GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2307, 14 November 1914, Page 10

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Presa Association—Oopyricht

SOLOMON ISLAND RAIDERS. (Rec. November 14, 0.20 a.m. Sydney], November 13. The Methodise Foreign Mission Board has received information from Choiseul Island, in the Solomons, that a native raiding party has gone inland on a tour of pillage and nnirder. The chief declared that he i intended to kill a hundred people, ami tlio total has already reached forty. A party is pursuing the raiders. DYNAjViITARDS IN NEW YORK. New York, November .12. Anarchists exploded a homb outside the. new Courthouse in the Bronx district of the city, completely wrecking the facadc of, the building. Detectives found evidence that the object of the. anarchists was to assassinate. County judge Gibbs, who recently passed heavy sentences on numbers of white slavers. . Judge Gibbs had previously reoeived an anonymous letter, warning him that lie would die as did King Humbert of Italy. Three girls were slightly injured by the explosion, and houses in the neighbourhood were damaged. ■■ LORD; ISLINGTON'S NEW POST. • , Londdn, November 12.

Lord Islington has been appointed Chairman of the Imperial Advisory Committee, in place of Lord Emmott. 1

A NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER. London,' November 12. The .Hon. W. P. Schrejner, exPremier of Cape: Colony, has been ap--pointed High Commissioner in London for the Union of South Africa. . FRENCH STEAMER FOUNDERS. London, November 12. The. French .steamer Duchesso de Guiche, 822 tons,-.foundered in Havre Roads during a gale. Eleven were drowned. WEST AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. Perth,-November 13. ■ The final election returns show that the Ministerial Party has twenty-sis seats, and the Opposition twenty-four. TRAGEDY AT ST. KILDA. Melbourne, November 13. A tragedy has occurred at St. Kiida. William Whit-o shot and dangerously wounded Agnes Stephens, and then committed suicide. The tragedy was ; the outcome of a broken engagement,' ' ENGLISH CRICKET CHAMPIONSHIP.

London, November 12.' The Marylebone Club has awarded the county championship to Surrey, though two matches were unplayed owing to the war.

LEAGUE FOOTBALL fOTJR. (Rec. November 13,' 8.20 p.m.) London, November 12. The Northern Union League Committee has decided that it will be impossible to invite a New South ' ; 'Wales League football team to tour Britain in 1915-16. ' CRICKET FIXTURES ABANDONED London, November 12. : Owing to the war the county cricket .fixtures for 1910 have been postponed sine die. PACIFIC CABLE BOARD. . London, November 11. The Pacific Cable Board's report shows a deficit of £19,950, or £12,31? less than in 1912. Tha board is urgently seeking a special line to Sydney and Melbourne. t