GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 142, 11 March 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

SALE OP A PRINCESS'S WARDROBE. Paris, March 5. There were amazing features at the ?ale of tho late Princess LobnnoiPs wardrobe. She had collected a prodigious number of garments, including three hundred during fifty years. Many were unopened and unworn, and would have been sold, at any price but for the war. As much as J6200 was paid for sets of a dozen undergarments, and parcels of five sheets sold for .£IOO -Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assri. OFFER TO BUILD FEDERAL CAPITAL. Melbourne, March 10. Tho Federal Capital League has offered the Government, in return for the use of certain land in Canberra, to build tho capital at a cost of three millions and give it to tho nation free of cost.— Press Assn. BIG .COMMONWEALTH. LOAN. Melbourne, March 10. It is unofficially stated that Mr. W. A. Watt. Federal Treasurer, will probably ncgotiato a Commonwealth loan of .£20,000,000 while in England.—Press Assn. CANDIDATES' ENDORSEMENT CANCELLED. Sydney, March 10. Tho Labour Party has cancelled the endorsement of two candidates in thß city who signed the Labour _ Council pledge to release the I.W.W. prisonersPress Assn. MARKETING OF BUTTER AND CHEESE. Melbourne, March 10. A conference of representatives of the dairying industry in all States has passed a resolution in favpur of a return to pre-war conditions in the marketing of butter and cheese.—Press Assn. NORTHERN UNION FOOTBALLERS' TOUR. (Rec. March 10, 7.35 p.m.) London, March 8. ' Tho Northern Union footballers will sail by the Naldora— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Af-sil. AMERICAN CONSULATE AT ZURICH BOMBED.. (Rec. March 10, 8.50 p.m.) Berne, March 5. The American consulate in Zurich was wrecked by a bomb. There were no fatalities. The theory is that the outrage was due to resentment at America's attitude towards the League of Nations.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STAY OF ACTTON TN MERTON V. HUGHES. (Rec. March 10, 8.50 p.m.) London, March 9. Tho King's Bench has approved <>f the agreement to a stay of action in the case of Morton and Co. v. Hughes, which was mutually arrived at—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

[The firm of Morton and Co. took fiction against Mr. Hughes' (Federal Pr'me Minister) for alleged libel and slander, arising out of a speech the bitter made on the German innW.cc over (he metal market.] JEWISH COLONY SACKED BY BEDOUINS. (Kcc. March 10, 10.25 p.m.) Jaffa, March 8. Bedouins sacked a Jewish agricultural colonv at: Mettulah. pn the Jordan, near Tiberius, and killed six colonists, wounded ten, and burned the village—Aus.N7i. Cable Assn. AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY SCHEME. (Ecc. March 10, 10.25 p.m.) Sydney, March 10. The North Australian Land Development League proposes to raise a publicity fund of ,£IO,OOO in connection with the .-610,000,000 railway scheme from Meekatharra to Powell's Creek. Northern Territory, a distance of 1787 miies. The proiect is nracticnlly identical with Lord Kitchener's scheme of ten years ago, and would not onlv be an aid in defence, hut own un pashirare for twenty million sheep.—Press As«n.

PRICE OF inrpiv.T«r i\-ruE.\SF.D. (Rec. March 10, 10.25 p.m.) Sydney, March 10. '['lie Commodities • Commission has granted the Vacuum Oil Company's application to increase the oricc of kerosene 2s. per case.—Press Assn. WORLD'S SWIMMTNO RECORD. (Rec. March 10, 10.25 p.m.) Brisbane, March 10. Miss Venning won the ladies' 100 yards breast stroke swimming championship of Queensland in lmin. 27 l-osec.-a worlds record.—Press Assn.