GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
Mr. Sydney Boston states that the approximate cost of the Titanic inquiry was £20,231. Pearce leaves Sydney for TiOndon on I February 12 to meet Barry for the J world's sculling championship. The s.s. Tasmanic has been docked at Dublin owin" to grounding. The repairs will tale a month. The Salvation Army has organised a special department to carry out the provisions of th-p White Slave Act at Home and abroad. Fire destroyed the basement of the Australian Drug Company's premises in O'Connell Street, Sydney. A quantity of valuable drugs was destroyed, the damage being heavy. The Aberdeen line has ordered from Messrs Harlojiu and Wolff an improved Demosthenes of 12,500 tons, triple screw, driven by combination reciprocating engines and low pressure turbines. The Vancouver civic authorities nnd the School Hoard have passed resolutions of thanks for the v.elo.omo accorded by the Press and by public bodies to the Canadian cadets on their tour of Australasia.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 302, 18 December 1912, Page 5
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