GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association Copyright

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 16 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association Copyright

. $ ■ -POOR LAW COMMISSION. (Rec. January 15, 5.5 p.m.) - • London, .January 14. Tlie Poor Law Commission lias issued a report of five hundred pages dealing with foreign and colonial systems, including an interesting resume of Australian poor relief, and the work of the New South Wales Labour Department. NEW CANADIAN GOLDFIELD, " (R«c. January 16, 1.15 a.m.) Ottawa, January 15. English and "Canadian cani'tal is flowing in for the purchase of claims on the new goldfields at Porcupine Late, on the borders of Hudson Bay. Many free, gold veins have been discovered. The field is only thirty miles from the railway. CHARGE AGAINST ACCOUNT. (Rec.*January 18, 0.50 a.m.) .- ■ ; Paris, January 15. Count Daulby, charged with selling spurious pictures, has been sentenced to a month's . imprisonment "for swindling.. His wife was acquitted. CHARGE OF MURDER, ■ Melbourne, January 14. Percy Lynch has been committed for trial on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Archibald Steans, who was found dead in the Edinburgh , Gardens, North Fitzroy, on .'New Year's Day. NEW COMMONWEALTH STAMP.Melbourne, January 14. The Federal Government is offering.' prizes of for designs for tho new Commonwealth stamp. ' . EARTHQUAKES. London, January 14. Renter's St. Petersburg correspondent roports a renewal of the carthquakesju Russian Turkestan , , . FINNISH ELECTIONS. St.' Petersburg, January 13. , The Finnish elections resulted, in tho position of parties remaining . unaltered. Nineteen women were elected. ■ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. .'. Sydney, January 15.--The Grand Council of the Science Congress has voted =£1000 to Mawson's Antarctic Expedition.' , OBITUARY. London, January 15. Tho death of Lord Swaythling is announced. • £ Lord. Swaythling was born in 1882. He lblished and was head of the banking firm of Samuel, Montague and Co., Lonjion.l ; ' BANK MANAGER PLEADS GUILTY. 'Ottawa, January 13. Travers, general-manager of the Toronto Farmers' Bank, which failed; recently, has pleaded guilty to three charges of theft and making false returns. garrotting: •• : Melbourne', -.'January 14. A case of garrotting occurred in a public lavatory at Brunswick. A man was robbed of i£l4i The garrotters escaped. The crime was committed at midday. MARRIAGE OF AN EARL. . ' Rome, January 13. Earl Cadogan lias been married to tho Countess Adele '• Palagi, a granddaughter of the late Sir George Cadogan. . [Earl Cadogan .was born in. 1840. He is a' grandnepliew of tho first Duke of Wellington. His first wife, who was Lady Beatrix Craven, died in 1907. From 1895 to 1902 he was Lord Lieutenant in Ireland.] . FAMOUS PICTURE SLASHED WITH A KNIFE. , Amsterdam, January 13.. Sigrist, a discharged naval cook, slashed with a knife Rembrandt's, .picture, "The Night Watch," in the State Museum. He has been arrested. DAMAGES FOR LIBEL'. London, January 13. Mr. Harold Belcher, theatrical agent, was awarded .£2OO damages against "Lloyd's Weekly News" for libel in using his name for that of a character in a serial story, entitled "Motley and Tinsel." , FALSE MARKING OF GOODS. London, January 13. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey, in a letter to ths''Associated Chambers of Commerce, states that the Government will' bring the question of the false marking of goods before a conference on the protection of industrial property, to be held at Washington. BLOWN TO ATOMS. Vienna, January 13. Three women at Myslovies, finding that a man had deceived them, lured liini to a' rendezvous, and blew liini to' atoms with a dynamite bomb.

Sydney, January 13. Two outbreaks of contagious pneumonia in pips have occurred in tho Hunter River district. Melbourne, January 15. During tho ton. years the Federal Government Civil Service has increased by 41 per cent., and now numbers 15,793. -Tho present Government is largely increasing tho expenditure on salaries.