GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 909, 31 August 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telecrapli—Presm Association—Copyrisfcl, ' « — THE WAKEFIELD MEMORIAL; (Rec. August 31, 0.15 a.m.) London, August 30. Sir Frederick Young, vice-president of tho Colonial Institute, in a letter to "The Times," warmly supports tho movement in New Zealand to erect a memorial to Edward Gibbon Wakefield. EAST AFRICAN SHIPPING TRADE. London, August 30. The Union Castle and German East Africa lines have entered into further worldng - agreements, defining their respective spheres in the East African service. , . SIB GEOEGE WHITE ILL. London, August 30. Field-Marshal Sir George White, the defender of Ladysmith, and Governor of Chelsea Hospital since. 1904, is critically HEAVY RAIN IN, ENGLAND. , London, August 29. ■ There has been twenty-four hours' torrential rain in England. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. '. London, August 29. The British Board > of' Agriculture has revoked all orders with reference to the recent outbreak of foot and mouth'.disease among'.cattle in'several places in Yorkshire. ■ ' BIG FLIGHT OF, PIGEONS.. London, August' 29. Ten thousand pigeons raced from' Bournemouth to Birmingham. /LEVER BROTHERS. • London, August 29. Lever Brothers' steamer Ivulambangra has been launched on the Clyde. She is to cruisc between Sydney and the South, Sea Islands, where Messrs. Lever have extensive properties.. '. CHOLERA IN, GERMANY. Berlin, 'August 29. . Two eases of cholera occurred at Spandau,. in the province, of. Brandeiiburg, Prussia. One proved fatal. GERMANY AND'POLAND. , . Berlin, August .29. Prince Eitel • Friedrich of Prussia (second son of tho Kaiser) and his wife will permanently reside at' Posen, Prussian Poland, 1 where: a fine Imperial 'residential palace has lately been erected. SOCIALIST CONGRESS. Copenhagen, August 29. Tho International .Socialist, Congress hais opened here. Herr Bebel and Herr Singer, German leaders, are unable to bo present. • A CLEVELAND MEMORIAL. . ' New York, August 29. A sum of £15,000 has been raised for tho erection of a tower as a national memorial to the late Grovor Cleveland, twice President of the United States. Tho tower is to be erected at Princeton, where Sir. Cleveland lived after his second retirement from, the White House.

PEER'S DAUGHTER'S TRAGIC DEATH. London, August 29.. Tho body of Lady Marjorie Erskino, one of the daughters of the Earl of Buchan, has been discovered on the course at Aviemore, Inverness. The young lady had been missing, for four weoks. It is supposed she died from exhaustion. after a mountain climb. , LIFE ON THE PLANETS. . . New York, August 29. Professor See, of the United States Naval Observatory, at Mare Island,, California, declares that after ten years' research ho is convinced that the planets are inhabited by intelligent beings. 1 . CLEMENCY IN KOREA, t ' • Seoul, August 30.. Nine hundred prisoners have been released by the Japanese authorities as an act of clemcncy in. taking possession of Korea... ,• MONUMENT TO LORD MINTO. Calcutta, August 30. Tho Maharajah of Gwalior has headed a fund to establish a park at Allahabad to commemorate the services of Lord Minto, the retiring Governor-General of India. , .

TSAR IN GERMANY. . Berlin, August 30. The Tsar and Tsarina are staying at Friedburg Castle, Hesse. TUT/RAO STRIKE EXTENDS. ' Madrid, August 30. The dockers and carters at Bilbao have struck in sympathy with the minors, who oame out some time ago. . FRENCH OCTROI FRAUDS. Paris, August 30. Twelve octroi (inland Customs) officials arc implicated in frauds totalling .£200,000. They were handsomely bribed to permit the free withdrawal of goods. THE RANDWICK TRAGEDY. Sydney, August 30. John Brown, the eon of Nurse Brown, who was arrested ■in connection with the death of tho girl O'Brien at Randwick, has been brought before the Court, and remanded on a charge that while knowing that Nurse Brown did feloniously, kill Miss O'Brien, he afterwards assisted her. Bail was refused. "WIRELESS" FROM PAPUA. Melbourne, August 30. The Flemington Meat Company has received an order of meat from the Papuan authorities. The order came by wireless messngo transmitted by warships. GALE IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, August 30. A terrific gale was experienced at Riddell, thirty-fivo miles from Melbourne. Buildings were wrecked and trees and telegraph poles blown down.