GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

LOED PLUNKET .HONOURED.''. ■'.' .(Roc. September 5, 11.5 p.m.) . " '> London,.September 5. King George has invested Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.0., lately Governor of New 'Zealand, with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. ' The Order of St. Michaol,. and St. George .is divided into three classes;— First, the Knights' Grand Cross, of whom the number'is fixed at 100; second, the Knights Commanders, 300; and, third,' the Companions, 600. . NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS. '.Sydney, : September '5. .• Mr.' M'Gowen, Leader of the State Labour party, .predicts that. Labour will win' fifty-seven seats at the coming elections. * The Premier,. Mr. Wade, speaking at the. opening of a miniature, rifle range, said ho favoured compulsory military service. ■*• ."' SKIN-GRAFTING OPERATION. London, September ft . Douglas Bocklington, the seve'n-yeaT-old 60U of a Cardiff . tradesman, was scalded while playing with a boiler.'. His young sisters,. Madgo and Dorothy, allowed skin to be taken from both their thighs, and this was grafted "on-to. their brother's arm, which was/ thus saved..

■].■' KING GEORGE'S ACCESSION, : .' .Berlin, September 5. Lord Roberts has arrived to convey the official announcement to the German Court of the succession of King George to tho throne, Ho.was heartily wolconied by the Kaiser. / - ; PASSING. ON THE TAX. r London, September 4. At many hotels the bills inolude a pharge of sixpence extra nightly towards the payment of the increased license fee. ' , .•■•,..-.■'■' MOTOR MORTALITY. •'-..'';•'' London, September 4. In London yesterday, motor -buses'and taxi-cabs ran over and killed five persons. ■' ■'.'"■'. . ; NEW ZEALAND'S. GUESTS. .... London, September i. ;The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir William Hall-Jones, 'entertained 250 sanitary inspectors at the-Anglo-Japanese Exhibition. The New Zealand Court was inspected. THE, FUTILITY' OF "CRAMMING." - ; London, September 4. Sir George Reid's speech before tho British Association on "cramming" has furnished the text for numerous leading articles in the papers.' The consensus of opinion is that the speech was original and sprightly," serving as a useful reminder. of the : futility of "cramming.'' THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS : r Copenhagen, September' 4, The International Socialist Congress at Copenhagen.'has. decided that tbV next meeting shall; take place at Vienna in 1913, ; . A BIBLIOMANIAC. Rome, September 4. . Professor- Zaniboni has been arrested atNaples on a charge of stealing from tho National Library 200 Tare books, which he is alleged to have sold abroad. KILLED ON THE RAILWAY, ■ . Romo, September i. Signer Benedetto Grifone, a Neapolitan painter, and three companions, were driving over a railway crossing when an express train ran into theni. The four were killed. AN ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE. . Vienna, September 4.Eugene Hasselik, .an eccentrio Budapest millionaire, left J3800.000 to found an asylum for middle-class persons'who are destitute through no fault of-'their, own. ■Ho disinherited his only sister and other relatives. ABYSSINIA'S RULER.

Adis Ab'eba, September 5, Tho Emperor Mcnelik, whoso health has been bad for somo time past, has had a further apoplectic seizure, and his condition is serious. SMALLPOX SUSPECT. Adelaide, September 5. The steamer Knzembe, from Singapore, has been ordered into quarantine, owing to there being a suspected case of smallpox aboard. WRECK OP THE HELGA. Brisbane. September 5. The Makura has landed a portion of tho crew of the barquontine Helga, recently w'recked at Honolulu. The men say they had a trying time in keeping tho water down, aud claim that if assistunco' had, been promptly sent when tho vessel anchored off Honolulu the Helga would have been saved.