GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 79, 27 December 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

nr TELEGHA.i'n— press association—coFYiitGirr: REDUCED PVf>SAGl>> TO THE DOMJMON (Rcc Dec 26 827 im) London, December 2o Duriiif! the last bi\ montlih 1280 pcn-ons, chiefly isls, each possessing it, least £25, ttcrc grmtccl pihsages to JS T ev Zealand. , RAN'O DIVIDENDS I Caps Town, Dccembo'/2o The Bind dmdonds, during 1907 - total seven millions sterling SUICIDD I London, December ,25. Mr. r. 11. Kendall, lately senior General Manager of tlio PenuKi-ular frnd Oriental Company, and at of tho Company in Melbourne,.has, committed, suicido. - .' J MR, CHURCHILL AT KHARTUM. j • ' . ■ Cairo, December 25. j Mr. Winston Cliurchill, Uisder-Secrctary; for the Colonies, who has bc.cn'on a tour of tho -East African Crown colonies, .has arrived! at Khartum. ' ' ' . ! UNDER-FED'SCHOOL . 26. ! Queon Alexandra has subscribed a hundred guineas to the fund for feeding under-fed school children—a charge, which the London County Council considers should not fall on tho rates. (Tho Prince and the Princess of Wales have subscribed £50.) OBITUARY. I London, DecemW 26. ! The death \is announced of Colonel Alaii C. Gardner, Liberal member i ioi\ ithe-_ ''Ross Division of Herefordshire, bom in 1846. ' Colonel Gardner took part ihithe'iZulu and Boer Wars of 1879 and 1881, and was mentioiiccl in despatches, lie was severely wounded at tho Dnttle of Kambula. -lie ■jvOfl-iiis-.Twat iij 190G, having been rejected .by East Marylcboiio in 1895. In 1880 ho was A.D.C. to the Viceroy of Ireland. ~; ".• .'*'.:;T y ,:i' ! LATE SHIPPING. , . i .-.'> ■-''V .-■• i Brisbane, December 26; ] Sailed: Miowora, for Vancouver. I 1 Hobart, December 26! j' Arrived: Athonic, from London. Sho sails for Wellington- at six o'clock to-morrow, I;