GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1090, 31 March 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Tclccraph—Press Association Copyrieht)

STORM IN'QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, March 30. A cyclonic storm is raging at Cooktown, in Northern Queensland, accompanied by heavy rain and high seas. Shipping .is. held up, and the rivers arc rising in ttood. POLITICAL SLANDER CASK. ' Sydney, March 30. A man named Lloyd has teen awarded £Ua damages against Albert Gardiner, a Federal Senator, in regard to charges of assault and slander. The caso arose out of the. last State elections. .. THE CLAPHAM MURDER. London, March 29. After a three days' hearing, the appeal by Stinio. Morrison against his conviction for the murder of Leon Beron, a French Jew, at Clapham Common, early on New Year's Day, was dismissed. NEW TRANS-ATLANTIC PORT. London, March 29. A committee has been appointed at Dublin to place before the Overseas Premiers the claims of Gahvay as a port of call for Trans-Atlantic services. LORD CURZON HONOURED. London, March 29. The Council of the Royal Geographical Society has nominated Lord Curzon as president. • SIR CHARLES. DILKE'S ESTATE. London, March 29.' The estate' of the -lato Sir Charles Dilke, M.r., has been sworn at ,£130,578. HOW DISASTERS OCCUR. St. Petersburg, March 29. Out of GOO buildings used for kinematograph shows only four fulfil the safetyregulation. Although many of the buildings have been condemned, yet they continue .to'b'e 'used.'? JOiiNSON'.S:'"R.EST. CURE." San Francisco, March 20. Jack Johnson's first appeal against the sentenco of twenty-five days' imprisonment for excee'dins the motor speed limit failed. He is still a prisoner. [Johnson went to California for a rest after eight months on the vaudeville stage.] ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Sydney, March ,30. The remainder of the Australian solar eclipso party have sailed for VavaU".