GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2272, 5 October 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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RUSSO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION. TREATY. (Reo. October 4, 10 a.m.) Washington, October 2. The Governments of Russia and America have signed an arbitration treaty re-establishing the treaty relation which had been broken off by Mr. Taf t when President. ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CRITICALLY ILL. Rome, October 2. Marquis di San Giuliano, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is ill. His condition is critical. FEDERAL SENATE ELECTIONS. Sydney, Ootober 3. The declaration of the Senate poll in Now South Wales shows that Messrs. Gardiner, M'Dougall, Grant, and Watson (Labour), Gould and Millen (Liberals) have been elected. APOSTOLIC DELEGATION TO AUSTRALASIA. Rome, October 2. The Pope has given an audience to Monsignor Ceretti, the' Apostolio '-Delegate to Australasia.

Whon Monsignor Bonaventura. Ceretti's appointment was first announced, the Rome correspondent of the London "Observcr"_ stated that Monsignor Ceretti's appointment to Australasia had caused surprise in tCathofic circles in the Eternal City. It was understood that the late Cardinal Monan had impressed upon Pius X the necessity for decentralising the Church in the most distant colonies, and had suggested a Primato for Australia, who should also 1)6 Papal Legate, The Pope decided instead that an Apostolic Delegate should be the connecting link. RAIN IN SYDNEY. Sydney, October 8. There were showers of rain last night. Though tho weather is dull there "are indications of it clearing.