GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1076, 15 March 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By lWirajh-Prena Association-ConyrlhM. ' * — CANADIAN TARIFF AGREEMENTS. (Rcc. March 15, 0.10 a.m.) Th t> ■ „9 ttawa ' March 14. The Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid", Laurier, intends to demand, at tlio Im- ' penal Conference, the abrogation of the favoured nation tariff agreements '■ altectmg Canada.

FEDERAL BRICK WORKS,

ir «„, „ Me,bo »"lo. March 14. Mr. OMalley, Minister for Homo Aftairs, intends to establish brick Works within the Federal Territory, to manufacture bricks for the- Federal capital buildings. .

N.S.W. SOLICITOR-GENERAL,

■vr w „ „ Sydney, March 14. .Air. Walter Bevan, a- Sydney .barrisn' , J'° cn ' a l'Pointed SolicitorGeneral. The offico has been revived in order to relieve Mr. Holman, the Stato Attorney-General, who is Actiui'Proniior during Mr. M'Gowen's absence at the Coronation.

FRENCH BARQUE ASHORE,

Adelaide, March 10. The French barque Villo do Dijon, 1946 tons gross, grain-laden from Semaphore South Australia, to the United Kingdom, is ashore on ■ the Marion Reef. Apparently there is no danger. Later. An attempt to float off the Villa da Dijon has been unsuccessful, and the vessel will have to bo lightered.

IMPRISONED FOR SACRILEGE,

London, March 13. At tho Staffordshire Assizes, Marlow, a workman, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for sacrilege at a Roman Catholic church.

MARQUIS OF LINLITHGOW.

London, March 13. • The marriage of the Marquis of Linlithgow (son of tho first GovernorGeneral of Australia) and a daughter l of Sir Frederick Milner, Baronet, will; tako place on April 10 : nest. The couple will go on ft honeymoon trip to Australia, arriving there in the rniddlo of June.

SEAT FOR MR. BONAR LAW,

London, March 13. Colonel T. M. Sandys, Conservative member for Bootle, S.W. Lancashire, has resigned in favour of Mr. A. Bonar Law, late Unionist member for Dulwich Division of Camherwell.

KILLED IN A SNOWSLIDE.

Now York, March 13. At Denver four persons were killed through a snowslide at the Cold King mine.

SASKATCHEWAN POLITICS,

Rcgina,, March 13. The deadlock in tho . Saskatchewan Parliament continues..

SUNDAY DUTY REFUSED

Melbourne, March 14. A number of telephone attendants, defying the Department, refused Sunday duty. They have been suspended.

A HOMICIDAL CHINESE,

Sydnoy, March 14. A Chinaman ran amok on tho steamer Strathan, en route for Newcastle. After having slightly wounded the captain and several others, the man s jumped overboard and was drowned.