GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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SIR lAN HAMILTON. London, September 18. Tho " Daily Express" states that General Sir lan Hamilton will probably be appointed Commander-in-Chief in India (m succession to General Sir O'Mooro Creagli) when the post of In-spector-General of tho Overseas Forceß (which Sir lan lias held sinco 1910) is abandoned.

CARDIFF COAL FOR FRANCE. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rco. September 19, 6.10 p.m.) London, September 19. Tho Frenoh Admiralty has ordered 100,000 tons of Cardiff coal, NEW PORTS FOR, NEW, SOUTH' WALES, i Sydney, September 19. Sir Allen Taylor has initiated a debate in tihb Legislative Council in favour of decentralisation, the opening up of new ports at Port Stephens and Jervis Bay, and legislation to ouoourago producers to send thoir products to the nearest port. Tlio scheme has met with strong opposition, [TYPHUS IN. BERLIN AND, HAMBURG. Berlin, September 18. There are several cases of typhus here duo to contamination of the Iliver Elbe. Tho contamination is attributed to the rinsing of bottles containing infected milk.

There are numerous cases at Hamburg, where batjiing establishments have closed. ■ • ■ ■

THE NEW HEBRIDES,

Melbourne, September 19. Mr. Glynn, Fedoral Minister for External Affairs, informed a deputation of Presbyterian clergymen, wto _ complained of tho unsatisfactory working of the Anglo-French New Hebrides convention, that ho did not think there had been any conscious condonations of breaches of the convention. He hoped a conference would shortly be arranged between the two Governments,

FIRE 'AT GHENT EXHIBITION. London, September 18. 'At midnight a fire broke out in tlio Rhoinland Restaurant at tho Ghent Exhibition, and spread to a shop adjoining. The confectioners and bakers' pavilion and four other pavilions woro speedily destroyed. The fire was extinguished after burning fcr two hours and a-half. THE EXHIBITION BOYCOTT. •Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. Berlin, September 18. Tho' Union of Gorman Industrialists, embracing 65,000 firms, passed a resolution to the effect that tho union was absolutely opposed to participation in the Panama Exhibition at San Francisoo, ■ 'ANTI-GOSSIP LAW, New York, September 18. 'At Marinotte, Wisconsin, the latest freak law, that against gossips, has beon enforced. Peter Kosoki, a Niagara resident, was arrested and charged with gossiping about a girl acquaintance. The Court warned him against repeating the practice and dismissed tho case, pointing out that the Wisconsin law did not allow goßsip likely to injure aiiyono's reputation. GOLD FOR GERMAN WAR RESERVE "Times"—Sydnoy "Sun" Speoial Cables. Berlin, September 18. The journal "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that the German Treasury has recoived bullion totnlliug forty million marks (nearly £2,000,000) from tho Roichsbank for tho purpose of increasing the gold war reserve.