GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telesraph—Press Association—CoDrriahl THE PIRAEUS INCIDENT. (Kec. June 29, 9.45 p.m.) Bukarest, Juno 29. The Rumanian Government has accepted the indemnity offered by Greece, in connection with the recent Piraeus incident, when the ship on which the Rumanian Crown Princess was travelling was looted. The ringleaders have been committed for trial at Athens. CANADIAN "GRAFT" SCANDALS. ; Ottawa, June 29. In connection with the "graft" scandals - - in the Government Printing, Bureau, in which it is alleged that the State has been defrauded of it now. appears that the Superintendent of Stationery, F. S. Gouldttrrito, who disappeared, has com- < mitted suicide at Detroit. . - HOULDER BEOS.' CLAMS. London, June 29. The Newport Municipality has paid Messrs. Houlder Bros., the steamship owners, ,£IOOO as demurrage for the delay in tho loading operations of their steamcrs during the arbitration of the recent dispute. CANADIAN HARVEST. Ottawa, June 2J, Tho drought in Canada is threatening to do serious injury to tho crops in tha western provinces. ALLEGED CHINA FRAUDS. London, June 29. Arthur Thomas Ellis, the Bond Street dealer, charged with misrepresentation in connection with the sale by him of old china to the late Mr. Charles Dickins, has been acquitted. LIFE-SAVING SOCIETY. London, June 23. King George has become patron of the Royal Life-saving Society, and Lord Desborough president. UNDER-SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. London, June 2S. Sir Arthur Nicolson, Ambassador at St, Petersburg, has been gazetted Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, in succession to Sir Charles Haxdiuge, who was recently appointed Viceroy of India. [Sir Arthur Nicolson entered the Foreign Office in 1870. Tho earlier part of his career was passed in minor diplomatic posts at Berlin, Peking, Constantinople, Athens, Teheran, and Budapest. He was Minister in Morocco from 1595 to 190-1, and was then appointed Ambassador at Madrid, holding that post till his removal to St. Petersburg in 1906. Sir Arthur Nicolson is CI years of ago.] ACCIDENTS IN MINES. London, June 28. Mr. C. F. G. Masterman (Under-Sec-retary to the Home Office) introduced in the House of Commons a Mines Accidents Bill, providing that roscne apparatus and the training of rescue parties at mines shall be compulsory. TOBACCO TRADE FALLS OFF. • London, June 28. Tho clearances of tobacco, the duty on which has been increased from 3s. to 3s. Bd. per lb., show a decrease for the year ending April 30 of 9,124 ; G191b. AUSTRALIAN CADETS ABROAD. London, Juno 2S. The Australian High Commissioner, Sir George Reid, has arranged with the War' Office that a quarter of the Australian cadets, whom it was recently arranged should visit Britain, shall be accommodated at tho Chelsea Barracks. AMERICAN WHEAT ADVANCES. New York, June 2S. Owing to disappointing crop reports from the Norlh-Wost, July wheat in Chicago rose from %i cents to 100J cents. - SOUTH AMERICAN ANARCHISTS. Buenos Ayres, June 2S. A Bill has been adopted providing for the punishment of Anarchists in the Argentine. It provides for the infliction of the death penalty even ui»n minors guilty of fatal outrages. SIR HENRY WRIXON. Melbourne, Juno 29. Sir Henry Wrixon, who has been president of tike Legislative Council of Victoria since 1901, and who fennerly hold a 'number of Cabim*t posi'iioiis, has retired on the ground of ill-health. WHITE-GROWN SUGAR. Brisbane, June 29. Practically 90 per cent, of tire Queer* laud sugarcano last season was cut by white labour.