GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1022, 11 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tek'grajh—Press Assoeiation-OopyrlnM. ■ • —. . C •. . 'THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. (Ree, January 11, 0.30 a.m.) Cape Town, January 10. The Prime Minister' (General Botha), and Mr. Sauer (Minister for Railways) will attend 'the, Imperial. Conference. TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND ON S'J'PIKH. Brussels, January 10. Twenty-two thousand miners have struck at Liege, the Belgian coal-mining centre. AN ARMY CONFERENCE. • London, January 10. General Sir W. G. Nicholson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is presiding at a conference of seventy General Staff officers at Camberley. The proceedings are confidential'.' HEAVY GALE ON PACIFIC COAST. (Rec. January 11, 1.14 a.m.,) New York, January' 12. A gale is raging on the Pacific Coast, and some cities have been cut off from' telegraphic and railway communication. Damage to shipping is reported. LORD CAWDOR, London, January 9.. Earl ■ Caivdor, who 'was First'. Lord ' of the Admiralty in the ilast Unionist Government, ana whoso condition was recently reported to be serious, is improving in. health. DEMONSTRATION AT JIETZ. Berlin, January 9. A proposed athletic club concert at, Metz, in Alsace-Lorraine, was forbidden. This led to a. pro-French demonstration around Marshal Ney's statue. A. guard was summoned, and several persons injured. t . ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE AT TASHKENT. St. Petersburg, January 9. A.\ fresh and severe earthquake was experienced at Tashkent, the capital of Russian Turkestan.. PORTUGUESE CENSORSHIP. Lisbon; 'January 9. , The Cabinet lias abolished the censorship on foreign press telegrams. ARGENTINE HARVEST. Buenos Ayres, January 9. The wheat and linseed threshing returns aro satisfactory. The dry weather is favouring the farms, but is seriously harming the maize-crops in the north. REMARKABLE 'WHEAT CROP. Sydney, January 10. ■ There lias been a remarkable yield of wlie.it at landrn, where share fanning is carried out. The variety known as Dart's Imperial yielded up to forty-two. bushels to-the acre.