GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1139, 29 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph-Press Asßoclation-CopjriKht KING'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS. (Rcc. May 28, s.'s p.m.) rm ~. , May.,.27,1, The kieg's Birthday* was officially 6elcbrated to-day when iv Royal procession, including representatives of ' foreign armies and navies, witnessed the trooping of the colours. ELECTRIC LAMPS~FOR MINERS. m , .„. London, May 27. J. no colliery owners have placed at the disposal of tho Homo Secretary, Mr. Winston Churchill, a sum of .£IOOO as a prize for an electric lamp to be used in mines.' . r DISASTROUS FIKE AT CONEY ISLAND. New York, Mav 28. A fire at the Dreamland Building at t A y Is ' an "> tlle popular pleasure resort ot the citv, destroyed three million dollars ■ worth of property. MR, M'GOWEN TAKES OFF HIS , r ,„„ „ London, May 26. Mr. M'Gowen, Premier of New South Rales, while passing along Kingsway, noticed riveters working at a huge girder. Ho asked permission to help them, and dexterously completed the job before revealing his identity. A BUNYAN RELIC. „,,,.. „ London, May 2C. The Attorney-General (Sir Rufus Isaacs) has intervened with the object of preventiiyj tho sale of John Bmiyan's copy of "lox's Book of Martyrs," which tho Bedford Literary Institute was desirous ot disposing of by auction. MAORI VILLAGE ENTERTAINERS. London, May 20. Owing to danger from fire, tho Maori village at the Festival of Empiro has been moved to the Whilo City, whore a Coronation Exhibition is being held.

NEW PICTURE FOR MELBOURNE. London, May 2G. The trustees of the I'elton Bequest (Melbourne) have, purchased for tho National Gallery of Victoria a fiuo portrait, by Sir Harry Bacburn, of Admiral Deane. The price paid ivas t £ooo. LORD DESMAN'S STAFF. London, May' 26. The Govejnor-Gpiieral-clect of Australia (Lord Denman) has nppoinied Sir Walter Barttelot and Lieutenant Nutting' his aides-de-camp, DUMA MEMBER SENT TO GAOL. St. Petersburg, Mny %. Tho Prefect of Police has ordered M. Bulat, a Labourite leader in tho Duma, to be imprisoned for six weeks for nonpayment of a fine of .£2O imposed on him lor not informing the police that there ■wero two visitors slaying in his flat. STATE RUBBER PLANTING. Melbourne, May 2". The Federal Government is lending the Papuan Administration .£SOOO a year for five years for the purchase of a. rubber plantation. BITTER PIT THEORY. Molbourno, May 27, Dr. Jean White's theory that the cause of bitter pit in apples is tho spraying of tho trees with arsenate of lead, if, to be tested by the Federal and State Governments. FIRE BRIGADE GRIEVANCES. Sydney, May 27. The Hro Brigade Employees' Union have issued claims which involve an increase in wages of 20 per cent, Do not try to endure that nerv«-raeking cough. Zymolo T,rol«ys will stop it and remove the irritation. Thev dispel hoarseness and strengthen th« throat.—Advt. 7 WITCn'S HERBAL OINTMENT. (Registered.) Erery family requires some kind of ointment to be kept in the house to bo used in Hut treatment of burns, scalds, chilblains, bruises, ulcers, scalp fores, inflammatory ! ' n •l> sc <'*«s (particularly of parasitic origin)—in fact, in any cato in which an emollient antiseptic drossnsr is required. WITCH'S OINTMENT acls ■soothingly and curativclv in all eases of haemorrhoids or piles. Price Is. Cd. and 3s. Gd,. all chemists and stores. Tussicura MMiufacturing ■ Company, proprietors,— Advti