GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1709, 28 March 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By TeleEraph—Press Association—CopyTisht * . LATE LORD WOLSELEY. London, March 26. Lord Wolseley will bs buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday. BAPTIST UNION PRESIDENT. London, March 2ti. The- Rev. George Pearce Gould, M.A., president of Regent's Park College, lias been elected .president \of ■ the Baptist Union., ' STEPANSSON ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Londori, March 26..' - Mr. James Murray, who was the biologist of Sir Ernest. ShacMeton's expedition in Antarctica;-in 1908, lias joined Mr. V. Stcfansson's Arctic exploration party, which is .to set out from America, this summer. ' COLONIAL MINISTERS BANQUETED. London, March 26. Tho Government banqueted the Hon. W. A. Watt (Premier of Victoria), the Hon. A. H. Peake ■ (Premier of ' South Australia), the Hon. J. Allen (New Zealand Minister for Defence), the Hon.: W. A. Holman (Attorney-General of New South Wales), anil tho Hon. L. O'lxraghlin (M.L.A.,: South Australia) 'at the Foreign Office. There was a largo coin£any, including Lord Beauchamp. Mr. ewis Harcojirt, Secretary of State for the Colonies,"received the guests.

• NEW SOUTH .WALES CABINET. London, March 27. The-.caucus. has, : decidod,"-iiit;.to appoint "a Minister in place '.of. Mr. "Beeby, who retired somo months ago,, after which a redistribution of portfolios, was made. ....

SYDNEY TRAGEDY.' Sydney, March 27, : Frederick William Adams has been sen. tenoed to death, with a strong recommendation for mercy, . for 'feloniously wounding Lilian Lambert, with , intent to murder. [Adams shot his. cousin, Miss Lambert, whom he had courted for years. The woman married another. Jealousy was the cause of the crime.] EDUCATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney,".March. 27. Mr. Carmichael, Minister, for Education, in urging the need and importance of continuation schools, pointed out that only six per cent, of tho boys and girls of the State attended school beyond tho compulsory ago of fourteen.

CANADIAN POLITICAL CRISIS. Ottawa, March 27. . The Liberals have agreed to allow the Government a vote of Supply in consequence of the chaotic state of the uublic Departments. .' OBITUARY. Sydney, March 27. The death is announced of Mr. James Curley, formerly secretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation, and a prominent Labour party supporter.