GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrl^h^.*. ■'•■•■ — -~ «-——,;,■ j"> : ENGLISH■ PROPERTY; VALTJES, ; -V 1 (Rec. January 1, 5.5. p.m.),. .'.■<.:■ !'••' London, December 31, y /' xThe real estate business done in 1918' amounted to ,£5,094,0(10, as compared withi £6,SUM in 1909. Farnts of from.loo.to/ 500 acres alone maintained the ean}e;leveJ' of prices as in the previous year.. PERU AND ECUADOR: .."'''■ ;'1 ' ' ■ London, December' 31; ; . "The Times" Lima. rarrKpondentistaietf that the mediatory Powers.have advised'' -Peru to submit the Ecuador boundary dia* •' pute to The Hague Arbitration Court ..-/ ■ \ ■"',4:..WEEK'OE PRATER; - London, December 31. . The Evangelical Alliance is arranging .a. universal week of prayer with the idea, ef 'drawing together the churches., isjonary societies, and Christians of th* Icvvilfsed world. _____ : ' ' ; . 'POOR HARVEST. IN 'CAi?ADAy ■'•;.'.: •■■'•■'•:■•.''■'. ' --Ottawa, !. The wheat,: oats, and barley harvest ia Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and' Alberta to-j; tailed 270,000,000' bushels, a decrease of, 87,000,000 bushels as compared with, last year. ■.-';'. . '7 ; - : \; NEW TEAR'S EVE IN STDNET. '~ '.'..-■ -.■■', Sydney. ■ January 1. . .■ New Tear's.Eve was quietly celebrated; in Sydney, •. the police "being; vigilant to^ prevent rowdyism. .:- .;"'";;/ CHINESE PIGTAILS'.;-;'.; -.. ■ "i ! ..': . Peking, December .31. •. The recent memorial by the Imperial Assembly requesting that ill diplomatists,, - officers, students, soldiers and sailors shalli: beqrdered to remove their.. queues,' hasf been rejected by the' Throne. '■• -'.;.-'-j

FEW BANKRUPTCIES IN BRITAIN. j London, December 30. _ The number . of. insolvencies in Great Britain during 1910 was the lowest for '2? years. THE EL EERAK RISING. , ' ; Constantinople, December 30. ' The Bedouins at El Kerak-'are'offering. to submit to the Turkish authorities and' restore arms 'arid other loot; . They: anj also ready to pay an indemnity. ' : . ' NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE. ... .. Sydney,. December 31. y The Under-Secretary for Mines, in--his report, refers to a marked.depression,iai.. the coal trade, which is principally ■ noticeable in the decline of shipment w-.. oversea ports. ■ ~ '.V----i AUSTRALIAN PROSPERITY. Sydney, December: SI. ! Statistics published by .the Master; Builders' - organisation show that the] building trade is booming in the capitals* of each State. All kind? of labour are 1 ' scarce. CHOLERA RIOT. Rome, January 1..' A cholera riot occurred at Tarnntbi The police were stoned bv the crowd, and retaliated with revolvers, killing three persons* TRAM AND BUS COLLIDE. ■ London, January 1. A tramcar collided with and wrecked an omnibus in Goswell Road. Twenty persons injured; several of'theta;'"soverely. ■.» ■ . CHINESE PIG-IRON. ■ J,'/, Sydney, December 35.-_ The steamer St. Albans, from Chinnihas brought 700 tons of Chinese-miinufaw/. tured pig-iron for Melbourne. - PREFERENCE .IN BRITISH GUIANA, London, December 31. A message from Georgetown, 'British!.;; Guiana, states that the Legislature has'* approved of preferential treatment to im-./ ports from' Canada and Great Britain, but not to those'from British possessions; . DR. COOK GRATEFUL. New York, December 31. •! Dr. Cook, the Arctic explorer, has sent a message to . a New York Danish paper thanking the Danish people for their, hospitality to him when' he returned' , from the Tolar regions in 1909. SAFE ROBBERIES IN KANSAS. New York, January.l./ : A gang of robbers secured 8000 dollars by blowing, up safes in Waterville, Kansas. They succeeded in escaping.