GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Associatiok—Copyright, THE ROYAL FAMILY. (Rec. July 25, !).4o p.m.) London, July 25. The King, at tlie termination of his visit to Portsmouth, sent a warm'message to tho Fleet, expressing liis satisfaction at the high state of efficiency and zeal displayed by both officers and men in tho rccent manoeuvres. The Queen-Mother is expected to visit Ymunden, Austria, on. July 30, and -will probably stay some weeks. CANADA'S NAVY. London, July 25. The Admiralty is inviting 91 men of active service ratings to volunteer for appointment to the Canadian cruisers Niobo and Rainbow. MERCHANTS' AND SHIPPERS' LINE.

London, July .25. . "The Times," in its comments on tho Merchants' and Shippers' Steam Ship Line, winch proposes to conduct a .servico between Australasia and America, states that it is an interesting departure, constituting as it does the, first Commonwealtli-owued overseas shipping company. . MORE LIVERPOOL DISTURBANCES. toncloß, July 25. Numbers of Irishmen at Liverpool, whero religious feeling rlms ] 1 jg U) at . tacked tram-cars wherein Orangemen were returning from' a demonstration at St. Helens. Thirty arrests have been made. AMERICA'S PRESIDENT. ir ■*, rr J? aw Yorh ' Ju] y 25. ■ Mr. W. H. Taft, President of the United States, sprained his ankle while golkug, and is suffering' considerable pain. ' CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, July 25. Tho town, of Novorossiysk, a Black Sea port on tho Caucasian coast, has' •been declared to be infected with Asiatic cholera. a AVONMOUTH STRIKE OVER, m, , , ' ;f-ontlon, July 24. m■l n, ? striko -at. Avonmouth (Bristol) has been settled. The federation men will withdraw on Wednesday next. "'

CORONATION PAGEANT. T , . London, July 24. it is announced that representatives oi the Dominions will take a prominent part m. the pageant at the Kind's coronation. SEAMEN'S GRAVES DESECRATED. London, July 24. A party of Somalis' disinterred tho bodies of several bluejackets which thov burned. They defiled the skulls. NEW CUNARDER, „,, _, ■ London, July 24. I . l ': 6 n ™ Steamship Company's lS,(J00-ton steamer Franoonia has been launched at Wallsend. VILLAGE SLIDING DOWN-HILL. Paris, July 24. Owing to the undermining by quarrying of a picturesque hillside, the village of Tillc has been evacuated. It is sliding into the river Marnc. HARVEST HANDS IMPORTED. • Berlin, July 24. German farmers arc importing; a quarter of a million labourers, chiely Poles and Galicians, to reap tho harvests. . TURKISH OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED. Constantinople, July 24. The Director of Customs at Uskub on tho borders of Albania, has been assassinated. UNITED SOUTH AFRICA. .. n . „ . Pretoria, July 24. the Union ■ Parliamentary elections will bo held on September 16. THE MACAO PIRATES. Peking, July 24. Tho Chinese authorities aro asking the Portuguese to hand them forty pirates captured at Colowan (Macao), which island was recently occupied by the robbers, who were afterwards driven out with somo loss. ADVANCE IN FLOUR. m, ™ Sydney, July 25. The Flour Millers' Association has advanced tho prico of flour by ten shillings a ton. COMMONWEALTH AND AMERICA. Melbourno, July 25. The Commonwealth Government is sending samples of wheat to the Dry Farming Congress, to be held shortly in America, and will endeavour 'to encourage immigrants from the United States. NEW SOUTH AY ALES MANUFAC-' TURERS. Sydney, July 25. Manufacturing establishments in New South Wales increased by 165 last, year, and employees increased by 3111.