GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 996, 10 December 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telecrash-Bresß Association-Uopyiisiu. ■ —» GOT OF A CHURCH. (Rec. December 10, 0.10 a.m.) London, December 9. The Roman Catholic Church' of St. John the Baptist lias been opened at Norwich. The Duke of Norfolk bore the cost, wnicli amounted to. a quarter of a. million. • JOURNALIST EXPELLED FROM EGYPT. Cairo, December 9. The Government has expelled M.Der■roja, a Frenchmau and director of the newspaper "Depecho Egyptienne" for an article reflecting on the Khedive. SYDNEY'S LORD MAYOR. • . ■ . Sydney, December 9. Mr. Allen Taylor has been re-elected Lord.Mayor of Sydney. ' ' . MEDICAL INSPECTION OF ' , CHILDREN. ; Sydney, December 9. The medical report on the inspection of school children, cabled yesterday, referred to the-Victorian and not to tho New South' Wales schools.' SPAIN AND MOROCCO. Madrid, December 9. . King Alfonso will visit Melilla, one of the Spanish Presidios in Morocco, early in January.' BOILERMAKERS' LOCK-OUT,' London, December 8. , The agreement between: the boilermakers and the employers has been signed at the Edinburgh Conference. It will be subject to a ballot. 3RITISH TRADE RETURNS. ' ■ London, December 8. The Board'of Trade returns for November were issued to-day, and show increases,' compared with November 1909,'0f £2,479,901 in imports, £3,575970 in exports of Home products; and £70G,71(J~: in exports of foreign and, colonial products. .' ■. .' , ■ ■ t '■•'.' LONDON MOTOR-BUSES; • ; • ■--■-_ ■_ December 8.The London General Omnibus "Company paid £32 per omnibus during, the j last nine months for petrol'tax, pre-r venting the- declaration of the ordinary dividend. "..-.'- - •■' ". ■ .. , '.- LADY STOUT. IN PROTEST, , ■. : , ■ ■-■ London, December'B. . K d 'ti. S &)sr 7 , bas , ■ written-a letter strongly protesting 'against the -attitude" of Lord Glasgow, in "opposition-to woman sunrage,- and eulogising its results "in New Zealand. ' ' ' * ■ : KRUPPS AND RUSSIA. . ■ ■ ■. Berlin, December 8. _ Tho Essen correspondent of the."Berlin Tageblatt"-.contradicts the-Russian reports that: the-Krupp firm'had arranged with tho, Russian■:. Government to establish, armour-plate - works' .at Mariupol, on'the Sea-of Azov. ■ ■ A LACE COLLECTION. . . London, December B.' Tho late , Sir William Abdy's eollec-: tion'of lace has been sold by auction for £9400.. It cost Sir William' Abdy £20,000. - ' - ■■ '.■■•. ; SIR A. GEIKIE'S SON. : ..■•'■■• London, December 8." . The only son of Sir Archibald Geikie, secretary of tho Royal Society, fell from the platform at Bayswater railway station, and was killed by a train. V i ~ ■■'•' CHOLERA. London, Decembei 8. Owing to the prevalenco of cholera at Madeira, steamers are avoiding makiug a call there. / A total, of 492 cases of cholera, at Madeira has now been reported with 148 deaths. : CIVIL SERVANT SUSPENDED. Melbourne, December 9. Mr. C. R. Anderson, the officer of the. Water Commission whose land transaction at Colruna is under investigation by. a commission, has been suspended. ■ ■ BUGGY ACCIDENT. ■ '..'•-.' Melbourne, December 9. A horse attached to a buggy/bolted, and derailed a Richmond train. Threo persons were injured,, the buggy was smashed, and the horse killed. EMPIRE SPORTS FESTIVAL. , '"." Sydney, December 8. A meeting of representatives of amateur sports bodies approvod- a'scheme to send a- team to an Empire Sports Festival. . " ... N.S.W. WHEAT CROPS. Sycinoy, December 8. Rust has set in among the- wheat crops in the Tomora district, reducing the yield by three bushels an acre. MOTTNT. LTBIiIi RETURN. ' Sydney, December 9. The Mount.Lyell returns from November 3 to 30, inclusive,' show that tho auantity treated , was 30.569 tons. The- ore- converters produced 674 tori 3 blister copper, containing 666 tons copper, 53,756 ounces silver, and 894 ouuees gold. " THE AUSTRALIAn"sQUADROnI Sydney, December 9. The warships Challenger and Prometheus have been recommissioned for another term on the Australian.Station. Their new crews have joined them. THE CUNARD MONSTER. London, December 9. '■ The contract for the monster Cunard steamer, details of which were cabled on November 18, has been given to Messis. Jolm Brown and Coy., of the Clydebank works. WHARF : LABOUR DISPUTE. . Molbourne, December 9. The "local';wharf labourers, following tho examplo of. Adelaide; have refused tc- unload th'fe sugar cargo ■ from the steamer' Gracchus. '