GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright o— . THE FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE. London, June 21. The authorities,. of the "Festival of Empire" havo booked, three and threequarter million visitors during July and August. The intending visitors are chiefly provincials. These are in addition to the ordinary paying public. LORD ROSEBERY'S TITLE.' London, June 21. , Lord Rosebery, in; ah interview, said he would.continue to be known by his Scottish title as Earl of Rosebery* and not as Earl of Midlothian, his new title in peerage of the United Kingdom. . • WEST- AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE. London, June 21. The West Australian annual dinner was largely attonded. Sir John Forrest (exFederal Treasurer-and first Premier of Western Australia), in the course of a speech prophesied that Western Australia would in a few years bo the greatest wheat producer in the Commonwealth.

;' A TASMANIAN APPOINTED.-, London, June 21. -'■'■. Mr. Wishart 'Smith, manager, of the Midland, Railway, ' Western Australia, been'appointed' Tasmanian. Railway '-- Commissioner. ,: ' , -' r: ' ' : '"' "' ■'" .' ALLEGED INDIAN CONSPIRACY. Calcutta/June 21. '•:>- A- youthful' Brahmin- who had been in the company of the murderer of Mr. , Ashe, a collector, has been arrested. The crime is alleged to have been the outcome of a carefully-planned conspiracy. A CHAIR OF AGRICULTURE. Melbourne, June 22. The University Senate has decided to . • establish a professorship of agriculture. '■ / AUSTRALIAN" LOANS. ' ■ ' : Sydney, June 22. i ■ The New South Wales Government has arranged to borrow another million pounds from the Commonwealth Government. The loan will have a currency twelve months, at 3 per centum. The money now loaned by the Commonwealth to the States totals nearly four million pounds. .. THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. ■:•_ ' „ ' London, June 23. The seamen on strike at Southampton have accepted the Royal Mail and Union / Castle Companies' offer of an increase of • ; ten shillings a month in their wages. A CUTTER FOUNDERS. ■■■„•' ' Perth, June 22. . The'pearling cutter Thistle foundered rt Shark's Bay. .Two of tho Malay crew wero drowned. .• NON-UNIONISTS BARRED. ~.,,' " Pcrth x June 22. A ballot by the Boulder anu Kalgoorlie branches ot the liijr.'rs' Union uccided that unionists are noi to work with nonunionists. No decisive action has yet been .taken. PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS. ' ,„, , ~ 'Melbourne, June 23. ±ne Acting-Federal Minister ior Defence has promised sywpatnetic consideration to a proposal to provido pensions tor soldiers. He saiu something suould he done to make tUe position or the soldier in Australia as comiortable as possible. THE PRINCE OF WALES. ■ im. ii ■ , \.. . Lo nd°n, June 22. . The Prince of Wales has-been officially tated as a midsnipmaa of the Fleet. DECISION AGAINST A TRUST. New York, Juno "2 The Circuit Court at Delaware decided that the Powder Trust, under the leadership ot the Denomours Company is a combination in restraint of trade Its dissolution .has been ordered. A FATAL SALUTE. London, June 22. ' Mr. Charles Radford, a prominent townsman of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, was firing a salute from a cannon, which exploded, killing him.