GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Br Tolegrapi—Press Association— I'omtibfix,. DREADNOUGHT FOR JAPAN. London, November 18. Japan lias ordered from London shipbuilders , a Dreadnought cruiser of 27,000 tonnage. BULLFINCH GOLDFIELD. Perth, November 18. Further good finds are reported from the Bullfinch gold field. HORSE SHOW. fieiv York, November 17. Twenty officers, representing five armies, competed at tho National Horse Snow. Colonel M'Konria, of Great Britain, was first; Lieutenant Martin, of the United States, second; and a French officer third. ■ THE NIMROD. London, November 17. The steamer Nirorod, which conveyed Sir Ernest ShacldetonV Antarctic expedition to and from the. Antarctic, is to be sold by auction on December 2. STREET BETTING. Melbourne, November 18. . A man has 'been fined £100 for street betting. • IMPROVING THE YARRA. Melbourne, November 18. The Harbour Trust proposes to spend a lnillioh pounds on improving tho shipping facilities of the Yarrn River.' BUTTER EXPORT. Melbourne, November IS. Tho export of butter from Victoria for tho past four months amounted to over ejeveu million pounds. weightnearly doublo that of last year. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. London, November 17. Lieutenant G. F. Hydo has been named for service on tho Australian destroyers. Ho will sail by the steamer Orontos. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. Berlin, November 17. The third game between Lasker and Janowslcie for tho choss championship of the world, has been abandoned. [Lasfccr won the first game, the second f,'as drawn.] A 50,000-TON STEAMER. London, November 17. Tho Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd., is inviting tenders. for a 50,000-ton steamer, with a speed of. 23 knots, to carry 3790 passengers. PANAMA CANAL. New York, November 18. President Taft is returning from Panama. He is pleased with the progress of the canal work.