GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BY TEtiEGRAriI—TOESS ASSOCIATION—COrYRIGIIT. FAMINE 'THREATENING IN INDIA.'; (Rec.-Oct. 25,. 11.42 p.m.) . ' London, October 25. Lord Minto, Viceroy; roports that - the' agricultural situation. in India 1 (where tho crops are failing and famine' is threatened)' is.-worse. ' : ; ' i' l DROUGHT. ' , ,■i i. . Melbourne, October 25. ; The, rainfall from September. : l -to 'October ,25 was 1.22 inches, the lowest • registered .for sixty-five years. ■ 1 '•' FEDERAL TARIFF. ' 'Melbourne, October 25. In committee on the Tariff Bill in tho Fodoral Houso, tho proferonco duty on candles, was reduccd from twoponco to tlirec-half-■pence.per pound. . I : IRISH LEAGUE. .. London, October 24. 1 A eontral branch of the Irish . Leaguo has been established in-Dublin. ■ ' ■ RELEASED. — ' Paris, October 24. Veltheim, tho man who shot Woolf Joel in 1898, and who was recently arrested in Paris on an English extradition warrant, charged with attempting to blackmail Solly Joel to the extent of £1(3,000, has been released. Tho court hold, that there was insufficient . evidence to justify his extradition. . . ' .:

COST OF REPRESENTATION AT HOME. , Hobart,. October. 25.. The sccond reading of a Bill doubling tho cost, of tho Agency-Goncrnl Department was rcjcctcd in tho Assembly by nineteen votes to six. ACCLIMATISATION. , London, Octobrr 24. Six red deer and six .Mongolian pheasants are being shipped by tho Tongariro for tho Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The deer aro being imported to supply needed nev; blood. Tho Mongolian pheasant is hardy, and a good'sporting bird: