GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.

. ... IN banishment. 1 (Rec. January, 31, 1 a.m.) St. Petersburg, January 30. M. Lopukhin, ex-Director of tho Police Department, who was banished to Siberia on June 7, 1909 for betraying a police fiy, has been permitted 'to reside at rasnoyarsk, a. town in Eastern Siberia.

CONGRESS OP ORIENTALISTS. (Rec. January 30, 9.15 p.m.) , Athens, January 30. Tho International Congress. .of. Orientalists will open, on April 7, 1912. " FOREIGN SHOPPING WEEK. London, January 29. It is reported that foreign firms are organising a "foreign shopping week" in London, to be held immediately after the All-British week. FIGHTING IN SOUTH AMERICA. London, .January 29, Router's Agency states that the Ecuador-Pern frontier dispute lias culminated in open hostilities at . several points of tho frontier. CHILDREN AT THE THEATRE. London, January 29. The Playgoers' Club entertained thousands of the poorest children, in- London at the Pantomimes. WHOLESALE PILLAGE. '. Paris, January 29. The pillage from wagons in the Vaugirord Station, Paris, of bales o£ cotton and farm produce amounts to .£40,000 sterling annually. Tho wagons were insufficiently guarded. DIPLOMATIC PROMOTION. Berlin, January 29. Count von Rer, Germ mi Minister at Peking, has been appointed Ambassador at .Tokio. ; THE PLAGUE. Vienna ■January 29. The State Sero-Therapeutic Institute is sending 10,000 phials of plague serum to China. NEW CANADIAN COALFIELDS. Ottawa, January.29. Drilling proves the existence of vast coalfields at Saturna and Tumbo Islands, West of British Columbia. BATTLESHIPS DAMAGED. Gibraltar, January 29. The battleship Implacable has abandoned taking part in the naval manoeuvres, owing to a defect in her steering gear.

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