GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1062, 27 February 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By T«kgra3h-Pres3 Assoeiation-Copyrlsht.

; TRANSPARENT ENVELOPES. U;^-:

(Rec. Feb. 20, 55 pm) London, February 25 Tho Post Office, while not prohibiting transparent envelope* with internal addresses, mhmafes that they mil bo subject to delay over ordinary addressed letters oiung to the greater difficult) in deciphering them.

■■;'".'; A. PAINTER/,? '. ' y '■? %% |

. London, .February -'ffi.; : v;?: A. Southend painter; named HowardJ-jf Sterge, living in :a- : state of"destitution;^--' has inherited ,£16,0()0 by the. death of an Vi" uncle near Auckland:'''-.:-: \ -.-•' . ~-':v-i"^{'i

.CHOLER A AT -HONOLULU.

■■ : ' '.. ; :? v , : ..'- .' libnrlan,"February 25;-- , - Renter, reports two; cases .of choleraf, at Honolulu; •* ■ • ■.■■■': . . ' Vvy:-

THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL

;'-■:'■"; '-■'•'■'■■ London, February :25.- : : V;J / The Australian •Corouation! delegates>iJ will attend the unveiling of the Queen >:>; Victoria 'Memorial on May -16. ;> .r -:•-', t >i;

UNION OF CHURCHES. ■:'i-y^

■.'• -■' 7 : 'V'Ottawa,- February 25.'^ The proposal- to federate l fhe.Protestahif!' churches has been.favonrably received .ini;-; Toronto; .■. ■. '.'■■! rY : ':\'■ ■■.:- r :;::\\\':-;- : -ifl': '.•yii\

THE COLONIAL; OFFICE/ '■."': ■ London. Febmarv - 24. .-'J

-. .•:■:.- Lonaon,;i'eomary M. ,-> iThe "Standard" protests against, the in- ft explicable delay, in appointing a successor v' to Sir Francis . Hopwopd,' who,Ueoiiie| ; . weeks ago, retired, from the.position"ofij Under-Secretary of State,for the Colonies.!;

KILLED IN A- WHIRLWIND.

','. London, February 24/ V . During a gale at Bradford,' a schoolgirl was caught by; A whirlwind!while ; in: the playground, carried, twenty.;feet into - the air, and killed. ...'.>•■.■.-:.": V:.'--:,;.--v

• BRUSSELS EXHIBITION FIRE. ; ;e

' Brussels, February 24; •; A commission of-' experts has decided.; that the Exhibitioh"fire;was;not; dne;to spontaneous combustion or ' incendiarismj'' but probably to a smoker's carelessness, :■:

MURDERERS CAPTURED. ; '.-v."-

St. Petersburg, February 24. Three of the. natives who:attackecLand murdered two " Englishmen—Mr. .MacHarvey, owner of the naphtha wprksiat Grosny, near the;Caspian'.Sea, and "Mr.v Barnard,: manager of the "a Russian ; workman,, havo been arrested.' ,ons committed suicide. .- '. , ;

THE RIVAL CITIES.

Sydney, February 25. The Minister for Tubhc fork's (Mr. Griffith) has written.to the .Melbourne Harbour Trust thanking it for, accepting the Fitiroy Dock's tender 'for a dredge, and stating that such a spirit will destroy the miserable' local animosities which hivo disfigured Australian public life.

A COXSEEVATOEIUM Or MUSIC.

Sydney, February 25 The Now South AValc-s Government' intends to establish .» conservatorium .of music.

THE TERTH MURDER. j Perth TVlii-nirv "i i

renn, teuruary «. 3 William Smart, sentenced 'to death : .. for J the murder of Ethel Harris,ha3.written ' to Mar> Peniberthv, his bienmous wife, expressing sorrow for what ho h?s done. i Otherwise he appears unconcerned! ]

QUEENSLAND BY-ELECTION

Brisbane, February 26 The by election fcr huoggera, neco'sitated lliroiigh the Hon. A.' G. C. Hawthorn'-, retirement, resulted in Mr. Trout, a Ministerialist, being' elected.

THE MILE END SEAT. ,

London, February 2* The petition against the return'cf the Hon. Harry Lanson (Unionist), "for the Mile End seat;- has been abandoned.