GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 21 March 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) . . TOWN CLERK ARRESTEI). Perth, March 20. Mr. M'Millan, lately Town Clerk of Fremantle," has been arrested on a charge of stealing "nine debentures valued at £4500, the property of the municipality. WARATAH THEORY DISCREDITED. Cape Town, March 20. The.Court of Inquiry into the beaching of the British India Company's steamer ■Palitana on the coast near East London at tho beginning of the month does not credit the theory that the submerged object struck, by tho,.Palitana was the remains of the Waratah.-----. [Tho Palitana-struck on some unknown obstacle; and was so badly-damaged that her captain ran her. ashore.] , DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK. London, March 19. There is an outbreak of; diphtheria at Oimdle, a'small town an.., Northamptonshire. The disease was introduced into houses by cats which had-eaten infected pigeons landing: from-France.-n ' ; MONTMARTRE RAIDED. ■ • v'. -'..'l'Parisl'.'-March 19. A police raid on the Montmartre quarter resulted in 165 men and women undesirables being arrested. They'are mostly Germans. . Forty-five of them were carrying revolvers. ' INNOCENT' MAN. SERVES. TWENTY YEARS. Now York, March 19. Andrew Toth, sentenced at Pittsburg to life imnrisonment on a charge of murder, has' been liberatcd-. «fter serving 20 years. He has been proved-innocent of the charge. THIEVES'TO BE'FLWGGED. Now- York,--March 19. A-law is being enforced in Wilmington, Delaware, under which petty thieves aro to be punished .with the .lash and embezzlers imprisoned.- ' ." .. ..PLAGL'E IJ^BRAZIL. Jan&tfoy'March 19. The authorities are ' alarmed by the plaguo' enidemic. Twenty cases have been reported" at Porto'Alegre, tho seaport at the mouth of the Rio'Grande -do SIII. DARWIN. • "Melbourne, -March 20. The Federal Government lhas . decided to alter the name.of tho;town of ralmerston, capital of: tho -Northern Territory, to Darwin. ••• [Palmerston .is. situated on the eastern side, of Port Darwin.] 4 A GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE. ■ - Sydney, March 20. Gundagai is besieged by a plague of grasshoppers. They are so thick in places that pconlo are unable to drive their vehicles along. Everything green has been eaten. , SIR WILLIAM LYNE. ' Brisbane, March 20. Sir William Lync has returned from a visit to 'America. He strongly supports tho referenda proposals.