GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 6 October 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

LESS ROOM FOR IMMIGRANTS.

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London, October 5. Tho regular Australian liners havo decided to curtail tho space allotted to assisted immigrants and will devoto it to the accommodation of paying passengers.

A PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE.

London, October 5. Tho Hoxton Conservatives linvo adopted Mr. Robert Sievcr, proprietor of "Siever's Monthly," as their caiididato tor tho next general elections. [Mr. Sievcr has been prosecuted and convicted at different times for sending improper publications through tho post.l

FAMOUS PORCELAIN COLLECTION,

London, October 5. Mr. W. H. Lever, Chairman of Lover Bros., Ltd., has purchased Mr. Richard Bonnet's famous collection of Chinese porcelain described in "Tho Times" of May 23, for ,£300,000.

RECENT WRECK'S,

St. Helena, October i. Tho steamer Papanui lias boon scuttled. Sho was entirely curat and tho wholo of her cargo lost. Sydney, October 5. The Underwriters' Association has received advices that there will bo no salvago cither on the hull or cargo from the wreck of tho Papanui. There may possibly bo a small salvage from tho wreck of tho Hfeshire.

"KB TEMERE" DECREE.

Sydney, October 5. The Anglican Synod has carried a resolution solemnly protesting against tho pretensions of tho Roman Oatholic Church as embodied in tho "No Temerc" decreo against marriages between Protestants, and Roman Catholics.

DR, BOYD CARPENTER.

London, October 5.' Dr. Boyd Carpenter, who recently resigned tho Bishopric of Ripon, has accepted a cauonry at Westminster.

BANK RATES ON LONDON.

Melbourne, October 5. Tho banks have advanced tho buying rates of exchango on London five shillings per cent and reduced tho selling rates similarly.

CHATHAM SENTRY ATTACKED,

London, October 4. Two men, one of them a foreigner, Lad a desperate struggle with n sentry near the powder magazine at Fort Amherst, Chatham. The men escaped, and so far efforts to trace- them liavo been unsuccessful.

THE COLONIAL OFFICE,

London, October 4. Tho Colonial Oflico staff is being reorganised owing to tho resignation ol Sir Charles Lucas, Assistant Under-Sec-retary for Stato and head of tho Dominions Department of the Colonial Office. Sir Charles's post will not bo filled.

CHARING CROSS BANK SMASH,

London, October 4. A. W. Carpenter, of tho Charing Cross Bank, has boon committed for trial on a charge of obtaining J!500 by means of a falso prospectus two days before his bankruptcy.

A MEREDITH HEROINE.

Brlin, October 4. Hclcno von Donnigcs, tho heroine of George Morodith's book, "Tho Tragic Comedians" (published in 1SS0), committed suicide at Munich by taking chloral hydrate. Her third husbaud, Baron Schewitch, has just died.

DUTCH STEAMER BURNT.

Batavia, October 4. The Dntch, steamer Ixion, 5180 tons gross, was burnt near Engano, in tho Dutch East Indies. A boat with twentylive persons is missing.

BRITISH M.P. ON TOUR,

Perth, October 5. Mr. T. C. Taylor, M.l\ |for Radc.liffe-cum-Farnworth, in tho British House of Commons, and leader of tho Anti-Opium party, was-a passenger by--the- steamer Orsovn. . . .