GENEBAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1908, 17 November 1913, Page 7

GENEBAL CABLEGRAMS.

BJ Telegraph—Prcae Association—OopjTljht POLICE AS ART CENSORS. Paris, November 14. The Police Commissioner of the Champs Elysees district of tho city, in making a private inspection of th.o works of art at thd Salon, before the exhibition opened, observed a study in,, the nudo which he condemned and ordered to bo removed, LORD ALVERSTONE'S PENSION. (Rec, November 16, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 16. Lord Alverstoiie, who has just retired from tho office, of Lord Chief Justice, has been granted a pension of £4000. GERMAN SPY SENTENCED, London, November 16. ' A.n engineer named Bray Alsabsn has been sentenced to threo years' ponal servitude at Leipzig foT selling Franco information concerning and j fortress guns. EIGHT HOURS FOR MINERS IN FRANCE. Paris, November 16. The Senate lias adopted the Miners' Eight Hours Bill, previously passed by tho Chamber of Deputies. BRAZILIAN CROP LOST. Buenos Ayres, November. 16., Half the corn crop in tho Bahia Blamca district of Brazil has been lost. MINING DISASTER IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, November 16. A fall of earth at tho Artvin copper mines killed six men and injured twenty-eight. Sydney, November IS. Tlio storm at Neville razed five buildings, including a hotel, And several trees. Panama, November 14. An earthquake was experienced in tho Canal zone,'. The Canal was: not damaged. Paris, November 14. Tho French Government has approved of a Bill authorising a loan of 13,000,000 francs (about £320,000) at 3 per emit.