GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxxii, Issue 8375, 23 May 1911, Page 1

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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LONDON, May 22. The "Times" will publish on Wednesday -a remarkable supplement dealing with the resources, industries, administration, daily life, sports, political problems, progress and prospects of India and the oversea Dominions.

BERLIN, May 21

The Prussian Diet, by 156 to 155, has passed a Bill regarding optional cremation in Prussia.

. ST. PETERSBURG, May 21. Twenty-nine convicts, who were put on board a train at Perm for Siberia, wounded their warders and eleven escaped.

The Duma has voted £80,000,000 for an immediate programme of four Dreadnoughts and six submarines in the Black Sea, and- four Dreadnoughts in the Baltic, besides four which will be launched in July. PARIS. May 21. The Hon. Joseph Chamberlain is returning home in-improved health..

SYDNEY, May 22. In connection with the Government's scheme for the , erection of workmen's homes, Mr Oarmichael cabled to Mr Edison for information regarding the cost of a concrete house plant. As an outcome of the recent Roman Catholic Education Conference, Catholics will start a movement to be known as "Australia Day," as a counterdemonstration to Empire Day. Saturday's League football was characterised by roughness. Four playere were ordered off in the senior matches.

'The steamer Prinz Waldemar, from Japan, has arrived and been quarantined, a Malay sailor having contracted smallpox after leaving Hongkong. He was landed at Wilhelmshaven. •

"The Government has closed with Mr Samuel McOaughey for the purchase of 70,000 acres of. the Yanco estate at 70s per acre, Mr McCaughey retaining a life-interest in portion of the estate, including the-homestead. , PERTH, May 22. The failure in the winding gear in the Gwalia mine, Leonora, West Australia, caused a.skip, with two men, to fall to the bottom of a 2000 feet shaft. The cable parted and fell on top of Frank Rooney, an assistant surveyor, who was killed. . Adams, the mine surveyor, is not expected to recover. Six miners were seriously injured. Harry Angwin, shift boss, and Williams, a miner, were working in the Eclipse mine at Kalgoorlie, when fifty tons of earth fell en them and kill-ed them.

The final referenda figures for Western Australia give the "Yes" majority for legislative powers at 5847, and for monopolies 7017. .