GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

■ .— BY TELEGRAPH—MESS ASSOCIATION—COrYRIGHT.. TRINITY COLLEGE BEQUEST. ' ■ ,) London, Decembor 26. ' Under the wili of Sir' William Tearce, Chairman of the : Fairfield "Shipping -and Engineering - .Company, recently deceased, Trinity Cpllcgo, • Cambridge University, was to receive a bequest of £400,000 on the death of deceased's widow. • As' she has died, Trinity College will receive tho money imt modiately.

JOHN BURNS'S CHRISTMAS. ) , , ' London, Decomber 26. Tho Right Hon. John Burns, Presidont of tho Local Government Board, spent Christmas visiting tho ihmates'of greatest London workhouses, and tho diphtheria and fover hospitals, ; and cheoring tho patients. SALVATION ARMY FEEDS THE POOR. Now York, December 26. Salvationists throughout America \ undertook tho feeding of the poor on Christmas Day. Thoy gave 150,000 dinners in New York. ! FEDERAL' PREFERENCE TARIFF! London, Decomber 26. "Tho Times" has published a full list of tho proforenco duties adopted, by the Commonwealth House and conceded to Britain. TASMANIA!? CABLES—PROPOSED / . PURCHASE. , . . • Melbourne, December 27. Tho Federal Government proposed to purchase the Tasmaniaii cables from the Eastern Extension Company, but made it a condition that the company should raiso tho cables within a specified timo for inspection. The company applied for an extension rf timo, but ,thq Postmaster-General refuses to grant it. ; ATTEMPT TO DERAIL A TRAIN. Melbourne, Dccombor 27. Mackley, a farm labourer, has been arrested on a charge of attempting to derail the Adolaido express at Horsham on December 14—tho occasion when sleepers wore placed on tho lino, but, were cut through by tho engine, which was travelling at high speed. HEAT IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, December 27. On Christmas Day tho temperature reached 105 degrees in'tho shade, and that heat was maintained till noon of Boxing Day, when a cool change set in.