GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Teloffraph—Pre»i A»i»ciation—flspyricbi « THE LATE DUKE OF FIFE. (Rec. February 2G, 0.25 a.m.) London, February 25. The King and Queen met the warship Powerful at Portsmouth. The late Duke of Fife's coffin was entrained for Windsor and then taken on a gun carriage to the Albert Chapel. The funeral will take place on Wednesday, BANK AMALGAMATION. p Montreal, February 23. The press reports the pending amalgamation of the Montreal Hank with tho ■Union Bank. If the merger is consummated the non- bank will bo ono of tho strongest in the world'financially. " ; PEACE CONFERENCE. Melbourne, February 24. ! Tho Trades Hall Council carried a resolution that an International Peace Conference of delegates from Australia and ' New Zealand be held in Melbourne. GOVERNMENT TO BUILD HOUSES. Sydney, February 24. In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Dacey, Colonial Treasurer, introduced n Bill providing l'or power to be given to the Government to build houses for letting on the settlement "which the Government proposes to raise, now known as Daceyville. YORKSHIRE COACHHOUSES. London, February 23. King George has started a stud of Yorkshire coachhorses at Hampton Court. JURY DISAGREES. j London, February 23. '• The jury -disagreed in the action William Lotinga, a sporting journalist, against Corlett, cf the "Sporting Times." Lotinga complained that the "Sporting Times" unjustifiably attacked him during his bankruptcy proceedings. OBITUARY. Ottawa, February 21. Tho Hon. William Miller, tho Inst Canadian Senator appointed by Royal Proclamation, in 18G7, has died of paralysis. HORSE-RACING IN INDIA. Bombay, February 21. The Government lias drafted a Bill placing horse-racing under Government control. A HEALTH TRIP. London, February 23. ! Sir Melville Macnaghten, chief of the . Criminal Infestation Department, has failed for Australia on a health trip. 1 . PUBLICLY DEGRADED. ! Paris, February 23. ' Corporal Deschamps, who in November I last was sentenced to twenty years' ini- t prisonmejit for stealing n niitrnilleuci! nnd sowing it to Germany, was publicly degraded at (,'lkilonc. ' T