GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 22 March 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

ByTelecraph-Pre*" Aenorlntlnn-CouTrlEhl 4 SUFFRAGETTE SENT TO GAOL. London, March 20. A Suffragette named Pitfiold has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the second division. The sentence, it was stated, would have been more severe but for tho illness of tho accused. PRIVY COUNCIL CASES. London, March 20. Special leave to nppcnl to the Privy Council has been refused in tho caw Johnston v. Hie English and Australian Copper Company, Ltd.; nlso in tlic caso James Morrison and Company v. Lung. FRANCE AND MOROCCO. Paris, March 20. The Chamber of Deputies has voted 60,000,000 francs (.£2,500,000) for military operations in Morocco. SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. Cape Town, March 20. Sir Leander S. Jameson, speaking at Wynberg, intimated that he would shortly retire from tho leadership of tho Opposition in the Union Assembly. Sir Thoinas Smartt would succeed him. A REPORT DENIED. Sydney, March 21. Tho malinger of Bremian's Amphitheatre has deuied a cabled report from Now Zealand of an approaching amalgamation of Messrs. Bremian's and Fullers' theatrical firms. He staled that the repoct was a canard. SOLID OIL FUEL. London, March 21. Messrs. _Harlnnd and Wolff, tho, Belfast shipbuilding firm, rv.id the Great. Western Railway aro testing solid oil fuel. HUNGER MAI! CHER DIVORCED. London, March 20. The Edinburgh Court of Session grouted a decree of divorce against Stev;art Gray, who was prominent in tho "Iniimor marches" somo years the ground'of divoree being adultery.