GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 96, 16 January 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

_— '■ .... ■ | Ul' TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPVEIQIIT. MONTE CARLO MURDER. ......... Monte Carlo, January 14. : The appeal of tlio Gooliis against their conviction for. the murder of Madame Levin was • r . ■' ' PLAGUE IN WEST AFRICA.' , ; , ' Dahomey, January 14. i Two deaths from plague have occurred at Accra, the .seat of government of the British colony of tlio Gold Coast. AUSTRALIA'S TRADE WITH .THE* EAST. . Sydney, l , January 15. ..; Cabinet. lias decided to grant substantial ;encdurageinent..to trade with the East; 1 DEATH OF AN ASTRONOMER. ; Melbourne), January 15. The death is announced of Mr. IJ.. Ellery,formerly Government. Astroliqmer ; ; aetat 81. Lieut.-Col. B. L. J. Ellery, C.M.G., F.R.S., was born in ' Surrey in l»ii7, and caino to Melbourne in 1851. In 1553 lie accepted on appointed to establish an Observatory near Melbourne, and he continued as Director of .the Observatory v (wliicli was afterwards moved to Melbourne)' until 1895, when he,-' retired from - tne public, service of the colony. In 1873 lie organised, arid subsequently coniniande'd, tlio Victorian Torpedo Corps (now the Submarine Mining Engineers), from which he. retired with the rank of Lieutl-Colonel in 18S9. For 21) years ho was President of the lloyal Society of Viotoria. Ho has published several volumes on astronomical and meteorological subjects. "WITH THE EASE OF A BIRD;" London, January 14. Mr. Farman's aeroplane sped with porfect stability and alighted with the ease of a bird. It descended in Paris. DEEP MINING AT BROKEN HILL. Sydney, January 15. A lodo has been cut at a dopth of 1400 feet in tho Broken Hill Proprietary mine. Nowhcro along tho lino of reef has an oregarrying lodo been struck : at so groat a depth. VICTORIA MEETING A LOAN. Melbourne, January 15. Tho State Government has forwarded to London the balance of tlio money required to take up tho two million loan maturing in April. No money will bo required from investors in London. • HEAT AND DROUGHT. Sydnoy, January 15. Tho heat in tlio intorior is very sovere, tho thermometer registering 110 dogreos at Broken Hill. The effects of tho continued dry weather i'b boginning to bo soriously felt. In many districts thero is a shortage of water and food. t STEAMER WRECKED. ' Suva, January 15. Tho wooden steamer Parua (51 tons not) is, a total, wreck at 'Bua. There are no fatalities. SYDNEY'S SHIPPING. Sydney, January 15. Tho tonnage of vessels that entered Port Jackson last year aggregated 7,192,000, an increase of 703,900 tons. The vessels carried 100,280 passengers, ail increaso of 17,690. OLD ABORIGINAL DEAD. Melbourne, January 15. Jennie Green, " tho aboriginal queon," died in an asylum for the insane, aged 70 years.

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