GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 41, 12 November 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

WOMEN'S WORK-NEW ZEALAND LADY'S EXHIBIT. Dt TEIEOIUMI—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPCTtIQHT. (Rcc. Nov. 12, 0.G5 a.m.) Molbourno, November 11. Among tho exhibits of tho Women's Work Exhibition which nttracted most attention to-day was Miss Rout's quite uniquo display of hand-mado books. This Now Zealand lady is responsible for somo most original work in tho applied art section. Lady Northcoto purchased sovoral of Miss Rout's books. MORE BIRTHDAY HONOURS. . London, November 10. In connootion with tho Birthday' Honours, Companionship of St. Michael and St. George has boen conferred on Mr. Lamb, for his services in connection with the reception of tho Colonial Premiers in. connection with tho rocent'lmperial Conferonee. Sir Charles Tupper, ex-Promier of Canada, who has held many portfolios in . that country, has been made a Privy Councillor. LATE SHIPPING. J - Melbourne, November 11. Arrived: Ganymede, fros Lyttolton. KILLED WHILE HUNTING. London, November 10. Lord Chosliam was thrown from his horse and was killed, while hunting with tho l'ytchloy hounds. Charles C. W. Cavendish, Lord Chesham, a former Master of tho Royal Buckhounds, was born in 1850, and was tho third Baron. Ho married Lady Beatrice Grosvenor, second daughter of the first Duke of Westminster! his heir, the Hon. John C. Cavendish, was bom in 1894. Lord Cliesham was Inspector-General of Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa in 1901-02, and has also held the position of Lord of Bedohamber to the Prince of Wales. His estato includes about 12,000 acres, exclusive of property in London. . NOBLEMAN'S SUICIDE. Paris, Novembor 10. Lord Kilmaino committed suioido in Pans during a neurasthenic attack. He jumped from a window in tho presence of his wifo, and fraoturcd his skull. Francis William Browne, Lord Kilmaino, was tho fourth Baron. Since IS9O ho has been a representative Peer for Ireland, and lie owned about 11,700 acres. His wife is a daughter of Colonel Deanc-Shuto. KAISER'S NEW GRANDSON. Berlin, Novembor 10. Tho Crown Princess of Germany has been accouched of a sou. In Juno, 1905, the Crown Prince of Germany, Friedrick' Wilhelm, married Princess Cecilie of ■ Mecklenburg-Sclnverin. Their first child, Prince Wilhelm Friedrich, was born is July, 1900. BUILDING ON GOLD. Sydney, Novombor 11. An old building is being domolishcd at l'arkos, and tho mortar is being cyanided in order to oxtract gold from tho auriferous sand used. It is believed it will yiold fo'-r pennyweights to tho ton. Parkes is a mining and agricultural town, 208 miles by rail from Sydney. It has a numbor of crushing mills and cyanide works. In •tho "good ejd days" they would liavo considered "four pennyweights to the ton" to be fit only for building purposes. The present incident recalls the. amusing story by Mr. Edward Dyson, "A Golden Shanty," which was popular some years ago. This was a fantastically funny tale of an old Hibernian who found that Chinese fossickers were removing his house in sections, during tho late hours of tho stilly night. Preventive measures failing, tho owner did some hard thinking, with tho result that lie experimentally sluiced somo of tho shanty himself, and found tho gold-yiold so rich tnat lie treated tho rest of tho cdifico in tho saino way, and forestalled tho Chinese. Evidently the day of buildings constructed more or less of material, which is auriferous (more or less), is not yet done. A BENT SOLILOQUY. Melbourne, Novombor 11. Tho Hon. T. Bont (Victorian Premier), spoaking at tho Lord Mayor's banquet, agreod that Australia needed advertising. "Little was known of Australia in England," ho said, "and England did not earo a but.ton for us excopt for what she got out of us."