GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1069, 7 March 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By U'cU'nrajU-l'ress Association-CODyrlnM.. — » ABORIGINE SENTENCED TO DEATH. Perth, March G. An aborigine) has been sentenced to death for murdering three natives near I'oakhdl in September last. NEW PEER'S APPOINTMENT. London, March 5. Sir Edward Tennant, upon whom a peerage has just been conferred, has been appointed Lord High Commissioner fov the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in succession to the Earl of Stair. JEWISH BANKER'S WILL. ' London, March 5. The estate of the late Lord Swaythling, formerly well-known as Sir Samuel Montague, head of tho banking house of that name, has been sworn at .£1,150,001). His children and grandchildren are to he disinherited, except for a hundred pounds a year each, if they do not profess tho Jewish faith or if they marry persons who are not of tho Jewish religion. WEST AUSTRALIAN LOAN. London, March 5. The West Australian loan of JJIGS.OOO at 31 per cent., issued at has been fully subscribed. - A SEVERE FAMINE. Shanghai, March 5. The famine in'tho Anhui and lviang-su districts is becoming more serious than that of 1006. There has been a largo exodus of population southwards. COAL VEND PROSECUTION. Melbourne, March G. Mr. Deakin, ex-Federal Prime Minister, states that his Government had been prepared to issue writs against the Coal Vend, but tho election interrupted the design. MR, PETER BOWLING. Sydney, March G. Mr. Peter Bowling delivered «i violent attack on the Labour party. He declared, he was tired of the Labour Ministry.

A LIGHT SENTENCE ABSENTED. Perth, March G. Owing to public indignation over the light sentence of twelve months inflicted on the Japanese Peto fnr the manslaughter of the French woman Margaret tie Faur, it has been derided that he shall be deported on his release from gaol.