GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 955, 24 October 1910, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

• —-—" 'SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET TEAM. Capa Town, October 23. J. H. Sinolair joins ' tho South African cricket team for the tour in Australia. WAIHI JUNCTION SHARES. London, October 22. . Waihi Junction shares are quoted on the Stock Exchange at 335. 9d.—355. BILLIARDS. London, October 23. Flaying for the Billiards' Control Club championship, Stevenson beat funian by 18,000 to 16,907. .</ THE AUSTRALIAN CRUISERS. (Rec. October 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 22. Captain Collins, Secretary to tho Commonwealth Department of Defence, states that tenders have been accepted for two of the Australian cruisers. I;.■■•■;. GORSE.HALL MURDER. London, October 21. The grand jury at Chester Assizes returned a true bill against Mark Wilde, an ex-soldier,; charged with the murder at Gorse Hall, Cheshire, on November 1 last, of Mr. G. H. Storrs, a big building contractor. • THE CORNWALL MURDER, London, October 21. j i At ; the.. Cornwall Assizes, James Hamilton'''-Nicholas', >' who was . at one time in Auckland (New Zealand) Asylum, and who killed his father, Major Nicholas, shortly after his return to England, .was declared to be insane. iv.-iiv.JHE.GISBORNE LOAN. London, October 21. ■The Gisborne loan of £175,000, at ,4 per centum, . issued at the. beginning of tho week at 100, has been subscribed. ;..;.;, : ,..,;:. ...I.; ,v "■ . • A SENATOR'ATTACKED. .'.'. New, York, October 21. A mysterious affair occurred to Senator Aldrich. It is believed he was murderously assaulted in New York. . ' •'. LOSES HIS MEMO&Y. -''• Brussels, October 22. 'Mr. R. N. Venning, the Canadian fishery expert, who has been missing since ..The Hague, conference on the fisheries question, has been discovered in a Brussels hotel, suffering from amnesia (loss, of Mr. Venning is returning .to' ; Ottawa shortly.. '. '':'' CANADIAN PROSPERITY." * 'Ottawa, October 21. ■ Canada's trade tho last fiscal year shows an increase of sixty-seven million dollars. •.'. : NOVA SCOTIA'S PREMIER. ,-.•.■■.' Ottawa, 1 October, 21. The Attorney-General (Mr. .A. K. Mac Lean) succeeds to the Premiership of Nova: Scotia. ; -.■.,■ '". ■:."■ . NOTABILITIES AT LOGGERHEADS. Ottawa, October 21. ':, The' ex-Lieut.-Govcrnor (Mr. _Dunsmuir) of British- Columbia- is going to enter a suit against the president (Mr. Mackenzie) of the Canadian/ Northern Railroad, for a million dollars' (£200,000). The action arises out of- a recent sale. 1 of coal properties.. ~: NO-LICENSE;AND.'SMOKING. , Sydney, October 22. '■ Archdeacon, Boyce accuses. .the Liquor-party of .circulating a letter purporting to emanate 'f rom'tho New jSputhj.Wales Alliance stating:—"Now. the liquor traders riihder heel,' .we want to abolish smoking."- He said thishad been dono'for the purpose of alienating, sympathy from the temperance workers. ' '■;■ .;''.'.)■*■:'''' ■■ ..'.'■'." ;■.'..;':,' DEARTH bF LABOUR AT SYDNEY. -'Sydney, October' 22. ;'-. There is a- great dearth of labour reported, both of skilled: and unskilled workers'." ■'. , ' '...,.' '"' ~. BIG QUARRY EXPLOSION. .Sydney, October 22. A monster shot, consisting of seventeen hundred pounds of explosives, was' fired at the Port Kembla quarry. It dislodged 45;000 tons' of ; stone. NEW SOUTH- WALES RAILWAYS. Sydney, October 22. . Last quarter's railway earnings were £227,174 over those of last year. The working expenses increased by £144,744. .'". "..'" :-.'..-■■.' ■•■'.'■ '; SATURDAY HALF-HOLLDAY..' ' Sydney, October 22. The' Saturday half-holiday comes into operation to-day. 1 RADIUM FOR SYDNEY. . ~. " Sydney, October 22.. The Government has authorised' the payment of a pound for pound subsidy on £2210 raised for' the purchase of radium: . POLICE INSPECTORS; SALARIES. '. Sydney, October 21. . The' salaries of police inspectors and sub-inspectors. have been increased by £20 a year each. BLIGHTED POTATOES. ( Melbourne, October 21. , Irish blight' has appeared in most of the rich potato-growing districts of Victoria. The position is serious. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. New York, October 20. Mrs. Lavin, arrested at San Francisco in connection with the Los Angeles dynamite outrage, interrogated in a police cell, declares she was ignorant of; the conspirators' plans, and denied harbouring-them. SERVIAN-PRINCE ILL. Belgrade, October 20. The condition of Prince Alexander, heir to the Servian Throne, who is suffering from typhoid fever, is reported to bo critical. .'''.', : WELLINGTON DIVORCEES. Sydney, October 21. In the Divorce Court, Janet Hastie, otherwise (Milled Schlaikier, was granted a decree tiki agairrst Hugo Schlaikier, hairdresser, on the ground that when the parties were married at. Wellington in 1906 respondent was already married.