GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 832, 30 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Prews Association—Copyright,

C ■ BRITISH INTERESTS Iw MANCHURIA.

(Rec. July 29, 10.35 p.m.) London, July 29. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying in Parliament to Mr. G. Stewart, Unionist member for Wirral, declared that in the event of Japan, annexing Korea, the Government would study the best means of safeguarding British commercial interests.

STEAMER ASHORE.

. London, July 28. The steel screw steamer' Agamemnon, 7011 tons gross, ' belonging to the Ocean S.S. Co., Ltd., is ashore at Cloughey, County Down, off the north-ea-stern coast of Ireland. .'She has a Glasgow cargo for Australian ports. It is expected that tho vessel ■ will ; be refloated. There is several feet of water in two holds.

cyclist's long journey.

Perth, July 29. Birtles, the cyclist, who has ridden overland from the eastern States, has arrived at Turnkey Creek. He suffered great hardships, and had several .encounters with tho natives.

FINANCIER'S CRIMES.

Paris, July 28. Roclictte, ai Parisian financier, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for embezzlement and infringement of the Company Law. _ Several of Rochettc's associates. were sentenced to minor punishments.

QUITO OBSERVATORY.

Paris, July 28.

The French Academy of {Science has accepted the gift of the Quito Observatory.* ■■■'■■.

MEDICAL CONGRESS ON SOUR MILK.

London, July 28. •There was keen discussion at the British Medical Congress concerning the sour-milk treatment. Many speakers condemned it.

CANADIAN CROPS.

London, July 29.

Router's Agency states the crops in Alberta and Manitoba have been salved from the drought.. \.

HURRICANE KILLS FIVE PERSONS.

St. Petersburg, July 28.

A hurricane in Bessarabia killed a man, two women, and two ' children. The lower part of Kishiueff has been inundated. N

A CANADIAN CELEBRATION.

London, July 28.

"The Times',' Toronto correspondent says that King George and the Presidents of Franco and the United-States will bo invited to tho celebrations in conneqtion with tho centenary of tho peace between Canada and the United States, concluded by , the Treaty of Ghent in 1814.

EMPLOYEES BRANDED,

London, July 28.

It transpired during the visit of a deputation to the Board of Trade that the Shipping Federation stamped strikebreakers with indiarubber stains before, employing them.' It was asserted that 10,000 men were so'branded at Antwerp, during the dock strike..

ST. PETERSBURG HARBOUR.

St. Petersburg, July 28 v The tiarbour.eanal has been deepened

>v 2G feet to permit of the entry of warships.-

STRIKERS FIRE ON POLICE.

New York, July 28.

Strikers, mostly Poles, at the American Sugar Company's works, Brooklyn, exchanged shots with the police. One was killed and two wounded.

CUBAN REVOLT ENDED.

Havana, July 28.

The Rural Guards have . captured General Minier. and several of his followers. The insurrection ,is quelled.

PRICE OF BREAD,

Melbourne, July 29. The price of the two-pound loaf will bo raised from threepence to threepencefarthing on Monday next. .

THREE SETS OF TWINS.

. Sydney, July 29. • Three sets of twins were born at Mittagong, a small town, within a week.

MINERS' DISPUTE.

Sydney, July 29.

' The officers of tlio Miners' Federation state that they will withdraw from the AVages Board owing to the judgi's refusal to dissolve the board, with the view of removing Mr. Paterson, the employees' representative. -

London, July 28. The "Morning Loader" states that Philip, Bernstein, a forger sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in ,1902, has been released. The Hon. Margaret Phillis Partington, a widow, died at Cowes, having apparently been poisoned. She had been in the habit of taking drugs fo sleeplessness. Mrs. Farrington was engaged to am Army officer. At the inquest a verdict of death by misadventure was returned. Berlin, July 28. Three hundred and twenty-five German school teachers from various parts of the Empiro were shown tho Navy dockyards at Kiel. New York, July 2S. A striko in the building trades in Chicago affects 18,000 persons directly, and 10,000 indirectly. London, July 29. Ameeting'of mombersof the Houso of Commons has resolved to- ascertain tho Government's views as to the desirability of inviting representatives of each Dominion, and colonial Parliament to the Coronation. silver. . . London,: July 28. Bar silver is quoted at 24gd. per ounce standard. ;