GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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MINING DISPUTE. (Rw. April 27, 10.15 p.m.) • London, April 27. A conference of the Miners' Federation of Britain, has decided to ask the Cambrian Combine to agree to arbitration regarding the Ely Pit dispute.

THE QUEENSLAND LOAN.

. (Rec. April 27, 10.15 p.m.) London, April 27. It is officially announced that 91 per cent, of the Queensland loan remains in the underwriters' hands.

THE WRECKED STEAMER ASIA.

London, April 27. It is stated in London that the hull of the steamer Asia, which struck on a rock 200 miles south of Shanghai, and sank, is insured for .£30,001). The losses in cotton and silk represent several thousand pounds.

EXONERATED.

Paris, April 27. The magistrate has released Credanne, considering that he is exonerated from complicity in connection with alleged financial and administrativo irregularities in the cash accountancy department of the French Foreign Office, into which a searching inquiry was recently held.

FOR ENGLAND.

Cape Town, April 27. Sir Leander Jameson and the Hon. T. W. Smartt have sailed for England.

RESTRICTIONS WITHDRAWN.

Gape Town, April 27. The restrictions against the importation of English cattle have been withdrawn.

BY-ELECTION.

(Rec. April 28, 0.30 a.m..) Brisbane, April 27. The by-election for Dalby, to fill tho vacancy caused by the death of the Speaker (the Hon. J. T. Bell) resulted in the return of Sir. Vowles (Ministerialist).

THE LIQUOR LAW.

Sydney, April 27. The Licensed Victuallers' Conference carried a motion favouring the abolition of local option, and the substitution of licenses reduction boards. COMMUTED. Sydney, April 27. The . deatli . sentence passed on Sonkovitcli, a Russian youth, for the murder at Bourke of another Russian, has been commuted to one of imprisonment for life. COLONIAL ARTISTS. London, April 26. Lobley (a Queenslander) is showing 'ono picture, and Birley (a New Zealander) three pictures at the Royal Academy. E. Hope, D. Davies, and Rae (Victorians) are exhibiting at tie New Salon, and Ashton. Marie Tuck (South Australians), Hilda Rix, and Miss Phillips (Victorians) at the Old Salon. RELEASED PROM QUARANTINE. Sydney, April 27. The P. and 0. steamer Mooltan has been released from quarantine. Two pasSfingers who refused to submit to vaccination will have to remain in quarantine. CIVIL SERVICE. Sydney, April 27. The State Government has decided to pay a minimum of XllO to all adult members of tha Civil Service. • Unlike the conditions in the Federal Service, there is to be no three years' stipulation. FOR THE KING'S COLLECTION. Cape Town, April 26. The steamer Conway Cnstle will convey to London 231 mammils, birds, and

reptiles for the King's collection. Tho consignment is described as. the finest ever shipped. OPERA COMPANY'S TOUR. London, April 26. Mademoiselle Jeannie Joglli, the Dutch soprano, has been engaged for Quintan's Opera Company's tour of Australia. The season opens in Melbourne in May, 1912, in the opera "Tales of Hoffman." • INTERESTING LAW CASE. London, April 26. The Law Guarantee Trust's valuer, Francis Joseph Ronald, is suing the newspaper "John Bull" for alleging his incompetence, and that he bad been responsible for the Trust's losses; also that ho had been appointed because he was the general manager's ton. The trinl is exciting attention. PRISONER AND WARDERS. London, April 26. While being removed to Dartmoor, Stinie Morrison, sentenced to death for the murder of Leon Boron, a French .lew, the sentence being afterwards commuted, struggled with the warders at Waterloo Station. He was eventually mastered. FLOODS AT BUENOS AYRES. Buenos /lyres, April 26. Torrential rnin has flooded Southern Buenos Ayres. There are 500 families sheltering "in churches and schools. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. New York, April 26. At Indianapolis Detective Burns surrenders on a charge of kidnapping Labour men in connection with tho Los Angeles case. . .