GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

TSAR TO VISIT GERMANY. (Roe. May 27, 0.35 a.m.) St. Potcrsburg, May 26. The Tsar and the Tsaritsa will visit Germany towards the end of the summer. COPYRIGHT CONFERENCE. London, May 26. The Higl'. Commissioner for Now Zealand, Mr. Hall-Jones, attended tho Copyright Conference and discussed the general outlines of a draft Bill capablo of adoption in all the Dominions. Tho conference was adjourned for a fortnight. FOR AIR OR EARTH-A NEW AEROPLANE. - Berlin, May 26. Tho now Grawert aeroplane, a. distinctive feature of which is the means to propel it along the ground on thoroughfares, has bean satisfactorily tested between German camps. FLOATING DOCK SINKS. New York, May 25. The floating dry-dock Dewey was sunk in Manila in seventy foet of water, owing to tho failure of the valves. POPE PIUS AND COLONIAL SCHOOLS. Rome, May 25. Pope- Pius X gave an audience to Sir Joseph' Barrett, of Brisbane, and Mr. Bouaventura Duggan, of.'Kalgoorlio. _ His Holiness expressed his satisfaction with the rapid development of Schools and colleges in Australia and Now Zealand, making reference! to tho good work done by the Christian Brothers of Irish nationality. EXECUTED. London, May 25. Jesshopo, who murdered Hoaley, a stage carpenter, has been executed. [Jesshopo, a former employee of Hid Empire Theatre, Cambenrell, stabbed Healey to death after a performance at the theatre on the night of March 28. The defence was that the crime was tho consequence of hereditary epilepsy.] COMMONWEALTH DESTROYERS. I Melbourne, May 26. Naval Commandant F. Tickell, who commanded tho Victorian naval continent to China in 1900-oi, will go to England to bring out tho Common--wealth destroyers. A PAINTING AT PITTSBURG. New York, May 25. Lovers painting "Port of St. Ives" has beon hung,-on tho line at the Carliogie Institute's International Exhibition of pictures at Pittsburg. SIR GEORGE REID AS HOST. London, May 25. Sir George Reid (Australian High Commissioner) and Lady Reid ivill hold a reception at tho Hotel Ritz on May 30,- to meet Mr. aud Mrs. Roosevelt. ' DEATH SENTENCES ON BLACKS COMMUTED. Perth, May 26. llio death sentences passed at Broomo on six abongirmls on April 8, for the murder of a pearler named Jones have boon commuted to ponal servitude for life.