GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 868, 14 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegrapn—Presn Association—Copyright.. { GERMAN NAVAL MANOEUVRES. (Hoc. July 13, 9.50 p.m.) Berlin, July 13. Tho German high seas fleet, consisting of thirty battleships ami cruisers and fifty torpedo boats, hat left Kiel for a practice cruise in northern Norwegian waters. ELECTIONS IN MANITOBA. J Ottawa, July 12. I The- Manitoban elections have resulted in the return of 29 Government supporters (including all the Ministers; and twelve Oppositionists. ITALIAN FINANCE. Rome, July 12. Italy's surplus for the financial year was .£1,157,561. The weekly lottery produced £5,717,000. PIGMY RACE IN PAPUA. Sydney, July 13. Mr. Shorhidge, a member of the British Museum expedition', now in New Guinea, reports the discovery of a race of pigmies. They are four feet high, and are described as timid and harmless. VICTORIA'S POPULATION. Melbourne, July 13. The population of Melbourne at tho end of last year was 51)2,300. Victoria has 14.20 people to tho square mile. IRELAND AND THE NAVY. London, July 12. In the House of Commons, Mr. Jolin Dillon, Nationalist member for Mayo En"t. has [riven notice to move for a reduction of two million pounds in the shipbuilding vote. , SHAM BARON SENTENCED. London, July 13. A man named Ruhman, posing as a German noble, and calling himself Baron Wcsterliagen, bus been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at the Yorkshire assizes for frauds on women and for bigamy. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. London, July 13. Colonel Soeiy, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying in the House of Commons to Mr. I"'. Snowden, Labour member for Blackburn, stated that Lord Crowe, Secretary for the Colonies, was addressing a communication to Canada concerning the hardships arising under the immigration regulations, with their stricter financial requirements. THE KING'S COLONIALS. London, July 13. It is officially announced that the King's Colonial Yeomanry will in future be designated "King Edward's Horse (the King's Overseas Regiment)." ARGENTINE MEAT TRADE. London, July 12. A new shipping company is being formed. It will employ nine steamers of the most modern design in the River Plate frozen meat trade. SUBMARINE RAMS GUNBOAT. New York, July 12. During naval manoeuvres off the coast of Massachusetts, tho submarine Bonita rammed the gunboat Cnsline (1117 tons displacement), which was beached, and thus prevented from sinking. BOATING ACCIDENT. Cairo, July 12. Seventeen men of tho Scottish Borderers Regiment wero 'sailing on the Nile near Khartum when their boat was shuck by a squall. Three were drowned. MEMORIALS TO ICING EDWARD. Calcutta, July 12. The Bombay Presidency has decided to erect a King Edward Memorial Hospital, nlso a sanatorium for consumptive^. CANADIAN STEAMER SERVICE. Melbourne, July 13. Tho direct service between Montreal and Australasia was inaugurated, by tho arrival of the Kakaia. POTATO BLIGHT EXPERIMENTS. Melbourne, July 13. The Government pathologist successfully experimented with a method of purifying potatoes . affected by Irish blight. The potatoes were dried in a kiln at a temperature sufficient to kill tho blight spores without diminishing the seed value of the tubers. VICTORIAN CAUSE CELEBRE. Melbourne, July 13. All six of the persons accused of perjury in connection with the RonaldHarper case pleaded guilty. Sentenco was deferred. DROUGHT IN NEW GUINEA. I Sydney, July 13. 'i'h'ere lias been a drought in Germnn New Guinea for the last ten months. It is seriously affecting the copra crop. Rubber is now being extensively cultivated, and ii small export has already begun. GERMAN WARSHIPS IN PACIFIC. Sydney, July 13. The German China Squadron (which consists of one liiM-class and three thirdclass cruisers) en rimlo to visit the Samoa and other German Pacific possessions. BRISBANE GAS STRIKE. Brisbane, July 13. The strikers have resumed work, pending a conference (his morning. ENGLISH FOOTHALLEK. ORDERED OPE. Sydney, July 13. As a result of rough play in to-ilny's match, one of the Englishmen was ordered oil the held.