GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1215, 25 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Uγ Tclecraph-Press Atsociationr-OopyrlKht . \ IRISH LORD CHANCELLORSHIP. (Rec. August 24, 11.40 p.m.) London, .August 24. It is believed that Mr. Redmond Barry. K.C., Attorney-General for Ireland, will succeed the late Sir Samuel Walker as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. RAILWAY COLLISION. ■' Buda Pest, August 24. An express train, while, en route to Kassan, collided with jiuother tiain. Six persons were killed and , ten others severely injured FRENCH MANOEUVRES CURTAILED. Paris, August 24. Owing to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease tho Grand Army manoeuvres have been reduced to divisional and brigade exercises. SIR GEORGE REID. London, August 23. Sir Georgo Reid, Australian High Commissioner, who was injured in a motorcar accident nt Broadsinirs a few week* ago, has undergone a slight operation to rcnuvo a fragment ol splintered bone. The operation was successful. CHOLERA IN TURKEY. Constantinople, August 23. All the schools in the capital nave boon closed owing to tho cholera. HERR RICHTER SAFE.. Constantinople, August 23. Herr Edivard Richtcr, a German scientist, who was kidnapped by brigands on the Mount Olympus Range, and ior whom a ransom of .£50,000 was demanded, Ims been discovered safe on the Greek frontier.

VICTORIAN PRODUCE. Melbourne, August 23. Victoria's pr«ducts in 1910 amounted in value to A HEAVY RAINFALL. Sydnoy, August 24. Over six inches of rain has fallen since Saturday. Later. Tho rain continues, and a stiff southeast gale with heavy weather at sea. KALGOORLIE LIBEL ACTION. Perth, August 21. A libel action brought by Mr. M'Kenzio, a member of the Legislative Council, against tho newspaper "Kalgcorlte. Miner , ' resulted in a verdict of .£IOOO damages, with costs, for plaintiff.

A suggestion has been made that tho memories of Iho jinst. Ma.vwi nf the city of Auckland should be perpetuated by inscribing their names on a tablet and erecting this in the new Town Hall. Tho present Mayor (Mr. C. J. Parr), when seen on tho subject, said in many Friendly .Societies there was a praiseworthy custom of presenting the retiring master with a jowel or badge commemorative of his y«ar of service. "I think," said Mr. Parr, "that wo might well import tins custom into our civic life. Some eight or nine of our ex-Mnyors aro living in our midst to-day, who have given valuable timo to tho city, and it serais to me that it would bo a gracious thing to reeognisA their worth by presenting each of them at the opening of (ho now Town Hall in December with a neat medal in gold, and n suitable badgo which could l>s worn on the lnpel of the coat, and might bo used by ex-Mayors on all official occasions."