GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

',: DOMESTIC TRAGEDY;- >U; ■,;■■'. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYEIGHT. ■ (Rec. Oct. 13,4.25 p\ni:)!:ni, ... ;. .. ~. , ' ■ Londpn, : Octqbei;,l2. The wife of a collier at Sleehum (Jfprthumborland) became demented after a long illness, drowned her five children, and then committed suicide. ; -~..,. ■;.- '. •..; ."• ■ . -l ! >,yr. .-■;•■ r:.: ■ ';'. sold as burgundy: ' /;; ■"' ; London, October 12. Tho Wine and Spirit Association is pror secuting a Eonsington tradesman for'selling as Burgundy a bottlo of " Key'of'Koystone " burgundy, which is Australian, and not a product of the French Burgandy.di.strict. Tho containqd no reference : to',Australia." Tho proprietors of the "Koystone',! .brand said it was proposed, boforo the prosecution started, to have a certificate from the South Australian Government analyst printed on the labels. The case was adjourned,, ROWING. r Sydney, pptober 13. At;the Rowing Assooiatiorfs , .'regatta the Sydney Club won-the ohampiou'eights. l ;-^ LUSITANIA'S SECOND'TRiP. / ■ ',■•.■„■■ - ■•■..■ -■. : New York,-October 11. The Lusitania'e ;Voynge to Now York occupied 116 hours. Tho average speed was 24 knots.. . ■•■;:, . .".■.-;v 1 ; , .';,. ■ :This is the Lusitania's second voyage.to America. The first ocoupied,. , . frotni Qiioepstpivn to Sandy Hook, tho Eamo time, 116 hoiirs, "• ■ "'■■'. ' PTOMAINE POISONING, i Adelaide, Ootobor 12. Between thirty qnd forty people- are-sufV faring from ptomainq poisoning. The poisoning has boon traced to custard eatou in a city restaurant. ... , ■ -\ ; On October 8 an 'Adelaide oablegrnm annbimcod ;that tweutyroight■ ■shoaTors.'wpre suft'oring from ptomnino jioisoning at Caiiowie, The cituso wns holioved to ba pressed bepf. AUTOMOBILES—THE . ROAD' PAct6r. . Paris, October 11. : France is initiating an international oonl gress for 1008 to discuss 'tho"problem o| rpnderina ropda sujtfiblp for n.utqmo.biie traffic, ' ' ' ' ■ •'■