GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1072, 10 March 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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TKE PORTSMOUTH COMMAND.

London, March !). Admiral Sir A. W. Moore, who was Commander-in-Chief on the China Station from 1900 to 1908, has been appointed to succeed Admiral Sir Asshetou CurzonHowe as Commander-in-Chief <at Ports, mouth.

LORD CREWE,

London, March 9, Lord Crowe, Secretory of State for India, ■who'has been unwell for some days, is steadily 'improving in health.

NEW WIRELESS STATION.

. ' London, March; 8. The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Ltd.,. notifies the .establishment of a wireless telegraph station at the Cocos Islands, in the Indian Ocean, which will maintain communication with vessels within a radius of 250 miles.

EX-SOLDIERS AS SETTLERS.

London, March 8. Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald PoloCorow has been elected chairman of tho Central Emigration Board's special committee to deal with the emigration of oxsoldiers to the Overseas Dominions.

FASHIONS AND TRADE.

London, March 8. ~ Tho Nottingham Chamber of Commorco resolved that grotesque Paris fashions arc gravely injuring the textile trades.

FINES FOR. WIVES.

London, March 8. Tho Courts have made a new departure with regard to restitution of conjugal rights cases. They now fine a wife for every day's delay in complying with the order for restitution.

A GHASTLY DISCOVERY.

Paris, March 8, Tho corpse of a negro was discovered within a bah of cotton on a ship 'discharging at Cistres. It is believed to be a case of foul play.

PROSECUTION OF STRIKERS. .

• Sydney, March 9. The Industrial Court has granted leavo to prosecute tho employees at the Lithgow ironworks and the Careoar mines; who recently left work, on charges of having been engaged in. illegal strike. ,

FRENCH MEMORIAL TO KING EDWARD.

Paris, March 8. A committee has been formed to erect a monument to King Edward at Cannes, to which place the late monarch was a frequent and popular visitor.

STORMS IN CALIFORNIA,

Now York, March 8. There have been heavy rain and snowstorms throughout Calitornia. The railways are blocked. The town of SSau Jos"o is flooded. Orchards in the district.arc ruined.

AN OFFER REFUSED,

St, Louis, March 8. Mr. Howard Elliott, president of tho Northern Pacific Railway, has declined the presidency of the Missouri-Pacific Railway, a considerably larger company,;

BRITISH TRADE,

London, March 7. The Board of Trade returns show that for the month of February imports increased by JM,!HS,IIS, and exports by .£3,001,250, and that re-exports decreased by .C 190,401, as compared with Fubruary, 1910.

RUSSIAN FISHERMEN RESCUED.

St. Petersburg, March 7. In connection with the breaking away, in the Gulf of Finlnud, of on ice-floe on ■which were 500 fishermen, who were carried out to sea, it is now stated that nearly all on the floe were saved.

A MOROCCAN REVENGE.

Tangier, March 7. A son.of the Minister for War killed tho leader of a French mission ar Fez on the ground that ho had executed two natives.

THE GILBERT ISLANDS,

Sydney, March 8. Tho drought on tho Gilbert Islands has broken up. Rain, fell steadily during January.

FIRE IN NEW SOUTH. WALES,

Sydney, March 8. A firo at Hornsby destroyed the Bank of North Queensland and two adjoining shops, and damaged four others, Tho damage has not yet been estimated.