GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1885, 20 October 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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THE FALLING BIRTH .RATE. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, October 18. , 4 The National Council for the Promotion of Public florals, lias formed & commission to inquire into the falling birth rate, under the presidency or Bishop Boyd-Carpenter. . VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES. Managua, October 17. 1 Violent eartliqilnko Shocks were felt at Managua, Mazaya, and Granada. tnroo_ towns in Nicaragua, Central 1 America. ; Houses rooked, and the populaco crowded mto.tlio streets. There was"**" some panic, but little damage was done. | The volcano of Santiago is active, CANADA'S GOVERNOR-GENERAL London. Ootobor 17. Under the assumed titles of Lord and Lady Strathcyldo, the Duke and Ducligbb of Connaught have departed for Canada. Thero worn huge crowds to see them off. Tlie Duchess lias quito recovered from her illness. • • , DEVOTED HUSBAND. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables:' Berlin, October 17. Princesß Victoria, wife of ex-King Manoel of Portugal, is still in hospital. Manool is in constant attendance. BROTHERS' FATAL QUARREL. (Rec. October 20, 1.15 a.m.) . . • Sydney, October 19. A is reported from Campoi*. down. Leslie Coves shot his brother Victor in tlio stomach, and tlien shot himself. Leslie is dead, and Victor is in a precarious condition. The cause of the tragedy is not clear, VICTORIAN BOWLERS COMING. (Rco. October 20, 1.15 a.m.) Melbourne, October 19. ; The Bowling Association ■!b sending a team of not more than thirty bowlers ! to New Zealand about Christmas.' Tlio tour will last about five weeks. ' . , - INDIGNANT FRENCH WOMAN. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables, - Paris, October 18. j Madame Mario Garot has been elect-": ed _ deputy-Mayor of Manonville. Sha' is indignant at the honour thrust upon her. Ifbr husband is proceeding agauial 1 . tho oouncil for criminal libel.

OOTTON DISPUTES SETTLED. ; (Roc. Ootober 19, 6.5 p.m.) London, October 18. • All outstanding disputes in the oot> ton trade liavo been settled. REAPPROOHEMENT. : (Roo. October 19. 5.5 p.m.) Stookholm, October 18. j An important movement is progress^; ing for a rapproohement between Swe- 1 don, Norway, and Denmark, and for practical disarmament by reducing tho armies and restricting thorn to frontier defence. , BRITISH PARLIAMENTARIANS. • (Rec. Ootober 19, 5,5 p.m.) Oapatown, October 18. Tho British Parliamentary party haf ' arrived at Durban. \ STORM AT MALTA, j Malta, Ootober 17. The worst storm in living memory has ; ocourred hero. Eleven inches or rain' ; fell in seven lioure, end several vll-; j lages wore inundated. Immense damage' I has been done. i LATE SHIPPING. ; Hobart, October 19, ' Sailed.—Marore, for Wellington. > ; COMMITTEE OP COMMERCIAL IN» ; TELLIGENCE. ; (Reo. October 17, 9.25 p.m.) London, October 17. Captain Muirhead Collins (Sccrotnri ill Great Britain, to tho Commonwealth'\ i jovornment) and the Hon. T. Slacken* i sie (High Commissioner of New Zca«! • and) have been appointed members of, ■' iho Board of Trade's now Advisory ' Committee on Commercial Intelligence' I 'or a term of threo years. . j EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING , : DETECTED. !

(Rec. October 18, 0.15 a.m.) J Now York, October 17i The smuggling of women's drc'M :ods from Britain on a large scale has :en disclosed by tho Customs seizure ; ! tho schooner Woodward Abrahams, search disclosed huge quantities of itiablo goods hidden under a cargo of aster, • i

"OAT AiND MOUSE." ' j London, October i 6. j Mrs. Edith Rigby, wife of Dr. Charles Rigby, who in August last oonfessed to i tho Liverpool Cotton Exchange and j Riviijfiton Hill outrages, and was sen* ; toncedi to nino months' .1 being released 1 after hunger-striking, . ' was rearrested 1 at Preston as a defaulters ! •under tho "Cat and Mouse" Act. j THE LIVERPOOL TRAGEDY. ' j London, October 10. At tho toquest on tho bodies of tho' victims of tno Liverpool tragedy, a vordict of murder and fclo-de-so was re- : turned against William Macdonald, wlio I Idlled Miss Crompton and a man named; ; Gaze, wounded a youth named Roberts,j and then committed suieido. > LEIPSIZ CENTENARY IN AUSTRIA'. '1 Vienna, October 16. , ! • The centenary of tho Battle of ) Leipzig was celebrated by a military disnlay in the Rclnvarzwibiirg-Platit. Tho Emperor Francis Joseph was present. EMIGRANTS EVADE CONSCRIP- ' TION. j Vienna, October 10. ' 'Altinan ; local manager of the Cana- J dinn Pacific Railroad Company, and i three others hare been arrested on sus- >! pipion.of inducing persons liable for < military service to emigrate to Canada. j ' LATE REV. DR. DILL MACKY. : (Rci. October 17, 0.25 p.m.) i Sydnoy, October 17. j Tho funeral of the late Rev. Dr. Dift j Maok.v was an impressive one. All v tho Protestant bodios wore largely ro ■ presented. , , ; A-modern Romeo 'has been arretted at 1 Calcutta for having climbed up a water- •; pipe 120 ft. lons iu order to hold convcrsa ; mth Jiia Juliet, ' • i