GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph—Press Association Copyrieht)

KETCH FOUNDERS AT SEA (Rec. April 8, 1.52 a.m.)

• • • ; Sydney,-April 7. The ketch Lansdowne, timber-laden from the Nanibucca River, foundered oft-Norah Head. The crew of five were picked up and brought to Sydney.

PANAMA BONDS,

New York, April 7. : The Government, issuo of Panama Binds has been provisionally fixed for Juno 1.

LATE MR. MOBERLY BELL

Londpn, April 6. ' The High Commissioner for Australia/ Sir George Reid, in a letter to "The Times," pays a.tribute to the services to the country, of the late. Mr. MoberLy Bell, managing director of "The Times." .■i.- i r- 1 ■

PfUSH London, April 6?" • The Judicial' Committee of tfie House of Lords has confirmed the decision of the Appeal Court in the apP April last, by the Swansea School Board, respecting the salaries of Church and Board school teachers.

MR, HENNIKER, HEATON ILL.

... :T' ; : l.ontlon, April 7. Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, the advocate of low postage and cable rates within ■ tho-Empire, is seriously ill.'Sir Lauder Brunton, who is attending the ? a s6, has issued a bulletin statins that it will be some days before Mr. Heaton is out of danger.

■ MR. ASQUITH UNWELL. ' '

London, April 7. The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquitk, is suffering from a cold, and was unable to attend the, farewell dinner to Sir Tohn Fuller, the ex-Liberal M.P., who has been appointed' Governor of Victoria.

JAPANESE TRADE DEPRESSION.

. SSydney, April 7. The captain of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Yawata Maru, which has just arrived _ from Japan, reports a serious depression in trade hi Japan for which he is'unable to account. '

FALL' IN FERRY'.SHARES.

Sydney, April 7. In consequence of the proposed Stateowned harbour ferry services, the Sydney Ferries shares dropped os. 6d. today. [The capital of the Sydney Ferries, Ltd., is £200,000 in. 200,000 fully-paid £1 shares.], - .

GERMAN CREW SAVED.

Colombo, April' 7.' The- crew of ■ the German cargo steamer Bergedorf, which went ashoro at Cape Comorjn, on the Indian coast a few days ago, has'been saved.

' PEER'S MISSING HEIR. .'

London, April 6. ■. It was . recently alleged that the-body of an unknown suicide buried at: Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, .was'really that of-Francife Patrick Clenlents, -brother yid-heir to Earl Leitrim, a young,mail of 26, who has been .missing since 1907. An investigation-has proved'that the jody is not that of Mr. Clements.

PUBLISHER'S SUICIDE.

Nsw York, April 6. Mr. Craige Lippincott, 'president of |n&. well-known American publishing iouse of J. B. Lippincott ancf Co., has committed suicide' at Philadelphia by shooting himself. ;• . [Mr. Lippincott was 65 years old, and was president of>tho company from 18S5 onwards, succeeding his father in tho control.]

DARING TRAIN ROBBER.

New York, April 6. . An armed man held up a AVcst-bound n-ain near Muncie, Indiana, robbed tho passengers, and escaped amid a fusillade. .

A NEW DIAMOND FIELD.

Ottawa, April 6. Scores of.prospectors aro staking daims, in tho Olivine Mountain, which was'recently discovered to be diamondiferous. ;

ARGENTINE LAND BOOM.

; . Buenos Ayros, April 6. A-sensation has been caused through she newspaper "La Argentina" declaring that a majdrity of the'recent land 6a163 near Buelios Ayres were bogus.

Sydney, April 7. The' Howard Smith Company, which owns-.a,fleet of 22 steamers engaged in trade, intends to let a coTttipct t'o fit their steamers with wireless /telegraphy apparatus. /Thtf!: Anglican Bishops of Australia ire sMding a congratulatory Coronation address to the King.