GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tslcsraolj—Pre»B Aejoclation-CoDirrlßlit •' .BUSINESS MAN DROPS . DEAD., i Sydney, January 8. Mr. Howflll,'lately geiieral manager in Sydney for tho Howard Smith Steapisliip Company, to-night dropped dead in tho street. \ \ RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA; • Ottawa, January-8." Mr. Foster, Minister for Trade,, sails for Australia on February 2 to discuss tho proposals for tariff reciprocity'- 1 between Canada and Australia. ' > : MOTORISTS BURNT TO DEATH. , -Calcutta, January 8. Two Bengali juto brokers, on' a motoring journey, endeavoured to avoid a buffalo, with' the result that their car fell into a ditch*,and both wero pinned under dt . and burned to. death. ' . PICTURE: SHOW, COMBINE. , , - Sydney, January 8. : J. D. Williams's, Wests, and Spencer's pictures and otljor film importers' have effected a wArking-business arrangement* Every 'film firm is> Invited to join tho amalgamation.-,- ~ ■ ' : IMMIGRANTS FOR'-AUSTRALIA. ; . ■ ■■'.■ ! - London, January 7. , The Western Australian Government has secured' three ■ thousand berths in White'■ Star steamers for 1913. SECRETARY FOR AGRICULTURE. 1 • ■. ' London, January 7. Sir Syduoy Olivier, Governor nf< Jamaica since 1907, lias been appointed Permanent Secretary for Agriculture ill succession.to Sir Thomas Elliott. • - CAPE TOWN UNIVERSITY. Parti, January 7! The South African Committee, Senator Pauliat presiding,,)ias voted -C 2200 towards a Chair of French Language and Literature in the Capo Town University. FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION, Berlin, January 7, The Frenchmen who were arrested ut Metz on charges of 'recruiting Germans for, the French Foreign Legion, have been released. , . .. ;1 ■ 1 ■ ORANGE CROPS RUINED. Vancouver, January 7. . Gales and frosts liavo ruined the orango groves in California, Svhich has been experiencing unpfecedented weather. NATIVES TRACKED DOWN." Port Darwin, .January '8. After tracking three natives for a month over five'hundred miles'of territorv, a trooper has arrested them on a cliargo of murdering two > Chinese gardeners, whoso bodies were found beneath tho ruins of a shed near Pine Creel:. AVIATION INSTRUCTOR ARRIVES.. Frcmantle, January B,* Mr. H. the' Commonwealth aviation instructor. lias arrived from Eiurlaud.