GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 987, 30 November 1910, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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KING EDWARD MEMORIAL FUND. (Rcc. November 29, 10S0 p.m.) London, November 29. The King Edward Memorial funds in London have reached £32,500. EXPLOSION OF BENZINE. Berlin, November 29. Four tanks, containing a million and three-quarters gallons of benzine, exploded at intervals of half an hour, and destroyed much property. Thousands witnessed the spectacle. TSAR'S YACHT SUNK. St. Petersburg, November 28. The Tsar's yacht Marevo has sunk near the Admiralty Palace. It is believed the sinking was wilfully caused. KING. ALFONSO ' UNWELL. (Eec. November 28, 9.30 p.m.) Paris, November 28. King Alfonso of Spain has undergone a slight operation at Bordeaux for a throat trouble.. FATHER OF THE CYCLE TRADE DEAD. London, November 27. The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Humber, father of the English cycle trade. KING HAAKON IN ENGLAND. London, November 27. King .Haakon, of Norway, has joined Queen Maud at Sandringham, King George's residenco in Norfolk. FRENCH MAIZE SHORTAGE. Paris, November. 27. After promising to suspend the duty on maize for a year, for the purpose of feeding cattle, and pigs, in view of the 'failure of the potato crop, the Government has re-examined the question, and declined to remit the duty, owing to the impossibility of preventing the employment of maize in .distillation and for starch manufacture. CHESS' CHAMPIONSHIP. ■ Berlin, November 27. In the match for the chess championship of the world, Lasker has won four three have been drawn, and Janowski has failed to score. NEW SOUTH WALES RACING.

• (Eec. November. 29, 0.25 a.m.) . Sydney, November 29. The entries for the Carrington Stakes include Golden Slipper and Poi Dance; and Tattersall's Cupj Golden Slipper and Artillerie. . ._■

'gamblers arrested. New York, November 27. Twenty-nine arrests were made in a raid on a New York; gambling club. A LYNCHING IN FLORIDA. New York, November 27. A man named Richard Tonel, who was found in a. woman's room at Mayo, Florida, was lynched by the townspeople. : .CANADIAN -UNIFICATION.

Ottawa, November 27._ Mr. M'Cluren, an American, editor, in a speech at Ottawa; favoured reduction of the status of the provinces of Canada, so as to make the Dominion a real nation, and not a collection of semi-sovereign States. < SEVERE EARTHQUAKE. Sydney,' November. 28.' 1 The French steamer from New Heb-< I rides and New' Caledonia reports that a severe earthquake occurred recently ,at Port Sandwich and Canal D'usegord. Several. buildings were destroyed, and small craft oscillated and were almost overturned. . j '} ; ; 'i'.';: "Civil service pat. ~,., ,i\.:, Melbourne, November 28:.'.. ':Increases-,;will, lie .made in the wages' of the lower paid branches of the Federal Civil; Service totalling-, £43,000.. ''"DESERVED TO'.BE DAMNED. 1 ' ! . I "■'."-, Sydney, November 28; Speaking at. a gathering at_ Westmead, Archbishop Kelly said that if Australia! declared there should be no religious! teaching in schools sho deserved _to be damned. -■"... '■-.•'-. •'•. CHRISTMAS LETTERS'BLOCKED:' • Sydnay, November 28. Owing to the heavy Christmas rush 10,000 lettevs which should have gone by the English mail - wero delayed at the Sydney Post Office-' as- the Tesult of a. short-handed staff., -' A PEEft'ON-TOim, .. Brisbane, November 28. ,' The Earl and Countess of Harrowby arrived here-by the ilaiiuka.- The Earl's mission is to study and investigate land, agricultural and irrigation matters. ' [The-Earl is a partner in Coutts and Company's Bank. He is 46 years of age, and sat in the House of Commons as member for Gravesen'd (Conservative) from 1898 to 1900-1 . A BANK FAILURE. London, November 28. The directors of the London Trading Bank expect to be able to pay the creditors in full. LOSS OF- THE ABHONA. ' London; November 28. A quantity of flotsam belonging to the steamer:'Abhona, -which foundered in the Mediterranean last week, has been found on the Spanish coast. THE KING AND INDIA. • Caloutta, November 28. Lord Hardirige,' Governor-General of India, said he hoped King George would visit India a year hence. SUGAR TRUST ACTION. New York, November 28. An action has been begun in New York to dissolve the sugar trust. BLOWN TO ATOMS. \

Now Yor!i, November 28.. Five men were blown to atoms, and nine other's entombed beyond recovery, bv a gas explosion in the Cocktaw Asphalte Company's workings in Oklahoma. . THE CAPE UNIVERSITY. . Capetown, .November 28. The University favours the development of a National Teaching University from the existing system.. NOT UNDERSTOOD. Melbourne, November 29. Mr. W. M. Hughes, Acting Federal Premier, replying to English criticisms of the land tax, declares that the facts are not understood. WHIRLWIND AT MELBOURNE. Melbourne, November 29. A whirlwind at Port Melbourne considerably damaged several buildings. A MINING DISASTER. Sydney, November 29. A fall of eartli' in the Proprietary Mine at Peak Hill, 272 miles west of: Sydney, buried an elderly, miner. for twenty hours. His mates had to put in a new drivo to rescue him. AUSTRALIAN DESTROYERS. Perth, November 29. The destroyers Yarra and Parramatta have sailed for the cast. • POISONED AFTER EATING BEETROOT. Perth, November 29. Tlireo children were poisoned at Bunbury through eating beetroot. Two of them died. The caso is mysterious. . GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. Brisbane, November 29. In- an explosion of gunpowder at Messrs. Perry : Bros.' store three men were injured and considerable damajre was done. ' . . ■'