GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1674, 14 February 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By TeleeraDh-Prcss ABioektioii-Oopyriehl

ABYSSINIAN DISPUTE. Addis Abeba, February 13,, The dispute between Princj Lij Yasu and King Menelek's household has been peacably settled. , ii : MISSING BOAT SAFE. London, February 13. The missing boat of tho Spanish steamer Paulina, wrecked on': tho coast of Wigtownshire, is safe. CONGREGATIONAL CHAIRMAN. : London, February 18. ~D r\ A?®y> chairman of the Congregational Union, will shortly visit Australasia. CABLE RATES FROM CHINA, rm, ~ Peking, February 13. . in® cablo companies have agreed on a press rate to Europe of BJd. a word. HIGH COURT BENCH. na , , Sydney, February 13. Offers of High Court Judgeships have been cabled to Mr. A. B. Piddington, a prominent Sydney lawyer, and Mr. Powers, the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor, both of whom are holiday-making in England. ... A VALUABLE HORSE.. , London, February 13. A horse named Highjumpcr, winner of | prizes at Olympin, was sold for '1150 'guineas,' . . 'ANCIENT RELICS. ' London, February 12. The coffins of King-Canute's twin children, drowned in' Whittled Mere, about nine hundred years ago, liavo boon found in the monastic oeuietery at Peterborough.

KING, THANKED .FOR READING' BIBLE. London, February 12. - Tho Council of the Sunday School Union has presented an address to the King thanking him for reading tho Bible daily. . BEQUEST TO OXFORD, < London, February 12. Dr. Charles Theodora Williams, the well-known physician, bequeathed J!119,4G7 to Oxford University for tho purposes of medical education. A RO.YAL"PRIZE-WINNER. London, February 12. Queen Alexandra won first, second, and third prizes for Basset hounds at the Croft Show. Her Majesty also won several other prizes. ,

SIR JOHN TAVERNER. t London, February 12. Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for Now South Wales, presided at tho AgentsGeneral's farewell luncheon to Sir John Tavcrner, who has been Agent-General lor Victoria since 1901.

.RUSSIAN. PEASANT,RISING. St. Potersburg, February 12. Kro thousand peasants at Kharkov demolished the oourtkousD, and lynched two horso.thieves.

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE NAVi'. Capo Town, February 12. Speaking in tho Union, Parliament, Sir Thomas S'martt, Leader of tho Opposition, and Mr. T. Cress well endorsed General Botha's statement that the remarks of Sir Richard Solomon, High Commissioner for South Africa, that ho hoped the visit to Cape Town of tho battle-cruiser New Zraland would stimulate the growing feeling for co-operation in South Africa, were purely personal and in no way committed tho Government. '

AUSTRALIAN NICKEL COINS. Melbourno, Fcbruarv 13. Tho Federal" Government has decided to adopt nickel instead of oopper coinage.

CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION. Melbourne, February 12. Tho Chapmoii-Alexander mission and patty are passengers. to New Zealand by tho Moeraki, which sailed to-day for the Bluff. ■

SMALLPOX ON A LINER. Port Darwin, February 12. Tlie steamer Eastern has arrived from Port Darwin with a fireman Buffering from smallpox.

MISSING NAVAL CUTTER. London, February 11. Tli3 cutter belonging to the cruiser Perseus, which has been missing since the,end of last month, has been officially declared lost. ' .i , A CANADIAN EXAMPLE, i London, February 11. Tho "Pall Stall Gazetto" says that the spending by Canada of two million pounds on agriculture and veterinary instruction is an example to Britain. MISSING ESPIONAGE EVIDENCE. Berlin, February 11. A prominent police official at Kiol has been arrested for accepting a heavy'bribe for destroying; a document incriminating a friend who is in custody on an espionage charge. ; \ I POPE'S SISTER, DEAD. Rome, February 11. Tho death is announced of the Popo's sister, Rosa. The Priiiio Minister (tho Hon. W. F. Massoy) returned from Morton yesterday, where no attended the inaugural show of tho Marten A. anil P. Society. Tho Minister for Custbms (the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher), who attended tho Dannovirke show yesterday, also returned to town last evening. The lions. R. 11. Rhodes, W. 11. Herries, and W. Frascr aro still out of town. Tho Town Hall, public libraries, and lighting offices of Wellington will bo closed to-day, on account of tho annual corporation stall' picnic. Tho libraries will rc-opon at 7 p.m. Tho Mnstcrton ram and ewe fair is announced 1.0 start at tho Solway Groluuls, Mastertou, on Thursday, February 20, at 10 a.m.-