GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 30, 30 October 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEGHAPiI—I'BESS ASSOCIATION—COPYMCHT. CAMDEN TOWN MURDER. (Bee; .Oct. 29, 8.47 p.m.) London, October 29. At the inquest ou the woman Dimmock, who was murdered at Camden Town, a verdict of. murder was returned against Wood, the artist, whom the police cliargo with the crime. HONEST TRADE MARKS. , Clrristi'ania, October 29. In August last tho Norwegian Minister for Agriculture promised to bring .under notice of tho Cabinet a protest by tho Victorian Agent-Gonerai (Mri Taverrier) against tho use of the word "Australia" as a trade-mark by a Norwegian firm for margarine. The Norwegian Government mil shortly introduce a new law preventing goods being marked with an incorrect definition of the place of 'origin, or being marked in surh a way as.,to cause a mistaken idea as to tho place of origin.' , ;

GERMAN FISHING INDUSTRY'. Berlin, October 28.. Half a million sterling has been promised to establish a great German fishing industry, to compete with the British. The Headquarters will be at Cuxhaveri, oh the south bank of the Elbe, 72 miles north-west' of Hamburg. . ' ■ RECORD WOOL SALE.. ~. Adelaide, October 29. Thirty-two thousand five hundred bales'of ■wool were offered at auction yesterday—a world's record for a single day's business. EMPLOYER ON .WAGES BOARDS AND ! .' TRUSTS. "•' '■'•'.' ■ Sydney, October 29. At the Employers'-Federation dinner tho presidont said ho welcomed tho Wages Board proposals of the' Government. He derided anti-trust legislation, as there were no trusts in Australia. . . ' , . . MURDERER HANGED. .Sydney, October 29. Nicholas Baxter, who was convicted of murdering Mrs. Macnariiara at Enrhorc, a suburb of Sydney, was executed to-day. Death was instantaneous. Tho murderer broke into his victim's house in order to rob her, and, according to his awn confession, battered her head in .with a stick, because she would not keep quiet. He was a neighbour of the murdered woman. , SUEVIC'S NEAV NOSE. '" ,; . ; ■"■;■ London, October.23. Tho fore-part of tho steamer Suovio has reached Southampton.

When .the t body of,the White Star steamer Sue'vic'was'.'treed'by blasting, leaving the bow sticking', 'on the rocfcs : near Tho Lizard, the body'-'was towed (with the assistance of its.own steam) to. Southampton, and Messrs. Harland and Wolff contracted to. build l , at their.Belfast yards', a new bow, which, was lo be towed to Southampton and united ..'there to (lie old hull. The new bow weighs .1000 lons, and Is 212 ft. long. The work of uniting is expected to occupy a couple of months. DROUGHT. ,'■ Sydney, October 29. Large numbors of drought-stricken stock are being sent to Victoria. NEWCASTLE MINERS' DEMANDS. Sydney, October 29. Tho 'colliery proprietors express det'criniiVatio'n to resist' the Newcastle miner's' fresh demands. " '