GENERAL CABLEGRAMS
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EMPIRE TRADE COMMISSION. (Rec. October 27, 11.20 p.m.) London, October 27. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, tho Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, stated that he hoped shortly to appoint tho Empire Trade Commission, arrangod for at tho recent Imperial Conference. A HEAVY TOLL. London, October 27. 'A Liverpool doctor estimates that at least five hundred children died in August aM September as a direct consequence of tho strike interfering with food supplies. BACHELOR AND SPINSTER TAX. Berlin, October 28. Tho Diet of tho principality of Rcnss has imposed on bachelors and spinsters over thirty years of ago a surtax beyond tho income tax, amounting to 5 per cent, on incomes between .£l5O and £.1(10, and 10 per cent, on larger incomes. H.M.S. PYRAMUS. Sydney, October 27. The warship PyTamus has returned from Colombo with her newly-commission-od crow. MEN AND WOMEN EQUAL. Melbourne, October 27. The census returns show that tho sexes in Victoria aro almost equal, with a hundred and one females to ovory hundred malos. THE PRINCE OF WALES. London, October 20. The Prince of Wales goes to a university. Tho captain of tho Hindustan, on which the Princo was a midshipman, said that ereryono would bo sorry to loso a good comrade. SHIPWRECKED EMIGRANTS. London, October 2G. Miss Jane Adam, matron of tho emigrants for Australia by tho Papanui, abandoned at St. Helena after being gutted b.V' fire, roports all well. Sho acknowledges tho generous help received from tho whole of tho island, and the touching self-sacrifices of tho poorest inhabitants of St. Helena. CHURCH OF ENGLAND MEN'S SOCIETY. London, October 2(1. The Church of England Men's Society has held great meetings in London, and is showing increasing activity. There are 112,000 members all over tho world. MELBA OPERA COMPANY; Sydney, October 27. There was a remarkable sceno of enthusiasm at the Fend-off to Melha's Grand Opera Company, wluoh has loft for Molbourne. t
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 28 October 1911, Page 5
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324GENERAL CABLEGRAMS Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 28 October 1911, Page 5
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