GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright 1 . WINNIPEG RIFLES. V WILL COMPETE FOR THE EMPIRE TROPHY. By Telegraph—Press Aeenciation-Oppyrieht (Rec. May 6, 10.30 p.m.) • Ottawa, May 5. . Tho Winnipeg Rifles propose to send ■ a team to sboot for the Empire Trophy in Australia. Tho team .will afterwards oirclo the world. ( ! THE EMIGRANTS' FAREWELL. i ■ • , London, May 5/ 1 Sir George Reid (High Commissioner i for Australia) bade farewell'to 900 New - South Wales and Victorian emigrants ■ üboard tho Tyser liner Makarini' at Tilbury Docks. The emigrants include i 350 boys. '■ r . ■ FAVOURABLE NOTICE. London,. May 5., The' newspapers favourably notice ■ Miss Leila Doubleday's (the Australian ■ violinist) .violin recital at Bechstein • Hall. ' ■ ... s DISASTROUS FIRE. , Valparaiso, May 5. 1 . By a fire in the Plaza Echaurren, a v " block of houses covering 2} acres was destroyed, and .forty persons killed. t AUSTRALIAN SUBMARINES. 1 Port Darwin, May 6. The Australian, submarines havo ar« ' rived here from England. - PIERPONT MORGAN'S GRANDSON. "Timos" and Sytlnov "Run" Services. New York, May 5. ■' Junius Morgan, aged 23 years, son '' of Mr. J. P. Morgan, and a grandson ~ of Mr. Pierpont- Morgan, is engaged to i Miss Louise Converse, aged 19, of Boslf ton. Mr. Morgan is studying at Har- |" vard University. Tho wedding will !| take place when he has graduated. : WIRELESS TELEPHONY. "Times" and Sydney "Run" Berviccs. London, May 5. A successful demonstration of wireless telephony took place at Mr. Marconi's house. Tho Italian Navy is instilling the mechanism on its ships, and. other naval authorities aro Inclined to e adopt the system, which is simple. The call is as easy as in tho case of the ordinary telephone. A PRIEST'S SACRIFICE. "Times" and Sydney "S>m" Services. London, May 5. Canon M'Loughlin (Catholic), at Fishguard, in Wales, found o navvy on tlio roadside in agony. ,Ho' propped the man up, put his clerical _coat round him and escorted him to a surgery. The man recovered, hut tho canon himself died of pneumonia.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2142, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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325GENERAL CABLEGRAMS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2142, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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