GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1753, 19 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Praes Association—Oapyrißht

,4 PRESBYTERIAN MODERATOR. Perth, May 1". The Rw. Mr. Oxer has been fleeted Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly. STOCK RETURNS. Brisbane, May 17. The stock returns to tho end of last year give a total of 605,509 horses, an increase* of 46,645 i cattle, 5,209, nit, an increase of 136,493; sheep, 20.243.550, a decreaso of 492,401. THE LATE SIR CODTTS LINDSAY. London, May IG. It has been rewaled that Sir Coutts Lindsay, who died on May 7, marriedu widow a week after his first wifos death. [Sir Coutts Lindsay was torn in 1821, and married in 1801. His first wife (a daughter of tho Into lion. Henry Ntarov, M.P.), died in 1912. There was no hl?ir.] REFLOATED. Hongkong, May 16. Tho Portuguese cruiser Adamastor, which was ashore at Dumbell Island, has been refloated. THE PALACE OF PEACE. The Hague, May 16. The Cariicgio Palace of Peace will be opened on August 29. Every nation lias j contributed towards tho cost of its construction. DECLARATION OF LONDON. Copenhagen, May 10. Tho Permanent Bureau of the International Congress on Maritime Law lias approved of the Declaration of London. DETECTIVE SENT TO GAOL. St. Petersburg, May 16. Mishtshuk, an ex-detective, and two other defectives, have been sentenced to a year's imprisonment with hard labour, at JCielV, for concocting evidence regarding an alleged Jews' ritual murder of a Christian boy. MANUFACTURE OF RIFLES. Sydney, May 15. 'I'lio Federal arms factory has turned out the first consignment of forty rillea, which haM-j satisfactorily passed exhaustive tests. SYDNEY CITY RAILWAY. Sydney, May IS. The State Cabinet is taking defmito steps regal-ding the malting of a city I*4.ilwny- It has decided lo ask for Pnrlinnr.'ntavy authority to construct tho railway without reference lo the Works Committee of 1h« City Council.