GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1096, 7 April 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph-Press Association OopyrieUU QUEEN ALEXANDRA. (Rec. April G, 9.20 p.m.) London, April 0. Queen Alexandra, who has set out on a yachting tour to tho Mediterranean, had a rough passage in tho Channel in. the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Her Majesty intends to visit Genoa and Athens.

THE "OBSERVER" SOLD. '. London, April 6. Mr. William Waldorf Astor, the American millionaire, who has long been resident in England, has purchased tho "Observer," the well-known Conservative penny weekly papsr. Mr. V. L. Garviu, who has edited the paper with great vigour since 1308, will continue in tho editorial chair. [Mr. Astor has been interested in various newspaper enterprises in London of • recent years, and was for some time proprietor of tho 'Tall Mall Magazine."] 14. HEAVY SNOWSTORM. London, April 6. A heavy snowstorm is raging over England and Scotland. [AUSTRALIANS IN LONDON. London, April S. An 'Australian society for social purposes is being organised in London. It will be under tho patronage of Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia), the Australian Agents-General, and othor influential persons. GREAT FIRE IN TURKEY, Constantinople, April 5. One hundred houses at Kadikoui, a ' suburb of Constantinople, were burnt j down. The damage is estimated at ' ,£BO,OOO. ■*" INDIAN TRAIN WRECKED. Calcutta, April 5. A train was maliciously wrecked at Dinopur, in the Bengal Presidency. An ' Indian was killed and threo Europeans seriously injured. ■ A POLITICAL PICNIC. Melbourne, April B. A special steamer has been chartered to convey a large parly of Federal legist' lators to Papua on a six-weeks' trip. A NEW THEATRE. Sydney, April 6. A new theatre, the Adelpni, hns lieen opened in Sydney. It cost ,£30,000. \ POTATO BLIGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 6. E'.ight continues to spread in tho potato districts of this State. WOLFRAM FINDS. Melbourne, April 6. Promising finds of wolfram, which is used for hardening steel, are reported to have been made in tlie Northern Territory. CENSUS PROSECUTIONS THREATENED. Moll/ourne, April 6. ■ The Minister for Home Affairs,- Mr. O'Mnlky, has decided to enforce the law against persons withholding information required by the census returns. AUSTRALIAN STATE BANK BILL. Melbourne, April 6. The Prime Minister, Mr. Visjier, will draft tho Bill tn create a Commonwealth Bank while in England. He states (hat tho bank will be merely a competitor with the present banks. ■""* HANDLING OP CEMENT. • ■'■ Sydney, April 6. In order to meet the wharf labourers' objections to handling cement in bags, the Portland Cement Company proposes to use paper-lining to tho bags. Tto union is considering whether it will agree to handle the cement on these conditions. A COMING BALLOON RACE. Now York, April 5. Tho next intermit ional balloon. race starts from Kansas City on October 0.