FRENCH STANDARD TIME.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 5

FRENCH STANDARD TIME.

Paris, December 22. • The Chamber of Deputies has discussed the adoption of Greenwich time. ; [Paris time is 9 minutes 20.G seconds earlier than Greenwich.]; GRAIN ELEVATOR COLLAPSES. St. Petersburg, December 22 A grain elevator at Nikolaieff has collapsed, burying 30 men, of whom five are dead. A SEVERE EARTHQUAKE. m Svdney, December 22. The steamer Makambo brings news of' a severe earthquake at the Island. of Espirutu Santo, in the New 1 Hebrides, on November 13. A store and other buildings were wrecked and the natives greatly alarmed. No lives were lost. NEW SOUTH WALES OAT CROP. Sydney, December 22. The Government statistician estimates tho oatcrop at 1,820,000'. bushels from an' area of 253,329 acres. Last year the yield was 1,966,588 bushels from 271,110 acres. GOVERNOR OF FIJI. London, December 21. Sir F. H. May, Colonial Secretary of Hong-Kong, has heen appointed Governor of Fiji iand High Commissioner of tho Western Pacific, in place of Sir Everard im Tliurn, who has resigned on account of ill-health. AVALANCHE KILLS SIX MEN. . Innsbruck, December 21,. . Tho fall of an avalanche at Landro killed sis soldiers. STORM IN NEWFOUNDLAND. •• Ottawa, December 21. A storm is sweeping the coast of Newfoundland. It is believed there have been disasters among the shipping. SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE. Sydney, December 22. Lord Chelmsford, the Governor, opened tho Rawson Institute for Seamen, which has been reconstructed and improved in memory of the late Sir Harry Rawson, formerly Governor of the State. HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. Sydney, December 22. /At the Police Court to-day a woman, sentenced as an inebriate, had her 328 th conviction for drunkenness recorded against her. It is many years since she spent Christmas out of gaol. THE BROOKLYN TRAVELLER. New York, December 21. Dr. F. A. Cook, of North Pole fame, is expected to arrive at Now York on Thursday, on board the North German Lloyd steamer George Washington. -' ' '