GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 485, 19 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(iin'Er,EGitAra—Mess ussooiatioi*— coryriionT.) « : THE ALL RED lIOTJTE. (Roc. April 17, ,4.30 .p.m.) London, April 17. Tho Colonial OJiice has h6 information 'a3 to tho "lted Route Conference," referred to in a Melbourne caWegiani, which has been published, announcing that tho Commonwealth is appointing n representative. Melbburn'e, April 18. • If an All Red route conference 'is hold, the Federal Government will probably ask someone in London,to represent them. AZEFF AND LOPUKHIN. St. Petersburg, April 16. .The 'trial for treason of M. Lopukhin (formerly chief of tlie Russian Secret Police, how charged with having betrayed Azeff to the latter's dupes, tlio revolutionaries), is being held in camera before ton judges. SOUTH ITALIAN VOLCANOES ACTIVE. Romo, April 16. , Mount Etna, hi Sicily, is ill a state of 'eruption. Hugo flames arid dense showers of ashes arc issuing from the orator. Stroinboli is also increasingly active.

•DINI2ULU. London, April 16. Tho Earl of Crowe, Secretary of State Mr tho Colonies, in a dispatch accepting tho ■\erdict in the Dinizulu case, says he assumes that provision has been mode for Diiiizulu's lnaintonanco after his sentence has been served. GERMAN AERONAUTICS. Berlin, April 16. Tho National Zeppelin Fund for Aeronautics has renclied £804,827. BOMBS IN INDIA. Calcutta, April 16. Another. live bomb lias been discovered 'oil tho Aquapara railway in Bengal. CHARGED WITH FR'AUD. London, April 16. Duncan M'lntyie Johnson, charged at tho Bow Stieet Police' Court with defrauding the firm of Yoimghusband and Co., of Melbourne, has been ordered by tho magistrate to bo sent back to Melbourne. WRESTLING MATCH. Melbourno, April 17. News has been received here that in a Wrestling match at 'NW York, tho American, F. Gotcli (who is to wrostlo Hackenschmidt nt ifclbourne for tho woild's championship), defeated Mahmout. u, PLAGUE RODENTS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS. . ~ Sydney, April 17, A shipment of fifty dogs lias been sent to tho Solomon Islands, where tho settlers aro troubled with plnguo rats and mice. Other consignments will follow. A lIEROIXE HONOURED. Melbourno, April 17, Tho Royal Humane Society, has awardod a Rold medal to Mrs. wife bf a railway lino repairer, for conspicuous bravery in snatching a child from almost under tho wheels of an engine, . This ,/is the first tiino tho society has awarded a gold medal to a woman.