GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

_ o : BX TELEGRAPH—rRESS ASSOOIATIOK-^COPtniGHT. THEFT OF: GOLD. (Rec. Nov. 12, 10.10 p.m.) ' ; ! London, November 12. A box containing 2000 half-sovereigns, part of a consignment ;bf :£4OOO intended for Brazil, disappeared from a parcels van. on the way from the city to Euston railway station. , SYDNEY- WOOL SALES. Sydney, November 12.. At the wool sales bidding was brisk, but values were lower than they were last week.' Good wools showed a decline of 2£ to 5 per cent., faulties 5 tJo'7 per cent.

BOILER EXPLOSION. I . Sydney, November .12.. '.' 1 Four persons were rather severely injured, and others slightly, .by the boiler explosion on tho Concord steam tramcar, reported yesterday. "; ';''" TRAIN. ACCIDENT. London, November 11. , The Great Northern express collided with a stationary fetin at Finsbury. Thirty persons were injured, but not, seriously, except: in two instances/':. .;,■:-, „;;., ,'.: ___ " , ■ ' I APPROACHING ECLIPSE < OF. MOSES. London, November 11. ■', Goneral Booth announces'that there- will shortly i:e realised the greatest colonisation scheme since the days of .Moses; • There is, he says, room in South Africa for all Britons unemployed, and he intends plants ing them thbro. . '..,...; HISTORICAL'PAGEANT."' . London, November 11. The ?hief! feature of -the. Lord Mayor's Show on Saturday was Louis Parker's historical, pageant of "The Edwards of England." There wero ho colonial features. Mr. Louis N. Parker- was the principal creator of tho \Yarwick pageant."-'He is best known as a dramatist, his plays including "L'Aiglon," "Cyrano do Bergerac/" and ."The Reel of Achilles." ' ......■'..' NEW ZEALANDfiPv'S ESTATE. London, November. 11. The personalty 'of the late Mr. William Sanders, of Hawke's Bay, has .been swoni at £35,530. . '.;'.' j,: ... ; '"-.'',., BRITISH RIFLE TEAM DEFEATS ; TASMANIA. ;..':':' ' Hobart, November 12. The British' rifle; team defeated Tasmania by 769 to 726.".'.' ,':'.:.;. .. ...