GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1094, 5 April 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph—Press Association Copyrisht)

IMMIGRANTS FOB NEW SOUTH WALES. London, April 3. During the quarter just ended, emigrants to Now South Wales numbered 750 assisted farm hands and domestics, and 1350 nominated emigrants, as compared with a total of 913 for the corresponding period of 1910. BLIZZARD IN AMERICA. Chicago, April 3. A blizzard is raging in the Middle West. Five inches of snow has fallen. PROTECTION OP ABORIGINES. Melbourno, April i. The Federal Government has appointed Dr. Basedow Chief Protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. CHILD'S TRAGIC DEATH. Brisbane, April 3. A child at Townsville opened a trunk, and the lid fell on its neck and suffocated it, GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE. Sydney, April 4; Grasshoppers have devastated the crops in the Gundagai district. THE CORONATION. London, Ajjril i. The newspapers state that King Edward's Horse will partly represent Australia and New Zealand at the Coronation. MR, W. B. YEATS. London, April i. Mr. Asquith has conferred a civil pension of .£l5O per annum on Mr. W. B. Ycates, the Irish poet. [Mr. Yeats was born in ISGS, and is thus -16 years of age. His collected poems were published in eight volumes in 100S.J MISSING NATURALISTS. New York, April i. Anxiety is felt for the two chief members—Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson— of an expedition which left hero on a three years' exploration tour of the north, under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, 00-opcrnUu" with the Canadian Government. Mr. Stefansson has not been heard from for a year.