GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Teleer»ph—Pr«aa AiKiciation-Oepjriehl ■ e—:—

OLYMPIC GAMES.

Melbourne, February 3. The Federal Cabinet has declined to grant financial aid in sending the eightoar crew to the Olympic games.

MB. OSCAE ASCHE.

London, February 2. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Asche have sailed for Australia. in the Otranto. Tho remaining forty-five membors of tho company will eail in the Osterley.

NEW PACIFIC STEAMERS.

Montreal, February 2. Mr. BosTTorth, vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, announces that now Pacific steamers are being built for tho Oriental trade. They will be convertible into war cruisers.

EMPIRE CABLE RATES.

Ottawa, February 2. Mr. Pelletier (Postmaster-General) intends to press the Imperial Government for further reductions of the cable tolls throughout the Empire, with particular reference to Canada.

A COMPLETE ANSWER.

Perth, February 5. F. D. Brown. Australian manager of the Singer Sowing Machine Company who has been arrested on a charge of conspiring to defraud tho company, infoTmed the Court that he had a complete answer to the charges against him.

NATIONAL DEFENCE.

Ottawa, February i. The Dak* of Connaught (GovernorGeneral of Canada), in replying to a deputation, from the Canadian Defence League, said ho approved of its aims, including tho awakening of a consciousness of the need for national defence on an adequate scale,.. and tho training of all youths between fourteen and eighteen years of age.

EXPLOSION OF SHELLS.

St. Petersburg, February 4. While the Russians were handling confiscated Persian shells in the citadel at Tabriz, an explosion killed one officer and fifteen men and wounded seven others.

THE HERO OF CANNES.

Paris, February 4. Mr. A. J. Balfour is quite a hero at ■Cannes through winning several tennis prizes.

BURIED IN SNOW.

St. Petersburg, February 4. Eighteen persons were frozen to death and thirty buried in the snow in tho Ishim district, Western Siberia,

. 'TASMANIA?? ELECTIONS.

Hobart, February 5. The general elections hare been fixed for April 30.

SAFETY OF A STEAMER

Sydney, February 5. Advices from Noumea state that the steamer France, which was reported as being overdue from New Hebrides, is safe.

MEMORIAL SERVICES.

Cairo, February 4. Lord Kitchener (British Agent and Minister Plenipotentiary), and high British Egyptian officials, including a representative of the Khedive, attended a memorial service to tho lato Duke of Fife.

THE WILCANNIA REPAIRED.

Durban, February 5. The ntenmer Wilcannia has boen repaired, and her cargo has been resbipped.

ARGENTINE STRIKE ENDS.

Buesqs Ayres, February 5. The railway strike has virtually ended

COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, February 5. •U a meeting of the Commercial Bank of* Australia it was announced that it had* been decided to pay off one-third of tho remaining deposits by March 31.

SERVIAN CABINET RESIGNS.

Belgrade, February 4. The Servian Cabinet has resigned owing to King Peter's refusal to dissolve the Skuptschina.

BILLIARDS.

London, February i. Lindnim'e ecoro is IG.OOfI. Hβ made a break of 4fi2, including 429 off the red. Recce's is 9548. SOCIALISTS FOMENT TROUBLE. Ottawa, February 3. Labour troubles are growing" in Vancouver, being fomented by Socialists, who demand tho right to speak in the streets, contrary to tho special police regulations.