GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1502, 26 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright.

A POLITICAL COURTESY. Sydney, July 25. The State Premier, Mr. M'Gowen, has secured the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly, to give Mr. Wade, who is still ill, a chance of opening the debate on the Address-in-Reply.

POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND. London, July 25. Potato blight is spreading alarmingly in Wexl'ord, Ireland. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. London, July 25. Further outbreaks of foot and mouth disease ave reported among live stock in Yorkshire and Somerset.

A GENEROUS DONATION. London, July 21. Mr. Jacob Horwitz, of Berlin, an exmember of tho Queensland Parliament, has donated ,£7500 to tho Warwick Hospital. PENALTIES FOR MONEY-LENDERS. Lon'don, July 2f. Mr. J. A. Dawos, Liberal member for Newington, has introduced a Bill, providing for the imposing of heavy penalties on money-loader 3 lending to employees without their employers' knowledge, and oireularidng or writing to peoplo unsolicited.

"TREASURE ISLAND" SOLD. San Francisco, July 21. Christmas Island, in tho Pacific, has been sold to an unnamed buyer. Father Routiier negotiated tho sale from tho Groig family, owners of tho island. Christmas Island is tho reputed original of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island." A FIELD FOR IMMIGRATION WORK. Sydnoy, July 25. Mr. Neil=en, an ex-Minister of Lands, who has returned from a visit to America, eays that tho greatest ignorance prevails there concerning Australia. If proper inducements wero offered American farmers would come hero in thousands.