GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 18 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright 1 •LARGE INSURANCES OF JEWELS. (Rec. May 18, 0.5 a.m. London, May 17. Largo insurances of jewels are. being completed in connection with the Coro\tiou. One policy covers a. quarter of ' million sterling;.

-'■• ALLEGED FRUIT TRADE RING. m , . Sydney, May IS. The fruit merchants emphatically deny the existenco of a rinsr. and state that Mr. Griffith, Minister for Public Works, is not in a position to know whether there is a ring or not.

THE PEACE TREATY. Sydney, May 17. The Presbyterian Assembly has forwarded a message to tho Imperial Govern, ment rejoicing at the suggested AngloAmerican Arbitration Treaty.

POPULATION OF PAPUA. Melbourne, May 17, The native population of Pnpua is 270,745, the , whites number just under n thousand. :

LATE MR, W. MURDOCH. London, May IG. i The remains of the late Mr. Walter Murdoch, the ex-Australian cricketer, who died at Melbourne on February 18 last, will be buried at Kensal Green cemetery on Thursday.

FEDERAL.MINISTER ILL. Melbourne, May 17. Mr. King O'Mallcy, Federal Minister for Home Affairs, is suffering from nervous breakdown.

BITTER. PIT IN APPLES. Melbourne, May 17. Tho Minister for Agriculture has asked for mi immediate test of tho new theory regarding bitter pit in apples.

MEAT TRADE EXPANSION. Sydnoy, May 17. Mr. Kidman, the "cattle king," has returned here after a world's tour. He considers there is no immediate, prospect of tho American and European markets being opened to Australian meat.

FOGS ON THE AUSTRALIAN COAST. Sydney, May 17. Exceptionally heavy fogs are enveloping the. coast and seriously hamperiug shipping.

UNION SECRETARY MISSING. Sydney, May 17. Mr. Scotland, secretary of the Sydney Seamen's Union, has been missing for nearly a fortnight,