GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

(By TelecrapU-Press Association CopyricuU 4 , PENNY POSTAGE. (Kec. April 17, 0.25 a.m.) m, t, . . Melbourne, April Iβ. ihe iedcral Executive has approved of a proclamation bringing penny postage into operation throughout Australia, alro under special arrangements with Britain and tho Dominions from May 1.

PRESENTATION TO SIR E. GREY. London, April 15. His constituents at Berwick (Northura. berland) are presenting Sir Edward Grey, becretary of State for Foreign Affair's, with his portrait in oils.

THE HOLIDAY IN LONDON. London, April 15. There is brilliant weather for the holidays, ihere has been o record exoduj or .Londoners,

THE ASSAM MURDERS. (Rec. April 17, 0.35 a.m.) 'Ti f i * « Calcutta i April 16. ilio late of Dr. Gregorson, a niembc* of the party attacked by Abars, is uncertain. Two hundred Gurkhas and a company of Mahrattns arc being dispatch' ed to the Abar country.

TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS. The Senate adopted a Bill providing lor the commencement of the building o? two battleships during IDH.

THREE PERSONS ELECTROCUTED.. _ Berlin, April U. '. Ihree persons were fatally electrocuted through clutching a high-tension wirf wnich had been snapped off by a storm.

EARL SPENCER, r, , „ London, April H. barl Spencer, who recently underwent, a serious operation, is progressing favourably.

BOWLS. (Rec. April 17, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, April IG. The Taranaki bowling team, in a two. rmk practice match against Wavorley, wore defeated by two points, Wavcrloy scoring forty-eight and Taranaki forty, six.

RAILWAY IN NIGERIA. Lagos, April 14. A railway 400 miles long, connecting , Baro, on the Niger, with Kano, in l.he heart of Northern Nigeria, has been opened.

AX OLD RAILWAY RE-OPENED. London, April 11. The old potteries railway between 1 Shrewsbury and Llanminach, which cost (wo millions, and has been in disuso for, thirty years, was recently purchased for .C 32.000, and has been re-opened.

KING EDWAED MEMORIAL. London, April 14. The Mansion House Fund for the King Edward- memorial now stands at JJ55,400—-■

MR, LLOYD-GEORGE. London, April 14. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who lias Been suffering from a throat aflVi'tiou, attended, at Carnarvon, a rchcni"»il of tho choir which is to sinji nt the invc-stituro of the Princo of Wales. The Chancellor spoke, this being the first speech he has delivered" for three months.

CATTLE DISEASE. London, April 14. To-morrow tho Board of Agricultur* will withdraw the restrictions on the movements of animals in connection with the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at Chobhara, Surrey.

t AN AUSTRALIAN SINGER. London, April 14. Miss Mary Conly, the Victorian 6inger ( scored a success in the oratorio, "The Messiah," produced by tho Royal Chora) Society at tho Albert Hall.

THE YONGALA. Brisbane, April 15. The search for tho missing steauiel) Yongala has been abandoned.

VICTORIA'S NEW GOVERNOR. London, April 14. Sir John Puller, the new Governor of Victoria, with his familv and Euite, have left for Melbourne. There was a large gathering of relations and friends at St. Pancras station to bid them farewell. Among those present was Sir J. W. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria.

NO SHORTAGE OF LABOUR. Melbourne, April 15. There is evidently no shortage of labour here. Four hundred and fifty-one vacau-; cies in the Defence Department factories attracted 3SSS applicants.

BOY SCOUTS AND RUSSIAN POLICE.. Hclsingfors, April 15. Tho boy scout movement, which has made rapid headway in Finland, has been checked by the Russian authorities ordering the police to search the headquarters of the scouts.

CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER, Ottawa, April 12. Tiro Hon. Clifford Sifton may bo appointed Canadian High Commissioner in Londou, in succession to Lord StratUcona. Ottawa, April 13. Tho report that Mr. Sifton will !«■. tho liciv Hi'ih Commissioner is denied. I'Mr. Sifton was at one limo a member of the Laurier Ministry, but recently «>. ceded owing to a difference of opinion oil the question of reciprocity with the United Slates.!