GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1799, 11 July 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 9 AUSTRALIA IN LONDON. (Rec. July 11 1 , 1.10 a.m.) Sydney, July 10. The Millions Club has appointed Mr. George Goldie, a Sydney journalist, to organise tlie Australian Carnival in London in 1915. GENEROUS HOSPITAL BEQUEST. (Eec. July 11, 1.10 a.m.) Sydnßy, July 10. A resident of Newtown suburb, who left estate worth over .€30,000, after providing for an annuity for his widow during her lifotime, and somo small bequests, left the w'iolo estato to be invested in inalienable Government securities, the income going to tlie Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. HOBART COAL-LUMPERS. (Rec. July 10, 10.20 p.m.) Hobart, July 10. The coal-lumpers' dispute has been settled. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July 10, 7.23 p.m.) London, July 10. Mr. Walsh's Nationalisation Bill was not taken seriously. One speaker remarked that the Bill seemed to involve somo slight chargo upon the taxpayers, a remark that was greeted with laughter.

STERILISATION OP SHELFISH. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July 10, 7.25 p.m.)

London, July 10. Speaking at the Sanitary Congress which is sitting at Exeter a medical man declared that fishmongers ought to bo compelled to eteriliso shell-fish before offering them for sale, steaming them for iive minutes.

CRYSTAL PALACE FUND. (Sydney "Sun" Special—July 10, 7.25 p.m.) London, July 10. The Crystal Palace Fund has now reached a total of ,£78,500. A GRACEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT, London, July 10. ■M. Poineare (the French President), to mark the occasion of his visit to England, has provided a dinner for 2500 of the East End poor of London, SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE BILL. London, July 10. Tho Scottish Temperance Bill has been read a third timo in tho Houso of Commons. MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. (Sydney -"Sun" Special.) London, July 9. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's seventy-' seventh birthday was widely celebrated. The state of his health is unaltered.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION, (Sydney "Sun" Special.) . Zurich, July 9. A Sunday school convention has opened here. There are three thousand delegates, including four hundred from Britain, fifteen hundred from the .United States and British Dominions. THE ATTEMPT ON KING ALPHONSO. Madrid, July 9. Alegre, who attempted the life of the King of Spain, has been sentenced to death. COMMONWEALTH OFFICES. London, July 9. The Queen and Princess Mary vnll attend the ceremony of tho laying of tho foundation-stone of the Commonwealth Buildings, to be performed by the King on July 24. PARALYTIC- RECOVERS HIS FACULTIES. , Melbourne, July 10. A remarkable case is reported. A man named Ilton, an inmate of tho Austin Hospital, who for twenty-nine years had been paralysed, and deaf, dumb, and blind, has recovered all his faculties. He is aged seventy years. JAPANESE PROTEST. New York, July 9. At Denver, Colorado, Japanese are appealing to their Ambassador against an order barring them from the uso of bathing facilities. "OVERDOSE OF GINGER-POP." New York, July 9. At Los 'Angeles, California, a boy drank thirteen bottles of "ginger pop" to candy. He died. CHILD MURDER. Perth, July 10. William Duck, charged with murdering a four-year-old child, has been acquitted, on the ground of insanity, and sent to an asylum. Ho has twice attempted to commit suicide. [Duck, who was known to be mentally deficient, led the child into a garden, and smashed its skull with a big bone.] BRIDGING SYDNEY HARBOUR. Sydney, July 10. Mr. Griffitn, Minister for Public Works, announced that the Government has decided to defer construction of the proposed cantilever bridge across tho harbour, from Dawe's Point to Milson's Point (estimated cost of .£2,750,000), on the ground that the matter is one of convenience, not necessity. , NEWSPAPER PRIZE COMPETITIONS. London, July 9. In the House of Lords, Lord Loreburn introduced a Bill to prohibit prize competitions in newspapers, entailing payment of an entrance fee. BIPLANE FATALITY. Berlin, July > At WurzbuTg, Herr Ledner, an aviator, was biplaning with a Frenchman as a passenger, when tho machino fell, and both were killed.

Miss May Huxley, who has been engaged to appear with John M'Cormaek during his forthcoming tour of Australia, is a brilliant young English soprano who lias made an unusual success on the London concert platform. She is the daughter of a urinter of Walsall (England), and says tnat she has lwen singing ever since she was a child. For the last five years she has been under the care of Madame Albani, who already predicts a big future for her. At nineteen she won her L.R.A.M., and made her first professional appearance at Western Super-Mare in July, 1900, and, in November of tho same year, had so far advanced in popularity that slio was singing with such wellknown celebrities as Kirkby Luun and Ada Crossley. Alberto Randegger, the famous musical authority, regards her as a rare artist, and once told her mother that her daughter belonged not to her, but to tho nation.