GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1129, 17 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tclcirraiib—Press Association-Copyright .— e OIL FUEL LOCOMOTIVES. (Rec. May 17, 1 a.m.) Ottawa, May IG. Tho Canadian Pacific Railway Company has decided to. use oil fuel engines in ' tho Rocky Mountains, with a view to preventing tho outbreak of disastrous forest fires, which havo been attributed to sparks from tho present coal-burning locomotives. AN EXPULSION ANNULLED. Rotterdam, May 15,, Tho order for tho expulsion of Mr. Tinsley, representative of the. Uranium Company, mado in March last, has bcoa annulled. Tho expulsion was on the ground that, although having orders to the contrary, Mr. Tinsley had landed near Rotterdam a Russian who had bcoa refused admission to Germany, WEATHER. FORECASTING BY WIRELESS MESSAGES. Melbourne, May IG. Tho Commonwealth Meteorologist, Mr. Hunt, states that tho barometric readings sent by wireless telegraphy from tho warships nro of very groat value. Ho thinks tho merchant vessels might easily assist in the samo way. ' SIR JOSEPH WARD. London, May IG. Oxford University is conferring a, doctorship on Sir Joseph Ward. MURDER OP A GAMEKEEPER. London, May 15. Vv right ant! Wood, Iwo miners, havo been commillcd for Irial a| Wakefield on a charge of murdering llarrv Jovce, a gamekeeper in tho omploy of Sir Thomas Pilkington, who was found dead on May 5 on Sir Thomas's Wakefield estate (Cheviot Park) with a gunshot wound in his/ body and his forehead badly cut. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL CASE. London., May 15. The Privy Council dismissed, with costs, tho appeal case the. Commissioner of Stamp Duties for New South Wales versus tho Broken Hill South Exleniied Company. A HUNGARIAN MURDER. Budapest, May 15. A landowner's two tons havo been nr'. rested on a charge, of assassinating M, Action, n Hungarian deputy. KILLED BY A FALLING WALL. New York, May 15. . Through the collnpso of a fnko brickfront in the principal street of Montgomory, Alabama, live men were seriously injured. CONGESTED LAW COURTS. Sydney, May IG. At tho annual meeting of (ho Bar ol Now South Wales, a. resolution was carried drawing attention to tho growing congestion of business in the Supremo Court, and urging tho pressing need for relief. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. Sydney, May IG. According to (he president of tho Staff Children's Relief Board—for dealing with juvenile delinquency—humane methods' have been made possible by tho passing of the Neglected Children's and Juvenile. Offenders Acts, and (he good work being done by the board is increasing. SMALLTOX AT ADELAIDE. Adelaide, May IG. The steamer Narrnng's smallpox patient is convalescent. There aro indications that he contracted the disease in London,