GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1897, 4 November 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Tclsffraph—Presa Association—Copyright

BREAKING UP THE SCOTCH ESTATES. (Reo. Novomber 3, 11.10 p.m.) London, November 8. ■Mr. -William Ewing Gilmour has offered Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) one hundred thousand acres, chiefly situated in the mountainous districts of Ross and Sutherland Shires at £2 an acre. Mr. Lloyd-George . is consulting tho Development Commissioners about the matter. STATE INDUSTRIES IN ENGLAND. (Reo. November 3, 11.10 p.m.) London, November 3. Tho Board of Trado is establishing trade boards in connection with sugar refining, confectionery, food preserving',' shirt-making, metal 'working, hollow ware, ahd linon and cotton embroidery Industries. The decision affects two hun- . 'dred thousand workers, including many women and girls. i BILLIARDS. (Reo. November 4, 0.25 a.m.) ' London, November 8. Gray is willing to play Newman on the same terms as ho played Stevenson, after tho Stevenson match. , ' • WIRELESS GIRDLE OF THE. WORLD. (Reo. November 3, 5.10 p.m.) London, November 2. The Marconi Company is reinforcing its sorvices between. America and England by the erection of additional highpower stations, and also with San Francisco, Hawaii, Japan, and, later, tie Philippines, Brazil, and the Argentine, making a wireless girdle of the world. . -Sydney "Sun" Special. ATJSTRALIA~AND OLYMPIA. : (Rec. November 4, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney,.November 3. 'An influential committee • was appointed at a public meeting at the Town Hall to-night to raise funds to, secure adequate representation for Australia st tho Olympiad at Berlin in 1916. • 'AUSTRALIA'S MILITARY SYSTEM. (Rec. November 3, 8.10 p.m.) ; London, November-2. Hundreds of protests are Teaching the Commonwealth Offices in London ' from residents of Great Britain against Australia's universal military _ service .system. - The Commonwealth is.instituting a fresh: campaign to counteract the effect of the National Peace Council's propaganda.—Sydney "Sun" Special. CORPSE EARMARKED-FOUL PLAY : SUSPECTED. A Brisbane, November 3. An regarding the disi jappearance of a dairyman named Vessey j at Selwyn resulted in the unearthing of /i human remains near the dairy and the i orrest of a youth. The details are flneagre. : : . 1 . MEHEGAN BEATS WELLS. (Reo. N0vemb0r.4,10.25 a.m.)Molbourno, November 3. •' Mehegan beat Wells on-points in 20 Tounds, thus winning the light-weight' ' championship of Australia. STAMPING OUT SUTTEE. (Rec. November 4, 0.25 a.m.) ' Allahabad, November 3. Tho High Court has rejected the ap•/peal of five relatives sentenced for abetting Brahmins in suttee —the immolation of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. The defence was that the flames desoended from hoaven. ..THE KING ANDTIIS WORKMEN.. " ,■ London, November' £?. ; The King's message in connection •t ijvith: the dinner given to the workmen \ pngaged at Buckingham Palaco confratulated tho men on their remarkablo andicraft in making tho palace a • worthy addition to tho Empire's memorial to Queen Victoria..

NEW STORIES BY THOMAS HAEDY. •< v London, November 2. • Mr. Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet, has published some short characteristic stories. They arc instinct with his bent qualities of irony, tho most conspicuous feature being their bitter-k'indly philosophical quality.. He gives a peculiar astringent tang to every one of them. • —Sydney "Sun" Special.. , SCENE AT A MORTUARY. , Paris, November 2. There was a scene at Boulogne mortubry during the removal of the body of Jjady Warrington to England. Despite the authoritative papers, the mortuary 'officials opposed tho removal of the iljody. . Tho undertaker, .however, obtained the body, his assistants holdinc Ithe conciergi while the hearse drove off to the steamer. , [AUSTRALIAN PIANIST IN LONDON. London, November 2. The newspapers favourably .notice a pianoforte recital at tho Eolian Hall by Miss Winifred Burston, an Australian. ' THE PERIL OF THE DERELICT: ■ London, November 1: . Reducing speed to avoid colliding with Ahe stoamer volturno', which aftor being on fire in mid-ocean, became a derelict,' cost the steamer Olympic a one hundred miles extra voyage between New York and Plymouth. Note. —the Volturno was subseciuently sighted by Unother steamer, and scuttled. ' FORTY MILLIONS FOR FRENCH ' ; . ARMY. Paris, November 2. A forty million loan is pending for expenditure. This is chiefly auo to tho triennial army service. * SUFFRAGETTE fANDALS. ' London, November 2. Suffragettes are suspected of scoring ••with diamonds deep wavy lines on a tfozen plato-glass windows in shopping fcentres of Edinburgh. (Rec. Novembor 4, 0.25 a.m.) London, November 8. Suffragettes fired the ■ St. Reatham Hill railway station. Tho outbreak, however, was quickly extinguished.