GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Tcletrapli—Frees Association Copyriclit) * THE CORONATION DURBAR. (Rec. March 23, 10.30 p.m.) London, March 23. A proclamation has been issued fixinj December 12 as the date of tlio Coronation Durbar at Delhi. JAVANESE FOR NEW CALEDONIA. Sydney, March 23. A party of 110 Javanese, including li women, have arrived en route to Ne\i Caledonia, to work in the nickel mines, > BIG BEQUESTS TO CHARITIES. Sydney, March 23. Mrs. Noale, who recently died at I'otti Point, bequeathed .£86,500 to Sydney ho?-* pitals and benevolent 'institutions, \C4OOO to a Methodist body, and Jt'looo to tlw> Bush Missionary Society. MR.' HALDANE. London, March 23. There are persistent rumours that Mr. Haldane, Secretary of State far "War, is to go to the House of Lords. A MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION. Sydney, March 23. The explosion of the contents of a basket, wrecked some refreshment rooms at Nyngan, on the Bourke railway, and injured a woman and a boy. The basket had bien lying in the rooms for som<? time. It is not known what it con* tained. NEW GERMAN BATTLESHIP. . Berlin, March 22. The Empress has launched life battle ship Kaiser at Kiel. A LONDON MODE. London, March 22. In a thousand London shops during the All-British Shopping Week, it is intended to endeavour to create a. London mode instead of a l'aris one. LORD ONSLOW. London, March 22. Lord Onslow has resigned the Deputy Speakership of the House of Lords on the ground of ill-health. BIG FIRE IN BUENOS AYRES. Buenos Ayres, March 22. One of tlio customhouses, filled witH merchandise, has been burned dowu. Tha damage is put at .£250,000. MINING DISASTER. New York, March 22. News comes from Pittsburg that nino men were killed in the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Company's mine at East Canuonsburg, through loose slate falling. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. Melbourne, March 23. The Royal Assent has been granted to tho Northern Territory Acceptanoo'Bill, transferring the territory from South Australia to the Commonwealth. FIJI-MELBOURNE SERVICE. Melbourne, March 23. Owing to the heavy banana crop in Fiji, arrangements have been made for tho steamer Manapouri to resume tho direct service from Fiji to Melbourne on May 2. . BLIGHTED POTATO CROPS. Sydney, March 23. . The whole of the potato crops from Sydney to the Victorian border are suffering from blight. , THE CLONCURRY SENSATION. Brisbane, March 23. Tho two alleged highwaymen at Mount Herbert, near Cloncurr,v, were arrested at Donaldson, while sleeping.