GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 867, 13 July 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Vresn Association—Copyright. .— : 1— — : NAVAL MANOEUVRES. (Rec. July 13, 0.50 a.m.) London, July 12. Lord Kitchener has embarked on the cruiser Drake to witness the naval manoeuvres.

The Drake belongs to the hostile fleet, which is endeavouring to land on the north-west coast of Ireland.

King George will visit Portsmouth at the conclusion of the manoeuvres.

CANADIAN CROP PROSPECTS.

(Rcc. July 12, 10.10 p.m.) Ottawa, July ,12. The crop reports from the Canadian prairie provinces state that the position has improved. The indications are that the wheat harvest will be smaller than that of last season.

EXTENSIVE REPAIRS.

Sydney, July 12. The French gun vessel Kersaint, 1223 tons displacement, has arrived from Noumea to undergo general repairs, which are estimated to cost £20,000.

KING AT' ALDERSHOT.

London, July 11. The King and Queen are at Aldershot for a week. The King is watching the troops training. There will be no ceremonial parades. , .

DIAMOND SMUGGLING DENIED.

Berlin, July 12. The story of the diamond smuggling in Damaraland, 'reported yesterday, has been officially denied.

'■ .. Melbourne, July 12. The population of Victoria at the end of last year was 1,297,557, an increase for ,tho year of 24,244 persons. The excess." of births over deaths accounts for 17,113 of the increase, and immigration for 7131.

London, July 11. ■ Vinsyak Savarkar, the Indian student recently extradited on a charge of sedition ... India, and who is now on his way /to that, country, escaped through ono of the' portholes of the steamer Morea, at Marseilles. He was recaptured. .■_... :

London, July 11. The High Commissioner 'for Australia (Sir George lleid.) attended, a civic banquet at Bradford, Yorkshire. During a speech, Sir George,, referring to trade matters, said that the more other countries closed their markets against Great Britain the more she thrived. She had a magnificent knack of'minding her own business, and she was not to bo beaten.

London, July 11. The Governor-General of Canada, Earl Grey, who has been on a visit to England, is returning to the Dominion on Friday next. Mr. H. AV. Just, Assistant Under-Secretar> v of State for the Colonies, will accompany him. London, July 11. Plans are' being prepared for a dry dock at Glasgow to accommodate the largest Dreadnought. Vienna, July 11. Guiseppo Colpi was sentenced to six years' penal servitude at Vienna, for robbing the Triesto Bank, for the purpose of aiding his friends among the Italian Irredentists, who aim at the incorporation with Italy of neighbouring portions of Austria inhabited by Italians. Sydney, July 12. Last night a man entered an Italian fruiterer's shop in the hcarj: of the city and presented a revolver at the -shopkeeper. The man then emptied the till, securing several pounds, and decamped.