GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1421, 23 April 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

4 A SUGGESTION REJECTED. (Rec. April 22, 9.15 p.m.) Melbourne, April 20. The Federal Government lias rejected the suggestion of the recent Premiers' Conference, that the Commonwealth should annually arrango for 250,000 berths for immigrants, on tho ground that it is inadvisable to introduce divided control in tho work of immigration, which is now solely controlled by the States. MR. ROTHSCHILD'S ASSAILAN'J. London, April 21. William Tcbbit, the manufacturers' agent, who fired at Mr. Leopold de Rothschild on March i, has been committed for trial. Ho stated that he resented the suggestion that ho was insane. Ho would fully explain, his motives, which are mainly political, when ho was tried. GERMAN DUELLISTS. Berlin, April 19. Lieutenant von Herringen, a nephow of the Minister for War, General von Heeringcu, has been mortally wounded in a duel with pistols with Lieutenant von Puttkamer, over n lovo affair. HOULDER BROTHERS. London. April 22. Houldcr Brothers ore purchasing two refrigerated steamers and thirteen general cargo boats for developing tho Argentina trade. TARANAKI OIL WELLS. London, April 22. The Taranaki (N.Z.) Oil Wells Company is issuing 275,000 pound shares.

FOUR MEN IQLLED. Brisbane, April 22. Four young men, named Brown, Donogliue, Wilson, and Cordilly, wero killed by a fall of stono at a quarry, at Cloncurry. RAIN IN N.S.W. Sydney, April 22. A strong south-easterly blow, with heavy rain, which began last evening, continues. Good rains aro general. JOHNSON AND 'THE MASONS. London, April 21. Tho committee of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons has suspended the Forfarshire Lodge for three years on account of its admission of Johnson, the negro pugilist. THE MISSING AVIATOR, London, April 21. Th'ers is no news of Mr.' Allan, tho aviator, who was last seen off Holyhead attempting to fly across tho Irish Sea. IMMIGRANTS FOR, AUSTRALIA. St. April 21. The steamer Australiml,- with 501 emi- 1 grants for Australia,. 1 oallcd hero for coal and water and then proceeded on her way. BOY COMMITS SUICIDE. . Melbourne April 22. Carl Wokwerth.'a fourteen-year-old boy, committed suicide by hanging himself at Geelong. Tho cause for the act is unknown. THE UNREST IN MEXICO. Washington, April 21. Tho President, Mr. Tnft, is about to send a warship to the west coast of Mexico to ta'ko off isolated Americans in tbo disturbed districts. Considerable ill-feeling against tho United States is still prevalent throughout Mexico. THE BRITISH OPPOSITION. London, April 20. The two wings of tho Opposition, the Conservative, and Liberal-Unionist organisations, are amalgamating their headquarters into a National Unionist Council, with optional fusion in the country. NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT. London, April 20. , Many friendly society _ officials and others in all constituencies are joining the Amend-the-Act League, which has been organised to secure improvements in the Insurance Act. SEPTUAGENARIANS INCINERATED. London, April 20. By the burning of a shoemaker's s?liop at Chelsea, four septuagenarians wero incinerated. TAXI-CAB STRIKE ENDS'. Paris, April 19. The taxi-cab strike, which has lasted for several months, has been settled.

PETROLEUM IN PAPUA. Molbourne, April 20. The Defence Department has received a proposal from Papua to establish a national petroleum refinery.. Mr. Pearce, Minister for Defence, states that ho has received optimistic reports. lie is hopeful that a rich find has been made, A REPRIEVE REFUSED. Melbourne, April 20. Tho Exeoutivo has refused to reprieve Joseph Pfeffer, who shot his sister-in-law, Florence Whitley, on December 12, in Albert Park. His execution will fake place on April 29. This will be tho first execution iu Victoria for many years. STATE GRANT FOR TRADES HALL. Perth, April 21. At the opening of tho new Trades Hall yesterday, tho Slate Premier, Mr. Scaddon, nnnounccd that tho Government was donating £1000 towards llio building. A. Yorkshire collector of medals has been amassing medals for over 20 years, and has a collection of 2500, worth .£26,000. He has 50 medals that have been connected with either the peerage, baronetage, or knighthoods. An angler fishing nt Aldeburgh (England) landed a cod which had stowed away sufficient to .stock n small fish-shop. Among other things found in its stomach were six sprats, a teacupful of clams, a sea-anemone, several small crabs, and a .score of shrimps. The Italians in London are sufficient of themselves to form a large town. There are as many as 1-1,0(10, about 2000 of whom are ice-cream vendors and lflflO organ-grinders. The other 11,000 are chiefly engaged as pla.-ler bust sellers, artists' models, cooks, valets, teachers, artists, restaurants, and hotelkeepors, and so on. Twsttbvwott w<i a. half (cot fo Uw iauuiit of. a flrjwlwu&t*