GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ — . '■ 9. r . MR, ROCKFELLEIt'S ILLNESS. 1 New York, February 9. : Mr.) J. D. Rockefeller, the multimillionaire, who becamo ill while b?ing examined at the Jekyll'lsland, Georgia, by the Money Trust Investigation Committee, is out of immediate danger. JUMPING RECORD. . i New' York, February* 9. [At Boston, Piatt-Adams broke '■' tho jworld's record in the • three standing jumps, doing 81ft, 9Jin. . [The figures are evidently incorrect, as they havo been surpassed oh previous occasions.] ,' COMPULSORY GREEK. , , London, February 10. A memorial is being prepared' urging Senate of Cambridge University toabolish compulsory Greek and revise and simplify the entrance examination. J. D.' WILLIAMS'S CASE. •' Sydney, February 10. The hearing of the charge against J. P. Williams, managing direotor of the Greater D. Williams Amusement Coy., Ltd., of abetting tho forgery of a share order, has been adjourned until tomorrow, , NEW ZEALANDER KILLED: , Sydney, February 10. John Rankin, who was employed , on the North Shoro railway, was struck' by an engine and succumbed. Tho police' report that his parepts reside in New ZeaCOSTLY CLUB BUILDING. , Melbourne. February 10. The Governor laid the foundation stone of,the new building for the Commercial Travellers': Club, jvhich is being erected at a cost of >6120,000. .' ' CO-OPERATION-LABOUR FUSION. Londoni February 9. ' A conference of representatives of tho Co-operative and Labour movements re-, solved to prepare proposals for political fusion, and submit, them to a conference in May next. • COTTON TRADE DISPUTES. London, February 9. A conference of representatives of the Lancashire cotton trade referred to the law oourts all claims for compensation for injuries, including a dispute in which compensation was withheld. All other outstanding disputes havo been settled. ROYALTY IN THE AIR. - Madrid, February 9. King Alfonso and Princo Leopold' of Battenberg sailed over Madrid in a dirigible. They were in the air for two hours. RUSSIAN PLOT DENIED. : St. Petersburg, February 9. The, story that tho police had discovered that a committee 'of action, elected from 1 the Union of Russian People was planning to murder Prince Qoffi'oi Hohcnlohe, the special emissary from tho Emperor of Austria to tho Tsar, is officially aescribod as a senseless invention.

AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. Port Said, February 9. The Australian cruiscr Melbourne has arrived here. The cruiser Drake, lata flagship on the Australian Station, has sailed from here in continuation of her voyage to England. BURMAH LIBEL CASE. Rangoon, February 9. The Viceroy of India , has remitted eight months of tlio year's sentcnco passed on Mr. Arnold in October last for defamation of the District Magistrate at Mergui, whom lie accused of wrongfully acquitting a British, officer charged with the abduction of a native girl. NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR. ' Tokio, February 9. M, Katsunosuke Inouze, who was formerly Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, has been appointed Ambassador in London, [M. Inouze was born in 1860, nnd is an adopted son of the Marquis Inouze. Ho entered the sorvieo of the Japiineso Foreign Office in 1885, and for nine years, from 1898 to 1007, was Japanoso Ambassador in Berlin.] CHEMISTS' STRIKE SUCCEEDS. Buenos Ayrcs, February 9. The chemists, who closed their shops as a protest against the new tax on pharmaceutical preparations, havo reopened, following the suspension of tlio Act. A commission has been appointed to consider modifications in the- measure.