GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 990, 3 December 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

' I3y Teleerauh—Presa Association—Copyright i LOSS OF THE WAR AT AH. | (Rec. December 2, 9.40 p.m.) s ' London, December 2. ; The second inquiry into tlio loss o ' the steamer Waratah will commence oi • Decembcr'ls. ; WOMAN SUFFRAGE PETITIONS, t London, December 1. During the past session 253 petitions 1 bearing 289,233 signatures, were pre i sented to Parliament in favour of cx tendiug the franchise to women. DECLARATION OF LONDON. London, December 1. The British Empire League has re commendcd submitting the Declaratio: of London, dealing with laws of nava • warfare, to tho Imperial Conference. i AUSTRALIAN LAWSUIT. London, December 1. In the . case Commissioner'of Stanr 3 Duties of New South Wales versus th - Broken Hill South Extended Mine judgment was reserved. AFFAIRS AT MACAO, t Lisbon, December 1. Tho Portuguese Government at Ms <f cao, the Portuguese colony in China, i " suspected of protecting _tho i religion " congregations. Everything is quiet. ; TWENTY-EIGHT LIVES LOST. 1 Corunna, December 1. £ Twenty-eight fishermen have bee ; drowned in a gale. s AMERICAN TRUST CASE, j Now Yorll, December 1. Tho United States Attorney-Gcner; (tho Hon. J. 11. Wickersham) has bee f instructed to begin a suit to dissolv t tho v merger of allied electrical intej - ests. - A CHURCH WRECKED. Sydney, December 2. i Considerable damage is reported i s country districts as tho result of ye; •- torday's storm. At Kempsey the Pre; j- byterian Church was wrecked.