GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1752, 17 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph-Press

NEW ZEALAND JIE AT FOR 'FRISCO. (Rec. liny 16, 11.30 p.m.) San Francisco, May IC. The Tahiti's cargo of beef and mutton lias been landed, and it is expected that it will causa a break in. tho prices here, which have been higher tliau thoso .in tho Eastern States, POLICE COMMISSIONER- RETIRING. London, May 10. Sir Mnlvillo Leslie' MacNaghtcn (Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police and Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard since 1003), is retiring from 'Scotlajul Yard oil account of ill-health. EMPIRE DAY. London, May IG. It is estimated that 37,500 schools overpeas and 21,900 in tho United Kingdom, totalling altogether nine million scholars; will celebrate Empire Day. FACTORY STATISTICS. Melbourne, May IG. An official report shows that the number of factories in the Stato at the cud of last year was 5203, an increase of 231. The'hands employed numbered 92,552, an,increase of. J232. Mai© hands incronsod ( by 5.2 per cent., ami female by 3 per cent. OBITUARY. Sydney, May IG. The Rev. Father Keatiug, rector of St. Ignatius College, is dead. ELECTED MODERATOR. Melbourne. May IG. Tho Rev. W. Alexander has beeil elected Moderator of tb.o Presbyterian Assembly. A ROYAL MIDSHIPMAN. New York, Mav 15. Tho armoured cruiser Cumberland, with Prince Albert Frederick, the second son of the King, a midshipman, aboard, has arrived at Halifax. The Cumberland visits Sydney and Newfoundland before returning to' England. A NOTORIOUS ANARCHIST'S LIST. Berlin, May 15. The man who ran amok at Munich and killed a policeman, and mortally shot Major Lewinski, an attache of tlie Prussian Legation, proves to be an Anarchist, with, eighty convictions against him. AUDIENCE WITH THE KING. London, May 15. The King received in audience tho Anglican Archbishop of Sydney. His Grace returns to Sydney, via Vancouver, to-morrow.