GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 29 June 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TeleeraDti-Press Assoclatlon-Oeuyrlcht 6 . UNIONIST PARTY CHANGES. (Ree. Juno 29, 0.30 a.m.) London, Juno 28. Mr. A. D. Steel-Mnitland, Unionist member for Birmingham East, succeeds Sir A. Acland-llood, now a Peer, as chief Organiser of the Conservative party. ' ' Lord Balcarros is doing Whip's work in< the' House of Commons. A KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. Sydney, June 28. The Lord Mayor, Sir Allen Taylor, has called a meeting for Friday for the purpose of launching a movement to nerpetunto tho memory of King Edward. Twenty, fivo members of tho Highland Society havo already promised -CSOO towards tho fund. FATAL SHOOTING' OF A PRISONER. Hobart, Tune 28. 1 Tho gaol superintendent states that Mr. Driscoll, tho warder who mortally wounded tho prisoner Cooper while he was attempting to cscape, obeyed his instructions in tho spirit and manner intended. Ho aimed only to cripple tho man, as the position of Cooper's wound showed. ( ' ACTING-PRIME MINISTER MARRIES, Melbourne, June 28. Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Commonwealth Attorney-General, and Acting-Primp Minister, has married, as his second wife, Miss tho daughter of a wellknown New South Wales pastoralist. This is tho third Commonwealth Minister to bo married since Mr. Fisher's team took offico last year. EXPLOSION ON A SUBMARINE. New York, June 27. An explosion on board tho submarine Piko at San Diego, in California, injured three of tho crow, Tho others escaped as tho vessel was about to descend. [Tho Pike was built at San Francisco in 1902, nnd is of 120 tons displacement, her ingines developing 100 i.h.p., and giving; a speed of from 7 to 8 knots.] HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY. Ottawa, Juno 27. Out of a iotal of a hundred and ninetydeaths in the city of Montreal during the last few weeks, a hundred and nineteen were those of children under five years of age. This is a record in infant mor-' tality. SMALLPOX IN ALASKA. Ottawa, Juno 27. A severe outbreak of smallpox is ny ported from Dawson City, in tho Klondike district. Precautions have been adopted to prevent its spread.

A TOWN TO SHIFT. Ottawa. Juno 27. The town authorities of Forward, a new town in Saskatchewan, have decided to move the whole place nearly threo miles west of its present location, to :i railway intersection. Negotiations, for this purposo avo proceeding with a contractor. DILATORY LAWYER FINED. Melbourne, Jmio 28, A barrister has be<m fined <£5 for con« tempt of Court in being absent when his client was arraigned on a charge of murder. PORTRAIT OF LADY DUDLEY. Sydney, Juno 28. The ladies of New South Wales linvo presented Lady Dudley, wife of the retiring Governor-General, with a portrait of= herself, by Mr. John Longslaff, the Victorian artist, as a farewell souvenir. SANITARY RULES FOR BARBERS. Sydney , Juno.2B. The Broken Hill Council has adopt.-* ordinances for the control of barber; shops. They provdo for the sterilising <i all instruments after each use. WRECK OF A YACHT. Brisbane, June 28. Wreckage of a yacht has lioen fonmi at Howick Island. It is supposed lo lx> a portion of the Sccstcrn, which has boon missing for two years.