O ENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 951, 19 October 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Uopjrlehl. 4

- NEW EOCKEFELLER GIFT. New York, October 18. , Mr. J. -D. Rockefeller is giving £700,000 for a new hospital in connection with the Rockefeller Institute. N.OVA SCOTIA'S GOVERNOR. Ottawa, October 18. Senator W. H." Ray has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in succession to-the lato-Mr. Duncan Cameron Fraser.' ' i TREATMENT OF TYPHOID. ' London, October 17. Recent statistics show that inoculation had effected a .reduction of 66 per cent, in typhoid cases in the army. v A PINE SALVAGE PEAT. / London, October 17. The Atlantic Transport. Company's linor Minnehaha, 13,433"t0h5,' which ran on the rocks at the Scilly Isles in April last, has been repaired and will resume service. THE BRITISH TERRITORIALS. ' London,' October 17. Ihe enlistment for tho Territorial Army shows a serious falling-off, chiefly duo to the small employers refusing to grant time to their employees to attend parades.

BRITISH LABOUR EXCHANGES. .London, October 17. The labour exchanges established by tho Act passed last year filled 45,314 vacancies during September.

MONEY-LENDERS AND THE LAW. ' London, October 17. , i Mr. Justice Darling, in -the course of a money-lending case in the High Court of Justice, said it'was time the Legislature enacted a law to oompel money-lenders to use their own names instead of business aliases. J HANDLING" OF PRODUCE. I , , London, October 17. Sir George Reid, Australian High. il Commissioner, visited the Manchester ; Docks, aaid examined with interest the methods of handling, refrigeration, and storage of Australian ponsh&blo produce. ' BIG FIND OF DYNAMITE. Vancouver, October 17. The discovery of five hundred pounds of dynamite hidden in an untenanted houso in, the south of San Francisco has set the police on. the alert. The explosive was addressed "J. B. Bryson." N.S.W. BANK- AVERAGES. Sydney, October 18. The banking averages for the State , for the paot quarter show a decrease of £576,000 in deposits, but an increase of £1,722,000 in advances. . . ■ ' VICTORIAN RAILWAYS. Melbourne, October 18. An engine skidded at Wonthasrgo (?) station, and bumped into the' carriages with, considerable force. The passengers were knocked about, and two ladies were injured. OLD MAN MURDERED. Brisbane, October 18. An old man'named Ned Lomax has been found/murdered in his tent at Sapphiro Town. No motive for the crimo has been discovered. LAND TAX PROTEST.' ' - Hobart, October 18. Petitions bearing two thousand signatures have been forwarded to the Act-ing-Prime Minister of the Commonwealth as a first batch, protesting I against the proposed Federal land tax. EARTHQUAKES IN AUSTRALIA. , Perth, October 18. i Tno oarthquake shocks occurred at Marble Bar, tho chief town of tho Pilbarra goldfields, on Saturday. They wore- accompanied by a Uumdorons noise. Tho only damage done was to crockery. • SYDNEY COUPON CASE. Sydney, Optober 18. Albert Flynn and Eaton Hume wore ncqmttcd, by direction of tlio Judge, on the charge of forging and littering coupons, and thus defrauding the Co-opera-1 ti\o Coupon Company. Ltd.