GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1893, 30 October 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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SAFETY AT SEA. (Rec. October 29, 11.30 p.m.) London, October 2D. Tiie President of tho Board of Trade (Mr. Sydney Buxton),_ proposes, with Lord Mersey, as president, an International Conference to discuss tho safety of life at sea. Tho conference meets on November 12. There .will probably bo ten British delegates. New Zealand and Canada will send special representatives. £> BRITAIN'S AIRSHIP FLEET. (Reo. October 29, 11.30 p.m.) Berlin, October 29. The Berlin "Tneliscbe Rundschau" states that Great Britain has found the Parseval airship so satisfactory that she has ordered an additional three. STEAMER DISABLED. (Reo. Octobcr 29, 11.30 p.m.) burban, October 29, , The steamer Palermo has arrived with her rudder-stock broken and leaking in No. 1 hold. ' Her is slightly damaged. H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. Port of Spain (Trinidad), October 23. Tho battleship Now Zealand has arrived hero. Sho will stay a week, ana will tako aboard 0110 thousand tons ot oil fuel. She will be the first warship to ever do so here. BAPTIST. CH UR OH APPOINTMENT. London, October 28. The Rev. T. E. Ruth,, of tho Houghton Street Baptist Church, Southport, has accepted the pastorship of tho Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne. KURIL DEVELOPMENT IN ENGLAND. London, October 28. The Development Commissioners are considering an- offer by the Duke of Sutherland to sell 200,000 acres of land ill Sutherlandshiro at £2 an acre. (Rec. October 29, 10.50 p.m.) London, Octobcr 29. Tho Duke of Sutherland, in reply to Mr. Lloyd-George's request to submit an official offer of his deer . forests, states thntuh'oiis willing i.to-. .accept ,40s. an acre, with.'five divisions ;of fat and lean land. - SUFFRAGETTE' INCENDIARIES. London, October 28. Suffragettes burnt Shirley Manor, Bradford. It was unoccupied. Iho damage is set down at £5000. MOTOR-CAR RECORD. London, October 28. A Talbot motor-car at Brooklands did over 110 miles an hour—a world s record. VENEREAL DISEASES. London, October 28. Expressly excluding the revival of the Contagious Diseases Act, the terms of reference instruct' Lord _ Sydenham s Commission on Venereal to report on means of alleviating or preventing the' effects of diseases on the community's health. STATE ATLANTIC CABLE. London, October 28. Mr. Herbert Samuel, PostmasterGeneral, has.returned from his visit to Canada. Ho reports that Canadians favour a. State-owned Atlantic cable. MORE ATROCITIES. (Rec. October 29, 11.30 p.m.) October 29. The Bulgarian occupation of territory allotted in Western Thraco has been completed. Bulgarian troops in tho of Gumuljina discovered that about 1000 Bulgarian women, children, i:nd old men whom the Turks had handed over to tho Bashi-Bazonks had been tortured, young girls violated, and killed. Sixty of the survivors were m a desperate plight. NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS. (Rec. October 29, 10.15 p.m.) Sydney, October 29. It is officially announced,.' that the New South Wales State elections will take place ou December 6.

RUSSIA'S NAVY EXPENDITURE. (Rec. October 29, 7.40 p.m.) St. Petersburg, October 29. The Government is hastening its naval programme. Hie expenditure of one hundred; and fifty million sterling, originally to have been spread over ten vears, will nrobably he completed in five years. —Sydney "Sun" Special. H.M.S. PYRAMTTS. (Rec. October 29. 10.."0 p.m.) London, October 29. Lord Kelburne, eldest son of tho Earl of Glascow (sometime Governor of Now Zealand) has been appointed to tho command of H.M.S. Pyramus (now stationed in Now Zealand waters). SPY SENTENCED TO DEATH. (Rec. October 29, 10.50 p.m.) Vienna, October-29. Jan. Kocli, !> Russian spy, has been sentenced .to death on a charge ot cspionago. (Rec. October 29, 10.50 p.m.) Koch's death penalty is due to the fact that a state of war obtained in tlio Balkans at the time'of tho offence. Many arrests have been made in connection with tho case. SHACKLETON'S PLANS FOR ■ ANTARCTICA. (Rec. October 29. 10.50 p.m.) London, October 29. Sir Edward Shackleton, the Polar explorer, has announced that ho will lead an expedition to Antarctica in 1914, the sphere of his operations being from sea to sea from South America to New Zealand. SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY. (Rec. October 30, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, October 29. Two cases of smallpox have been reported.