GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BY TSLECIIAPH— PREBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. * —-—; ■- AN AUSTRALIAN'SINGER. | (Reo. Juno 7. 4.15 p.m.) : Paris, Juno 6. The French Government has appointed Lalla Miranda, an Australian singer, an officer of the Academy/'' ' , OAPE PREMIER ON LABOUR LA^VS. -'Capetown; Juno 5. The Premier of Cape Colony,' Mr. ilerriman, in reply to a deputation asking for labour legislation, remarked that they , represented only a section—tho aristocracy of labour ; the bulk of the . workers of South Africa were not represented there. He was not in favour of labour legislation on tho Australasian model. . AGAINST WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. . London, June 5. A Woman's Anti-Suffrage league Association has been formed, and is arranging an energotic campaign. Mrs. Humphry Ward, tho novelist," is a prominent supporter of tho new league. SCULLING. -Sydney, June 6; George Towns,'ex-sculling, champion, will leave for London noxfc week to race Barry. LOSS O? THE ORION. ; Hobart, Juno 6. With regard to tho loss of" the steamer Oriort, with; a complement of twenty-two, between Tasmania and Victoria, further search has rovealod more wreckage. A theory has beon set up that the steamer was run down in tho Straits by some sailing vessel. A woman living on Flinders Island states that on the night tho vessel was supposed to have been lost she saw rockets for about ten minutes. Tho night was a fearful one. . INDIAN COOLIES FOR FIJI. ' Suva, June 6. Tho Sangola, with 1084 coolies, has a.rived here. >