GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2127, 20 April 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

fir TMcerash—Press AEBOcJatjcm-Soisyrijrht _*——^ —_— POPULATION FOR AUSTRALIA, (Rce. April 19, 5.6 p.m.) Londdn, April 18, The Indrapnra km soiled for Sydney with nine hundred emigrants on board, toe Wing four hundred "blind alloy" ladg, SOCIALIST BGOM~IN BERLIN. Berlin, April 17. /. As th_e fesuit of a- week's campaign, til© Sootolist' Party increased its membership by 70.000 to 1,052,850. EXHIBITION, London, April 17. Mr. AsguitTi (the Prime Minister) and Mr. Burns (President of the- Board of l Trade) will shortly. receive a deputa* tioti represoating 366 M.P.'s, asking the Government to reconsider its decision regarding the- Franco-British Exhibition. IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND. London, April" 18. One hundred and thirty wjyes and families, and 50 domestics, Jiave sailed by the Rotortra for New Zealand.*" "Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. St. PAUL'S^ATaKfiRAL. London, April 8. If teperiments at present being made are .successful, it is. probable that- liquid cement will bo injected by compressed air into the subsoil under St. Paul's Cathedral to strengthen the fomidn[tions.—"Times" and Sydney "Siin" ' services, ; STOLEN SOVEREIGNS SWALLOWED London, April 18. A woman st the Glasgow Police Court was charged with the theft of £.17 10s, A previous search for the money bad ■proved,unsuccessful, until an. examination under the X-Rays showed that she bad swallowed fifteen sovereigns and five lia.).t'"sovfiroig.n3.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services; NEW FRENCH POSTAGE STAMP. _ ' . NfiS:, April 18.' The design of • the French postage slump is being changed to present a view of the Eiffel Tower, with an aeroplane Hying past. The present stamp, showing a' woman with autstretehe.d amis sowing a. field of corn is teo easily i'flrged. j -"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. FIRE IN SYDNEY. Sydney,, April 18. A fire in the suburb of Glebo., by which -Oldham's eoachworks were destroyed, did damage to the extent of #5000.