GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telograpli—Prcon Association—Copyright.. ~— « ' SOUTH AFRICAN CELEBRATION. fVjeibourne, July 15. Tho Federal Parliament lias been invited to . send a representative to the opening of ihe South African - Union Parliament. Probably Mr. Fisher, Prime. Minister, will accept it. ' CANEPIELDS ALIGHT. Brisbane, July 15. , There have been fifteen fires in tho canotields at Mosman. Partly-burned candles were found, and incendiarism v is suspected. The damage was slight. RONALD-HARPER CASE. . Melbourne, July 15. The seventh accused in the RonaldHarper perjury case, Frederick Ballingall, was found guilty and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. MELBOURNE PROPERTY VALUES. . Melbourne, July )5. /A block of land in Collins Street was sold for £947 a foot. ' SCHOOL CHILDREN'S MEALS. .#. _.. London, July 14. A .majority on the London County Coluicil defeated the Progressive party's proposal to givo free meals to school children., during holidays ' NEW YORK INDICTMENTS.. ,' New York, July 14. The Grand Jury has indicted Gressor, .President .of tho Borough of Queens, New York City,' and a dozen others, on 'charges of maladministration, PRINCE AT SCHOOL. London, July 14. King GeorgG. has desired the Prince of Wales not to receive addresses while he is a naval cadet. London, July 14. The dock hands at Avonmouth, Bristol, where a big strike occurred last moitf.li, have again struck, this . time because a federation foreman was. employed: .•.-'..: Sir William Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for Now Zealand, has been elected one of the. vice-presidents of the Royal Colonial institute. Lord Derby has given £5000 to the Liverpool Cathedral fund. Mr. Asquith (Prime Minister), Earl Crewe (Secretary of State for tho Colonies), Lord Northcote (ex-Governor-General of Australia), and other prominent men attended a luncheon given by Sir. George Reid (Australian High Commissioner) to Earl Grey (GovernorGeneral- of Canada), who has been on a visit to England, and who returns to the Dominion to-morrow, to continue in office for. a few months, when ho will bo succeeded by the Duke of- Connaught. , John Snelliug, a deputy-sheriff, charged with killing a miner during a strike at Grecnsburg, Pennsylvania, declares that he' acted in self-defence. The strikers' accuse- him of ambushing the dead man, and threaten to lynch him. Melbourne, July 15. Demetrius Morfcsse, a Greek labourer, . living at Kilmoro, attacked his wife with an axe after a drinking bout, arid then cut his own throat. Both aro in a critical state. Dublin, July 14. There is an outbreak of black measles at Templerioe, County Kerry. Forty-seven cases have been reported. Seven deaths have occurred. Ottawa, July 14. Mr.' Scott, Superintendent of Immigratiion at Ottawa, has started for England to inquire regarding the working of the new Canadian immigration regulations, to which excoption has been taken. It has been roportod from Quebec that a Canadian Northern train with 600 Bristol immigrants on board, was wrecked. One passenger is stated to have been killed and many injured, while several cars were burned. New York, July 14. Mr. Knapp, chairman of tho'United States Inter-State Commerce Commission, will meet Mr. Madoe, Chief Commissioner- of Railways, Canada, with a view to arranging a common basis of freight charges for railways crossing the frontiers of the United States and Canada. Thirteen forest fires aro raging in Montana. The town of Whitofish 'is seriously jeopardised.