GENERAL CABLEGRAMS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

— $ - MAORI ENTERTAINERS. London, April 10. Arrangements have been made for tho Maori troupe of entertainers, who have been stranded in England for somb'time, to return to New Zealand by tho Pnpaim, leaving London to-day. PEACE CENTENARY. ■' , , London, "April 9. The Australian High t Commissioner, Sir George Reid, will represent Australia at a preliminary meeting"'of delegates in New York in connection with tho Peace Centenary celebrations. MR. W. S. PENLEY'S ESTATE. London, April 9. The estate of tho lato Mr. W. S. Penley, tho comedian, lias been sworn at £15,000. CANNOCK CHASE STRIKE ENDS. London, April 9. The strike of miners at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, has ended. ' The non-union-ists have been eliminated from somo of the mines. BLACKMAILER SENT TO GAOL; London, April 9. Reginald Treloar, ■ alias Nicholson, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and his brother George was acquitted, on charges of attempting to blackmail Mr. Cyril Maude, tho well-known actor. MR. WATT'S TOUR. London, April 9. Tho Victorian Premier, Mr. Watt, inspected the Tilbury Docks. He declares that considerable extension, would be necessary in order to accommodate tho increasing size of steamers. Ho is arranging to visit other docks in London and tho provinces. • NAVY DOCKYARD BLACK-LISTED. London, April 9. As an outcome of a dispute .regarding tho rates of pay, trades unions have listed the Portsmouth Dockyards as a "black" shop. A NEW JUDGE. Sydnoy, April 10. . Mr. J. M. Harvey, a well-known Sydney equity barrister, lias been annoinied tdytlie vacant Stale Judgeship. OBITUARY. London, April 9. Sir Cli'ineni Lloyd Hill, Unionist M.l'. for Shrewsbury sineo 1900. is dead. | Sir Clement Hill, 1v.C.15., K.C.M.G., was born in 1815. nml entered tile Foreign Office in lfG7. He became chief of tho Foreign Office African Department in 1891 and Superintendent of African Protectorates in J9OO, retiring in 1905.]