GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 272, 16 November 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The run on the Birkbeck Bank ie diminishing. J. Broadbent, a jockey, was killed in a race at Taroom, Queensland, yesterday. Vancouver City intends amending its charter, and will grant the vote to women in municipal affairs. Over 100 inhabitants in the Parisian suburb of Amiens have been taken out of their flooded homes in boats. The Melbourne Gas Company's experiments prove that Powlett River coal is unsatisfactory for gas-making. It is reported that there has been a great gold strike on the Squirrel Eiver, Alaska, and a stampede has set in. The Australian North Coastfs steamer Maianbar ran a successful trial on the Clyde. She sails for Sydney to-day. The British Rifle Association will in future divide its service rifle programme into two parts—the expert and the nonexpert. The Chilian Government expert states that the nitrate deposits belonging to the State axe capable of an output sufficient for a century's consumption. Mr. Norman Wilson has been appointed secretary of the Victorian Club, in succession to Mr. Buckley. There were 58 applicants for the position. Negotiations for settlement of Manitoba's boundary are proceeding at Ottawa. Manitoba offers Ontario access to Hudson Bay, and a settlement on this basis is probable.