GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph-Press Association Copyriehtl 6 ' GOVERNORSHIP OP QUEBEC, (Rcc. May i, 0.10 a.m.) Ottawa, May 3. Sir Francois Langeliei-, Acting-Chief Justice of tiio Superior Court of Quebec, has been appointed Governor of Quebec, iu succession to tho lαto Sir Henry Pellctier. [Sir Francois Xavier Langelicr was born in 1838., and was educated nt Laval University, Canada , . Ho afterwards joined the professorial staff of the- university, and in 1873 was elected a member of the Quebec' Legislative Assembly, becoming Minister of Lands five years later. Irom 18S1 to 1898 , ho was a member of the Canadian House of Commons.] WRECK OF THE BERGEDORF. London, May 3. A salvage, contract lias been arranged iu connection with the wreck of the steamer Bergedorf at Cape Comorin, India. Operations will begin in a few days. .

NOT DESTITUTE. Sydney, May 3. A search of the room occupied by an elderly single woman who died in tho hospital and was supposed to be destitute, revealed a sum of £iW. BREAKING THEIR OWN BY-LAW. Sydney, May 3. Four politicians have been fined for speaking in the street. Two of the defendants had helped to frame the council by-law under which they were charged. THE WERTHEIMER ESTATE. London, May 3. ■ Further bequests made by tho late Mr. Charles Wertheimer. the art collector, include the London Hospital ,€IOO,OOO, nnd the Gordon Boys' Home and the Evelina Hospital J350,000 each. TRAINING SHIP ASHORE. London, May 2. The training schooner Steadfast, with forty boys and four officers aboard, is ashore at Thames Haveu. She is broadside on, ami in a dangerous position. SIR JOSEPH WARD. London, May 2. Cambridge and Birmingham Universities' will each confer an honorary Doctorship of Laws on Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Miuister of New Zealand. London, May 3. Sir Josejlh Ward will preside at a dinner to Mt. Harold Tonnant, M.P. for Berwickshire, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, to be given at the National Liberal Club on May 18. QUIET IN BALUCHISTAN. " Calcutta, Mar 2. Quiet has been restored at Khnran (seventy-eight miles west-south-west of Kerat), where mutinous troops killed a chief, who had been giving trouble to tho British in Baluchistan. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Vancouver, May 2. At Montreal, a father and mother went out, locking their children in the house. When they returned thny found the house in ashes, the children having been incinerated. BUENOS AYRES HARBOUR. Buenos Ayres, May 2. In connection with tho contract let by the Argentine Government to Walker and Co. for the construction of a new harbour, for .£5,500,000, the Government will pay the contractors in 5 per cent, bonds, retirable on the sale of certain land. THE SHEFFIELD CHOIR. Vancouver, May 2. The Sheffield Choir is on route for Australia. It had a successful tour in America. A FROST IN KANSAS. New York, May 2. From Kansas City comes news that frosts have done damage to fruit. POPULATION OF MELBOURNE. Melbourne, May 3. The census returns show the population of the city and suburbs to be 572,58!), compared with 190,079 at tho 19(3l census. SYDNEY UNDERGRADUATES. Sydney, May 3. In spite of the University Senate's nkase against it, the undergraduates intend to hold the annual commemoration celebrations. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. Sydney, May 3. The State Parliament will meet on May 16. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLD FINDS. Perth, May 3. Rich discoveries, of gold are reported from the Southern Cross district. WRECK OF THE ASIA. Peking, May 3. Arundel, the missing sailor from the steamer Asia, wrecked recently on the Chinese const, has been found. FORTUNE LEFT TO "CHARITIES. Athens, May 3. M. Corgi Alegno, an Anglo-Greek banker, has left .£121,000 to Greek charities. _^______