GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 167, 12 April 1926, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

4 Bl Telegraph. —Press Association. COPYRIGHT. Count Plunkett’s House in Dublin was raided bv the military, and his sons Jack and George detained pending investigations into a recent armed assault. They were released later. As the pathologists and analysts will not complete their inquiries for some weeks, the inquests on the victims of the fire which destroyed the La Mancha mansion near Dublin has been adjourned to May 12. The gardener, McCabe, is being detained in custody. It is reported from Washington that Surgeon-General Ireland and the Secietarv of War, Mr. Davis, have recommended to the State Department of the United States participation in the Ironical Medicine Conference at Melbourne in 1927. Mr. Davis has asked the Philippine Government whether it will participate. The fact that two people arc killed in the Loudon streets daily is, revealed in the latest figures. During the twelve months 833 were killed and 39 186 injured in London, and 39/1 killed and 115 473 injured throughout Britain. During the last four years the London list has been growing heavily-, There is an average of 112 accidents daily. Sir Henry Galwav, former Governor of South Australia, at Australia House, in farewelling a party of sixty Dreadnought boys sailing for Sydney on the Demosthenes, and also twenty-five boys going to Queensland, explained that the Drcadnoughters would be allotted to “Big Brothers” on arrival. He said that with a single exception, every letter from two hundred “Little Brothers” already in Australia showed that the boys were happy and contented. A Reuter message from Washington says the Commerce Department has been advised ♦bat a Canadian land companv has been founded in. Berlin for the purchase, sale, or leasing of land in Canada. It is reported that the founders will be given an option over 25.000 acres of land in Saskatchewan suitable for wheat cultivation. It will be acquired from the . Canadian Pacific Railway for division into farms, and sold chiefly to German immigrants.