GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tclterajh—l-res3 Asscciation-Copvr!»it« ; * ■: *:■ :! ; THE PLAGUE- * ; ■ -• (Rec. February 12,.;5.5 "p.m.) i j St. Petersburg, February-12. . ... ThQ "Bourse ..Gazette" - declares • • that ; i pulmonary and other forms of plague have ! ■■ occurred at twentv-two places ln' . -1 han, seTeral being fatal. , , - j . , _ EELMSED ' ! »11. ;vj •..Louis Eoss,- who has: been, senjng fivfl ' : years on a .charge of committing, a post " - i office robbery in Dublin, has been re- "j leased,, as the orders supposed to hara • -• been stolen have been found. - = j SMUGGLING > OPIUM ~ \ ' Brisbane,. Februarv 11. ■ | ■■"-The .amended.; Customs Act ; providing ! -. for ..imprisonment instead of ,a -fine'for'^'---3 smuggling opium; is operating on -Thurs- " J day . Island; where a Chinese was senteno- j ed to sis months' imprisonment for ; an offence. . ■ . I .. ' A SCHOOL" FOE OFFICERS- -< 1 ■ . ■ '] . Melbourne, February 11. . : d •• "A .special school for candidates, desir- . -'J ons -of receiving -instruction as officers : will bo opened at Portsea, 37 miles ■ by . • water from Melbourne, on March 1. ' A ! CORONATION.COACH BURNED. 1 ; London, February 10. One of the King's coaches which .it . wai intended to use in the Coronation procession was burned in a fire at a carriage factory in Nottingham;.-The coach was 200 yeirs old. , ' GOLD REEF DISCOVERED. . ' - :. ; Adelaide, -February 11. A small reef has .been discovered at. Pino It is estimated to canry a thousand ounces of gold to.the.ton.' * LAND TAX RETURNS. •i> ■ ■ > Melbourne,' February 11. •The Federal Land Tax Commissioner : • declares that -no extension 'of time: will be.granted for making land tax returns. I . MARRY OE BE TAXED., -" I; New York, February .10.-| The-town ,of Ellensburg, in the' State -"'I of Washington, has decided : to; ; tax' /jj bachelors and spinsrets oyer 27 years• old. - v , A GOLD MINING COMPANY.'' I , i. London, February 10. • .».{ The Western Australia- United Gold- . j fields Company has been, registered. The v-.j capital is .£750,000, and the object of the_ : vj company is to accnire,' amongst t'other ; ! properties, several Bullfinch claims;'- -^- ; THE KING AND THE NATION. ] . Londoni/February 10. - ! -•-'A'letter from. the .King 'to tho"nation ■ i will be issued a month;. .prior- .to;- the : -i Coronation. A facsimile of- the letter will '. ■) be sold for charity. " * - ' ; .. ; IMPERHL CONFERENCE. ": T 'i| ' . "(Rec. February 12, 5.5 p.m.) ' " j -y , ; London, February 11. ■ i ■ Mr. .Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State r ] for the Colonies, in reply to . 1 a corre-' j spondeht, .stated-that the Imperial Con- . ; ference itself would decido whether th« ■. Wi proceedings are to be public. : i OBITUARY,' •] .Vienna, February 11: • I .-.The .death is announced of -Albertl Rothschild. ' • J 1