GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 7

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

7' - Bj ■ ..■ THE NEW GOVERNOR. :,7- ' (Rec. April 24, 5 p.m.) London, April 23. ■ Mr. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New 'Zealand, will give a reoeption on May 4, to meet Sir John DicksonPoyndor, tho new Governor' of Now Zealand.

SIR GEORGE REID. (Bee. April 24, 5 p.m.)

1 „ ■ Loraton, April 23. Sir George. Reid will visit the Birmingham small. arms factory on Moni?li."m w the principal guest oi the Chamber of Commerce at a banquet in the evening. THE "STANDARD." ' ' (Bee. April 24, 5 pun.) i „ _ ■ ■ , London, April 23. Mr. 0. A. Pearsonhas Bold a controlling interest in the "Standard" and "Evening Standard" to Mr. Davidson Dalziel, M.P, The policy of the papers will not bo changed. '• Mr. Pearson's eye816JJ M_catising serious anxiety. ti. Uk .P™ n is chief proprietor of the Daily Express" and soveral provincial newspapers, as well as of popular magazines and periodicals.] ■ TEE IMPERIAL PIONEERS. e ■ , London, April 22. Socialists and others broke up another ShoreditcL. >noars '" meeting at [The "Imperial Pioneers," who- have been giving addresses on. Imperial preference, -are self-appointed 'representatives of Canada, Australia, and South Africa.] ' A NEW DREDGE. . , , London, April 22. A new dredge for South Australia was launched at .Schiedam. Mrs. Kirk-1 Patrick, • wife of t-ho South Australian Agent-General, performed the christening ceremony. The boat is called "Adelaide. . ESTATE VALUED II £16.000,000. New York, April 22. I Hw fortune of the late Marshall Field has been definitely 'appraised at sixteen million pounds sterling. REDUCTION IN PRICE OF BUTTER. (Boa April 25, 0.35 a.m.) ™ Sydney, April 24. xne butter merchants have decided to reduce the price of butter to-morrow by two drillings per cwt. * OBHUABS. (Bee. April 25, 0.35 ajn^ m. j„ . Sydney, April 24. Ine death is announced of Mr. Larke Canadian Commissioner. 1 INSURANCE AMALGAMATION. m, . Sydney, April 23. The amalgamation of the Australian Widows Fund Life Assurance Society with the Mutual Life and Citizens' Company has been arranged. THE PERICLES WRECK. T , ~ . , Perth, April 23. Lloyd's surveyor has returned from the soone of the Pericles disaster without finding the wreck. The fittings and forepart .of the vessel have come ashore at Cape Leeuwin. It is surmised that the afterpart is intact. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Cape Town, April 22. The Cape Government is purchasing the Imperial Government's military camp at Middleburg, on the railway to Kimberley, with the, object of establishing an Agricultural College thero.