GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1184, 20 July 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tclccraph—Press Association—Copyriebt EARLY CLOSING FOE HOTELS. (Rec. July 20, 1.35 a.m.) m, Sydney, July 19. The iseir South Wales Alliauco has passed a. motion that bars for the sale of alcoholic liquor should be brought unAct P'' o ™' o£ the Early Closing. SYDNEY'S FISH SUPPLY. «wi. * Sydney, July id. At the first sitting of the Royal Commission which is inquiring into tlio price of loodstufts, witnesses stated that sevcral devices were used by fish agents and fishermen in keeping up the prices of hsli. Municipal control was favoured. BIG YIELD OF MAIZE. , . t T Sydney July 19. A farmer at Inverell has obtained 990 bushels of maaze from nino acres. CHINESE OPIUM LAW. m, r, Peking, July 19. Ihe Government has prohibited the importation of Persian and Turkish opium into China after January, 1912, INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. rn, . . ' Calcutta, July is. The majority of tho provincial committees of the Indian National Congress have agreed to invite Mr. liamsav Macdonald, Labour M.P. for Leicester, to accept the presidency of tho congress. SUSPECTED CHOLERA. ti, Pii n t Ottawa, July 19. Tho Elder-Dempster lmer Bendu has been quarantined at Montreal with two eases of suspected cholera on board. A BULL-FIGHTER IN CANADA. , c . , , , Ottawa, July 19. A Spanish matador has applied for permission to hold a bull fight .in ioronto city. The Police Commissioners nave refused the , application. ST. PAUL'S BRIDGE BILL. ti rii vt t> ■n . , L °ndon, July 19. Tho St. Paul's Bridge Bill, providing for a new: bridge across the .Thames, has been read a third time in tho House of Commons by 271 to 104 votes. MR. JOHN DILLON, M.P. m t'i r**n 'L ond on, July 19. Mr. John Dillon, Nationalist member tor Mayo East, who was seriously injured in a motor-car collision early in June, yesterday made his first appearanco in the House of Commons since his accident. WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION ACT RULING. ■ ™ „ . T , London, July 19. ine House of in an appeal caso> has dccided -'wifo-who-leaves her husband; and entirely maintains herself and her children is not entitled to claim under tho Workman's Compensation Act in the event of her husband's death. • XfifRULY CADETS FINED. mi c 1 ' Sydney, July 19. ihe first prosecution m connection with the recent acts of insubordination by a corps of unruly cadets was before the Court to-day, when two youths were fined for disorderly conduct. SYDNEY CITY FRANCHISE. mi. «■!_ „ ~ , Sydney, July 19. Ibe City Council has approved of the granting of adult suffrage for.tho elcetion of aldermen, instead of the present owner and occupier qualifications. BLACKMAILERS SENTENCED. c , . , London, July 18. Sentence has been passed on Henry Mar ow and Martha Lyster, charged with blackmailing Colonel J. R. Bain, an exmember of tho House of Commons. Mar. low was sentenced to fivo years' penal serutude, and,Lyster to eighteen months. BRITISH BY-ELECTION. ~, ~„ , , , London, July 18. .Mr. h. ilofigaard has been adopted as t ho .,. Unionist candidate for South-West Bethnal Green. SYDNEY STUDENT'S SUCCESS. , r 0 . „ London, Julv 18. JUr. Swain, a Sydney student, has been' awarded, for the third year, the 1851 exhibition scholarship for researches in the ! gas engine. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. 1 riu cm Melbourne, July 19. Father Shaw and a party have gone .0 King Island, in Bass Straits, to erect in experimental wireless station. — ( MR. ALFRED HILL'S MUSIC. < ~ _ „ ' Sydney, July 19. ! Mr. Sousa, of band fame, after hearing oma music-composed by Mr. Alfred Hill ' ormcrly of Wellington, gave Mr. Hill 1 i recommendation to his New York pnblshcrs. Ho also promised to assist in inroducing Mr. Hill s music into the Unitotates. LOCAL OPTION POLLS. ! t j 1 ,u , • Sydney, July 19. } In the State Assembly, a motion for '■ cave to introduce, a Bill to enable local iption polls to bo taken on a day other ban a general election day was talked BOYS FOR. AUSTRALIA. c- T , T - , ~ Sydney, July 19. Sir John Kirk, director of the Ragged ■chool Union, is en route to Australia nth tho object of placing a large num- a icr of boys 111 employment. t ■ MOTOR COMPANY' WOUND UP. « Sydney, July 19. The Court has granted an order wiiidng up the General Motor-car Companv, 11 ltd. ' c _ 11 •EW SOUTH WALES SAVINGS BANK, p > r r. ■ l Sydney. July 19. 5 Mr. Carmichael, Acting-State Treasurer, d as introduced into the Assembly a Bill ir the amalgamation of tho Savings Bank • f New South Wales with the Govern- )( lent Savings Bank. P TASMANIAN PARLIAMENT. u • , Hobart, July 19. W Tho Tasmanian Parliament has been ni pencd by tho Governor (Sir narry Bar)n). V c< RACEHORSE'FAMOUS DEAD. J} Sydney, July 19. M Tho racehorse Famous, winner of tho ej oncaster and Epsom Handicaps, has M ied as the result of injuries. j)