GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Asscdation-CopjrSsM.

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. (Rec. January, 10,-10. p.m.) Vienna, January 16, The Emperor Francis Joseph received ail ovation on. driving from tho royal palace of Schoenbrunn to tho Hofburg for the first time since his illness. NIGERIAN TINFIELDS. London, January 15.' The Government is arranging for tho construction of a. railway to connect the Nigerian tinfielcls of Bauchi with the Baro-Kano trunk line. FRENCH TRAIN COLLISION. Paris, January. 16. A passenger train collided, with a ballast train at Vira in tho Department of Calvados. The two drivers and a stoker wero killed and' several persons were intwo of them being in a dangerous condition. ' PRINCE LEOPOLD OF BATTEN- ! BURG. , Sydney, January 16. Prince Leopold of Battenburg, First' Consort of King George, who is visiting Australia for the benefit of his health, has arriv-ed in Sydney and is the guest of the Governor. ' ■ A STORMY DEBATE. Perth, January 16. During a stormy, debate in the Legislative Assembly on tho Redistribution of Seats Bill, six members were suspended on different occasions for disobeying the Chair. THE KING OF JAXONT. Berlin, January 15. . The King of Saxony starts for the Soudan on January 29. Ho will study the industries' of Alexandria and Cairo. A GAINSBOROUGH PORTRAIT. Berlin, January 15. Professor Heinmann discovered in the. Ducal Palaco at Lndwigslust, Mecklen-berg-Schwerin, a fine Gainsborough portrait of Queen Charlotte, dated 17l ! 5. •• KING ALFONSO IN AFRICA. Madrid, January 15. King Alfonso.of Spain, on tho return journey from Morocco, visited tho gorges which wero tho scene of several sanguinary bottles between the Spaniards and the Riff tribesmen. SPANISH REVENUE. Madrid, January 15. The Spanish revenue for 1910 shows an incrcaso of 105 million pesetas. BELGIAN MINERS' STRIKE.Brussels, January 15. Tho minors' striko at Liege has ended. Tho owners granted many of tlio men's demands. SUPPOSED TRAIN BOBBERS. New York, January 15. Four men have, been arrested at Ogden, Utah. They ai'b believed to bo tho men who held up tho Southern. Pacific express on January 1, and wounded a negro porter. ' CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY. Calcutta, January 15. At Abbottabad, in the district of Hasara, Punjab, the German Crown Prince witnessed a mimic display of hill warfare. He afterwards entrained for Delhi