ ■'■'■■ London, June 27. i Lady Islington lunched to-day ■ with ' King George and' Queen Mary at Marl- ] borough House. , ! THE, VICTORIA LEAGUE. London, Juno 26. ' The Queen has become patron of the Victoria League, which was established in .1904 to further a better understand- , ing between residents in.the different Bri- ' tish dominions. ; • . ' SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN ! : DROWNED. London, Juno 26. A boatful of Sunday school excursion- ] ists capsized in Turnberry Bay, on tho ] west coast of Ayrshire, and five were ( drowned. LE.FT OUT IN THE .COLD. • ' London, Juno 26. . Mr. D. A. Thomas, Liberal M.P. for " .the Cardiff district, will I retire _ from politics at tho next election. He is ap- > parently discontented because be was not 1 included in .the Birthday honours list. . ■, PHIL. MAY MEMORIAL. "■ ] : ■ ■ London, June 26. Mr. E. T. Reed, the well-known artist i on the staff of "Punch," in unveiling a tablet to the memory of Phil May, tho clever black and whito artist, at Leeds, remarked that no artist had ever sacrificed more beautiful work for the bare needs of existence. . OFFICER'S DEATH. , London, June 26. Captain Hugo Frank Henry was found dead in a garden at Bath. Besido him was a revolver. He had previously been in great pain from bee stings. He served with the New. Zealajiders in South. Africa. ' DISASTROUS HEAT WAVE. St. Petersburg, June 26. ' There has been a prolonged heut wave in South Russia. Crops, meadows, and orchards are withered.. HEAVY MORTALITY LIST. Paris, June 26. • 'An inquiry with regard to the rail- : way collision . between an express and a slow train at the Villepreux station,west of Versailles, shows that twenty-four persons were killod and / forty-ono injured, ] while three aro missing. ■ .-" ] GOVERNOR OF KHAEBIN ' • WOUNDED. I St. Petersburg, 'June 26. ' The Governor of Kharbin (Manchuria) caped. SHUTTING DOWN ON COTTON. • / New York, June 26. The representatives of 58 Carolina cotton mills have agreed to cease production entirely- for four weeks in July anti August. . ■ [In February last it was stated that all tho cotton mills at Fall River (Massachusetts) except one had' agreed to curtail production by shutting down for one day in each week for an indefinite period. Twenty-five thousand workers were affected by tho - decision.] IRISH BLIGHT IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, June 27. Three districts of Victoria havo been quarantined owing to outbreaks of Irish blight among tbo potatoes. MILLAIS PICTURE SOLD. London, Juno 26. Sir John Millais's "Chill October," painted in 1871, was sold at Christie's far 4800 guineas.