GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 69, 14 December 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Br TJ=».EGIUFH—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COrTRIOHT. THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER — AN OPERATION. .-.. (Rec Dec..l 3. 10.47 p.m.) New.York, December 13. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (neo Miss Roosevelt, daughter of tho" President) has underCone a successful operation for appendicitis.

W. AND A. M'AIITHUR, LTD. Sydney, December 13. of shareholders in W. and A. M'Arthnr and Co., Ltd., decided to wind up voluntarily, and to sell tho Company's warehouse business to a new Company;'also, to appoint Mr. A. F. Whinnoy, chartered accountant, ' as liquidator. "CHARTREUSE"-THE MONKS WIN ON APPEAL. London, December 12. Tho Court of Appeal has decided that tho monks are exclusively ontitled to tho Chartreuse trade-mark oirfcsido Franco, thus reversing Mr. Justico Joyco's decision.

. Being expelled from France, the Carthusian monks began to manufacture in Tarragona, a Spanish Mediterranean province, their Chartreuse, liqueur. They claimed that they carried the secret of its manufacture with them, and they sought to restrain the liquidator of their French property (appointed by the French Government) from shipping liqueurs to Great Britain as Chartreuse. Mr. Justico Joyca decided that the monks had not tho exclusive right to the name, but tho Court of Appeal finds against Mm.

/ BRIGANDS ARRESTED. Rome, December 12. Tho assailants of tho Marquis Oito, who was captured by brigands near Naples—and who, while being hold to ransom, was subjected to torturo—havo bcon arrostod in Homo.

BANK'S LIABILITY RE CHEQUES. London, December 12. Tho Master of tho Rolls held that, while it was not bound to rofusc payment of a chorine on receipt of an Vauthonticatcd telegram, a bank might reasonably postpone honouring it until enquiries had been niado.

LATE SHIPPING. Newcastle, December 13. Sailed': Brisbane, for Lyttclton; Inga, for Auckland.