GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

int ■mraiui'H'-riißM *Bsoei/i«oS'^onßionT4 :■■'.' ~— ", —r»"~ "~—- ■'■■'> PROPORTIONAL RTSPRESENTATION '.IN ■ TRANSVAAL. . .■ i : . ... Pretoria, Mas 31. General Smuts, Colonial Secretary, hat announced his intention to introdno© a Bill to " ■ ■■ provide fot proportional 'roprMMvration in ." ratiniolpalifclofl, ."BBALMNNIsi. ■'." .'. ,' " ' t , London, May SL At real tenuis Btono beat Wilson, S—3, i d-3, 6^o.'• . r^J ; JOHN FOSTER MASER COMING. ■■ Sydrtey, Juno 1. Mr. : John l<Wer Fraibr will leavG England cither this mouth or next, for a lecturing tour in Australasia. [John Foster Fraser, ' traveller, leetnror, author, arid lUioolftl Parliamentary correspom' deut for the "Standard," is known to the world ohicfljr for his graflhio pen-pictures of- foreign cbnntrifls, sUdh as "The Heal" Siberia," "Pictures from . ■ tho ■ Balkans," :\'.'Hod Kussia," "Canada as it: is,"'eta. As a round-tho-World cyolißt, he covorod r lingo distance in a lonj timo; but he failed twice to enter the House of Commons on the' Unionist ticket.) .'. THE PLAUUE. '.'"■'.■'•"•" ; ' : .'■'"''Sydney", Juno 1..--'; A olorii in tho' fruit exchange hßs been found to ho suffering from plague.-. '•JS MELBA IK'SYDNEY,,' /''.V ''" Qviiitey. Juno 1. ; Madame Mclba'a ofloniiiK ' u'liwrl Vlio a aplondid buoccbSi There was a orowdo.l / house, ■•■.-■ ■.'•.,'■■•■'•' . ' . NEW ZEALAND LEAOUE FOOTDAIA - TEAM. - '• .• . • •. i' .-. ■■ Sydney, Jure 1. " Tho All Blacks', (fi'ascr's 'Nfw Zealand team, Northern Union'rules) arrive.'; it: good condition, and were publicly wokcni-vl in tho Town Hall this afternoon, Mi. 25. W. O'Sullivan (president of tlio, Rugby League) presiding at' a large gathering,.. MURDER OF A STATION GOVERNESS, ■ Brisbane, Juuol. Tho jury found tho aboriginal Billy Vik son not guilty of tho murder of Mi&s Duffy at Carpentaria Downs Station. [Last Soptembor'Miss Daffy was fowid dead in bod ot tho Carpentaria Downs Station, Willi hot throat"cut.'...Mrs. Wilson, wife of tin manager o£ the station, .was arrested u:id, charged with the murder. The aboriginal Hilly Wilson eato evidence that ho held Miss Duffy In hod while Mis. Wilson stabbed hcrj ha said he aoted in this way out of fear of aceussd and her husband, Tho aboriginal was then alio charged with murder, and subsequently told another story, to the cifoot that Aldwju Wilson, stepson of Mrs. Wilson, and not Mrs. Wiison herself, murdorod Miss Duffy.. At tha March sittinfts of tho Court tho Jury that tried Billy Wilson disagreed. At the eauin sittings tho Crown entered a nolle pp. -<}«i In tho afiargQ of murder against Mrs. Witsoa, tho etatien manager's wife.]