CABLE NEWS

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 5

CABLE NEWS

♦ : Press Assn — By telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. Latham, an Englishman, aeroplan--ed for 67 minutes from Antinette by monoplane to Maine, beating the French record. BERLIN, last night. The British Public! Miners' Con.gress at Berlin resolved, whenever a general strike of miners , in neighboring countries occurred, to stop work for tho time being. The Congress also resolved to demand a fortnight's annual holiday. ■ , '' ST. PETERSBURG, last night. Misgivings have been aroused in Petersburg that the Kaiser's visit will bo modified by the inspired statements from Berlin declaring that Germany bad ho reason to expect any change. in the grouping of the Powers. y, LONDON,' last night. The Deakin Cabinet's decision to present a Dreadnought, or the equivalent, has been published, also its agreement with the principle of com- ; pulsory military service, with comments to connect it with Lord Rosebery's message regardingthe pressure being put upon this "little England." ST. PETERSBURG, last night. Madame Lapukhin shares "her hus-r .'band's life in exile. . '. PARIS, last night. Obituary : M. Chauchord, owner of tb.e famous Magasins do Louvre. Deceased had an annual income of £200,000' sterling, and left a million sterling and his . pictures to the Louvre, including. v J\tiiiet's Angelus and twenty-five. Corals. . - BRISBANE, yesterday. Ross was executed to-day for the murder of Miss .Muir at Gayndah Bank on October, 18th. , Death was instantaneous. ■; Up to the present, tlie campaign against rabbits, has cost the State £1,200,000, of which £696,000 ' is found by the Government. SYDNEY, last night. The Labor delegates and Home Constituency decided not to. nominate any •candidate to .oppose, Sir Wm. Lyne at the . Federal . electiqns. Tho bishops have,, confirmed the -election of Bishop .Wright.