GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 2 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telecrapk—Press Association—Ooprriitht X THE SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. (Eec. June 1, 11.25 p.m.) Capo Town, June 1. Union Day was observed as a public holiday. A festival week is in progress at Pretoria. It includes a procession of allegorical triumphant cars. INTERNATIONAL AIR CONGRESS. Paris, May 31. An Aerial Congress, at which seventoen States, including Great Britain, aro represented, has been opened here. COMMONWEALTH REVENUE. , Sydney, Juno 1. Tho Federal revenue for the eleven months ending yesterday was ,£11,948,469, an increase of .£262,198 over that for the same period of last year, Y.M.C.A. CANVASS. ■ London, June I.' A twelve days' lightning canvass'of Swansea produced .£12,000 for the local Young lien's Christian Association. "ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA." London, 31ay 31. Tho Cambridge Press has sold 29,130 sefs of the new "i'neyeiopaedia Britannica" during tho last; seven months. This represents i»30,000. PREVENTION OF DESTITUTION. London, May 31. At the Caxtou Hall, a thousand delegates from public bodies and social welfare societies attended the National Conference for the Prevention of Destitution. ' MR. FIELDING'S VISIT TO LONDON. Ottawa, May 31. Mr. W. S. Fielding, Minister for Finance, explains that his coming journey to London is for reasons of health, not to assist Sir Wilfrid Laurior with advice on Tariff matters. BIG LOSS OF RUBBER. Penang, May 31. Seventy thousand pounds of rubber was accidentally burnt at the Gedong Estate, Baganserai. COMMONWEALTH FINANCE. Melbourne, Juno 1. The Acting-Federal Treasurer estimates the surplus at half a million. STARCH-MAKING EXPERIMENTS. Melbourne, Juno 1. The Federal Government is testing the suitability for use of starch made from wild rice in the Northern Territory, where millions of acres of the vegetable may be seen. POISON IN THE MAILS. Melbourne, Juno 1. Sorters at the Buchiin Post Office wore rendered ill through the presence of several broken bottles of strychnine in ninilbags.; How tho bottles got there, is a mystery. CHINO-JAPANESE BOYCOTT. Sydney, Juno 1. The Japanese steamer Kumano Jlaru has arrived with 207 Chiue-e passengers from Hong-Kong. This is considered to be.evidence that the boycott by Chinese against the Japanese is breaking down. [Presumably the Chinese are bound for ports beyond Australia.] PICTURE SHOWS ON SUNDAYS. Sydney, June 1. An effort is being made to obtain an expression of public opinion regarding Sunday picture shows, in connection with which stringent regulations as to payment ,for entrance and the character of films were recently decided on, CHOKED BY FALSE TEETH. Sydney, June 1. A young man at Bathurst swallowed his false teeth while laughing, and was choked. t BARBERS' PRICES. Sydney, June 1. The hairdressers have decided to indefinitely postpone tho date of raising the prices, owning to lack of unanimity. EXCITING CHASE AFTER A BURGLAR. Sydney, Juno 1. The police arrested a supposed burglar after an exciting chase over the roofs of tho Metropolitan Hotel and adjoining buildings in Goulburn Street,