MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14051, 24 May 1911, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press Association —By Klectrio Telegraph—Copyright. Lord Curzon hns been elected President of the Royal Geographical Society. Lord Curzon will open the Conference of Surveyors-General on May 81st. The Yemen rebels captured a fortified post at Shaar, and took 150 prisoners after a six months' siego. In the second round of tho Surrey Lawn Tennis Championship Wilding boat It. Pockley 6-1, 6-3. Owing to trade depression, the Ebbw Vale Steelworks and Coke Ovens, employing 8500 men, will bo indefinitely closed on May 31st. Sir Algernon West's appeal against tho judgment for his daughter-in-law in the recent slander case is ingPrincess Dhulecp Singh has been fined £1 for refusing to pay a dog license as a protest on behalf of the Suffragettes. Mr Carnegie will have to give evidence before the Commission investigating tho transactions of the Steel Trust. j A Brisbane cablo states that a search steamer thoroughly patrolled tho Barrier Reef, from the Nares Rock to Steam Lane, but found no trace of the Yongala. The German potash syndicate and American buyers have signed a settlement to a long-standing dispute which arose out of the Customs oharges on the export of potash. Tho New South Wales Government have received a cablegram from Mr Thomas Edison stating that his moulded house invention has not quite reached tho commercial stage. The steamer Prinz Waldemar. which j arrived at Sydney from the East ou j Saturday with a case of smallpox I aboard, will be released from quaran- I tino to-day. j At a Conference of the Railway ! Clerks' Associations in London, a re- ! solution deprecating the practice of j Labour M.P.'s charging fees for speak- ' ing at meetings in the provinces, was ' defeated. A blasting accident occurred at the Rangiara Mine, near Ynss, and two named Wright and Edmunds, were killed. Another miner was seriously injured. They wore drilling, and struck a-neglected charge of dynesoite. After a prolonged discussion t"n© re* presentation of tho Battle of Chateauquay has been re-included in the j Canadian pageant at the Festival or j Empire. The representation was excluded because the prompters thought it might hurt the susceptibilities of the American, people.