GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1169, 3 July 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TelerrMili— Press Association—Oopyrleht I 4 . CHOLERA AT TRIESTE. Trieste, July 2. Another caso of 'cholera has occurred on the steamer Oceania. SHAKESPEARE THEATRE FUND. London, July 1. The Shakespeare fancy dress ball .at the Albert Hall resulted in a profit of .£IO,OOO in aid of the rand for the erection of a Shakespearo Katioual Theatre in Loadon.

LORD STRATHCONA. London, July 1. Sir Wilfrid,Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, has announced that Lord Strathoona will shortly be resigning the High Commissionership for Canada in Loudon. THREE SEAMEN ASPHYXIATED. London, July 1. Three seamen have been asphyxiated on the battleship Superb by an explosion of coal gas in the bunkers. NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL. London, July 1, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, attended a National Conference of Friendly Societies, and, after two hours' cross-examination, intimated his willingness to reduce tho minimum membership of approved societies under his National Provident scheme to five thousand. . A SUSPECTED DYNAMITARD. London, Juno 30. A man believed to bo David Caplan has been arrested in London for alleged complicity in the Los Angeles dynamite outrage. VICTORIA'S EX-GOVERNOR, London, June 30. Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, lato Governor of Victoria, and Lady Carmichael, were welcomed at Charing Cross on their return from Australia by many friends and Victorians at present in London. THE NORWICH SHOW. London, Juno 30. The day's attendance at tho Royal Agricultural Show at Norwich was nearly double that at the Liverpool Show. ALBANIA DEVASTATED. London, June 30. The correspondent of tho Times at Skutari confirms the reports of the devastation of tho Malissori country. AUSTRALIAN ARTIST'S SUCCESS. New York, Juno.3o. A picture by Mr. Hayley Lever, of South Australia, "The Railway Viaduct," has been hung on the lino at tho Pittsburg International Exhibition. CANADIAN RAILWAY. Ottawa. Juno 30. Conferences between .officials of tho Canadian Pacific and the Erie Railway Companies aro being held at Winnipeg, they are believed to indicate that the former company is contemplating un * agreement leading to the eventual absorption of tho Erie railway. [The Erie ' railroad runs through New York, New • Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and I Illinois, and lias a total mileage of 2331 . miles. The Canadian Pacific mileago is : 10,270.]

GOVERNMENT INSURANCE. Cape Town, Juno 30. The Union Government has decided to carry firo risks an public buildings and tho railways.

THE AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE. Molbourne, July 1, The Federal Government has decided to experiment with automatic telephones at small exchanges.

Melbourne, July 1. Sentence of death lias been recorded against a coloured man found guilty of burglary with wounding.

Sydney, July 1. In tho State Assembly, Mr. Waddell, ex-Treasurer, commenting on Mr. Jnstico Higgius's decisions in Federal industrial cases, called tho judge "a sentimental humbug."