GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Preee A.S;odE.tioß.-CopyrigM

ALL-BRITISH SHOPPING MOVEMENT. (Roc. November 13, 0.5 a.m.) London, November 12. At a meeting held in connection with tho AlWJrifcisii Shopping. Movement, Sir Newton Moore (Agciit-Geperal fo.f Western Australia) moved in favour of tho principle of supporting Imperial industries.

Mrl T.- Mackenzie, New Zealajid High Commissioner, seconded the motion, arid advocated all-the-yenr-roiuid yipplies of .New Zealand butter.

SYDNEY'S WELCOME TO SIR GEORGE REID. Sydney, November 12.

Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia) has reached Sydney and has been accorded , a great public reception. The illuminations utilised in welcoming the Australian fleet were reproduced on many buildings in his honour. RAILWAY YARD FATALITY. ■ Sydney, November 12. Three men who wore skeltering from 'a storm behind a truck in the Forbes railway yards, failed to hear, _on account of thunder which Was pealing, the shunting of a horse-box, Which struck their truck. Two of them/ Walsh, a recent arrival from New Zealand, and M'Mahon were killed. A third, named Brownlow, was badly injured. ALL-RED MAIL 1101?®. London, November 12. Capital is being raised in Boston and Great Britain for the purpose of extending the proposed AMted mail route— from, Australia to a, terminal port at Blacksod Bay, Ireland —to Boston, via Halifax.

WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS,

London, November 12. Earl Beauchamp succeeds Lord Brassoy as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.

WELCOME RAIN. Sydney, November 12. Thunderstorms and useful rains have relieved hot and. droughty conditions in. many districts. COUPLE TWICE DIVORCED. London, November 12, A New Guinea planter named Mouton has obtained a divorce for the second time from the wife of his first marriage. Mouton divorced his wife, but later, after a reconciliation, re-married her. BRITAIN'S IMPERIAL ARMY. London, November 11. General Sir J. D. P. French, rf?ply<ing. to the toast. "The Army," at the Lord Mayor's banquet in the Guildhall, said that as Chief of the Imperial Gen« oral Staff he was .always in the closest communication with tho staffs of the Oversea Dominions. "I am very glad to be able to assure you," ho said, "that the relations between the v&rious parts of the Imperial Army grows closer and more cordial every year."—Sydney "Sun" Special. ABDUCTION CASE. London, November 11. Alfred Weaver, a boot manufacturer, of Perth, Western Australia,' against whom application has been mado for an extradition order on a charge of abducting Mercia Weaver, a'ged eight years of age, said to be his daughter, has been bailed out. The lady superintendent of tho West Australian Emigration Department is taking care of the child. ' .

SUFFRAGETTE FIRE-RAISERS. London, November 11. The Lawn Tenuis Pavilion at Catford was destroyed by fire. Suffragettes are suspected. Suffragettes have burned "Begbrook," a vacant mansion at Franchay, Bristol. A Suffragette bomb partially wrecked "Cactus House," at Alexandra Park, Manchester, containing a valuable collection, THE POPE AND AUSTRALIA. Rome, November 11., The Pope gavo an audience to Dr. Kelly, Bishop of Gcraldton> Western Australia. His Holiness evidenced great interest in Australian life, a»d referred tu tho progress of Catholicism in Australia. BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PARTY. London, November 11. Lord Haldnne, Lord Chancellor, will preside at the Empire Parliamentary Association's banquet on November 26 to welcome the association's delegates who recently visited Australia and other Dominions. ' . EX-SULTAN OF MOROCCO. Cairo, November 11. It is rumoured that Bedouins kidnapped the ex-Sultan Mulai Hafid of Morocco, who, abdicated in August, 1912, and was allotted a pension of £14,000 a year, aud who has been missing for some time.

Sydney, November 11. Three. cases of smallpox were reported in the City to-dny. There are two suspected cases at Maclean. , (Ree. November 13, 0.5' a-m.') Sydney, November 12. One case of smallpox was reported in the metropolitan urea to-day. Tlirco eases aro reported from Adelong, and xme from 'femora. The lastnamed ease is that of . a boxing fight promoter, and was diagnosed after a contcst where thcro wcrti three hundred spectators present.