GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1137, 26 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph-Press ABSocialion-Copyrisht BABBIT CORNER BROKEN. (Rcc. May 26, 0.10 a.m.) T , . , .■ Sydney, May 25. It is reported that the independent rabbit packers have succeeded in breaking tho corner in the cold storage trade. STRIKE AT OPORTO. ,p ~ , . Lisbon, May 25. len thousand spinners and weavers nt Uporto ■ have struck for more pay and shorter hours. OBITUARY. mi j i, . Sydney, May 25. •Ino death is announced of Captain Barron, formerly well known in the Now' Zealand trade.

SUNDAY CONCERTS. Sydney, Mny 25 The Acting-Chief Secretary has' issued regulations directing that in future Sunday concerts shall bo of a strictly religious nature, and (hat no collection shpll bo taken up till the cud of the performmice. AVIATORS WARNED OFF. London, liny 2i. By common consent the Home Secretary, Mr. Churchill, is introducing a Bill to prevent aoroplaning over London durin? Coronation week. MELIU OPERA TOUR. London, May 24. Mr. Edmund Burke, the bass singer, who is appearing as Mephislopheles in "Taiist" with Melba lit Covcnt Garden, will accompany the'pdma, donna on her Australian tour. ACCIDENT IN ROTTEN ROW. , r London, May 21. Miss Florence Diivoni, daughter of iho late Sir Joseph Duvecn, was thrown from her horso in ltotten Row and fractured her skull. Her condition is serious. The King ii-ns rifling past at the time, and made inquiries. MISSIONARIES IN THE CONGO. Brussels, May 21. The British Government has made a friendly protest against, tho refusal of tho Congo authorities to grant land to. British missionaries. TAILORING DISPUTE IN AUSTRIA. Vienna, May 24. Six thousand tailors are locked out owing to an unjustifiable strike of tho employees of ono firm. A NEW DEPARTMENT. Sydney, May 25. The New South Wales Government i 9 converting tho Architects' Branch of the Works Department into a ltuilding Department. The new Department will control the construction of all Government buildings. L.UiCENT OF OPIUM. Sydney, May 25. Tho Full Court, in deciding an ap. peal, held thai opium, although prohibited property, could be made the subject of a charge, of larceny. THE PRINZ WALDEMAR. Sydney, May 25. Tho owners of the steamer Prins Wnldemar, which arrived from Japan recently, liaTfl been informed that they can remove the vessel from quarantine, but without tho officers and crew. Tho captain of tho steamer refused to nllow her to he moved unless ho was in charge. VICTORIAN WIXE OUTPUT. Melbourne, Mny 2.N, Owing to the ravages of phylloxera, the production cf wine in Victoria has fallen from 2,522,'.' C,l gallons in 1907' to 891,911 Inst year.