GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1701, 18 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By.Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, —♦ ? ' FRENCH AVIATOR KILLED. (Bee. March 17, 10.20 p.m.) Paris, March 17. M. ■ Hercier, while aeroplaning at Amberieu, near Geneva, was killed.

LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY. ( , Cape Town, March'l7. The Livingstone centenary was celebrated yesterday in most of tho churches. LARGE THEFT OF BONDS. Rome, March 17. A large hole was bored in a safe at Messrs. .Scheggi and Borghi's bank in Rome, and .£14,000 worth of bonds stolen. CHINGFORD RESERVOIR. London, March IG. There were' enormous and enthusiastic crowds present when the King set the machinery in motion at Chingford reservoir. The reservoir lias been named King George's Reservoir. VERONAL A POISON. London, March IG. As an outcome of tho Trevanion case, veronal and other hypnotic drugs havo been placed on the poisons schedule. PARIS FANDIT ARRESTED. Paris, 'STarch IG. Tliibault, an accomplice of the bandit Lacombo, who was arretted last week in possession of a bomb and three Browning pistols, made an attack on the posf oflico at Bezons, a villprge on the outskirts of I'ari?;. He was arrested. RESCUED FROM"THE ICE. . , St. Petersburg, March IG. Tho forty-five Astrakhan fishermen who were adrift on an icefloe have been rescued. AMBASSADORSHIP DECLINED. Boston, starch IC. Mr. Richard Olncy, an ex-Secretary of State of the United States, who was offered tho position of United States Ambassador in London, lias declined it. Ho ha« not stated any reason. EARTHQUAKE RECORDED. Sydney, March 17. A very sevcro earthquake, about 3300 miles distant, was recorded on Friday by tho seismograph at Riverviow. It is supposed to bo at the Philippines.