GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

V :• : BT TELEGRAPH—riIESS ASSOCIATION —COITIUGHT. MR. HALDANE REGRETS.: . (Rec. Jan. 26, 4.32 p.m.) , ' " ' ! London, January 25. Mr. Tavemer, Victorian Agent-General, interviewed Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, and complained of alterations ; in the War ; Office specifications,'for tho tinned meat contracts which' close on January v 18, permitting the use of : ch'eaner tinsJ This alteration had placed the Victorian tenderers at d; disadvantage' compared mth the Americans. • . • . Mr. Haldano, in reply, regretted that a mistake had been made, and promised that Australia would bo given ample notice of. alterations to ..specifi'pations in future.. ■( i ' RUSSIAN ROBBERIES. ''J;'' ■ • i Paris, January, 24. ; , Tlie Russians who wero arrested in Paris in connection witli the- Tiflis . robbery wero* released, because they, were outsido French jurisdiction. They' were conducted to the frontier.. , A BOMB WASTED. 1 Now York, January 24.; A bomb placed outside wrecked tho front- 1 ago of a bank in the Italian quarter of New York. Bullion was scattered about, but the police recovered it all. j STOLEN, PICTURE RECOVERED. 1 \ ~ London, January 24. Van Dyck's picture, "The Elevation of the Cross'," stolen ,from the Courtrai (Belgium) Church,. .was 'found in a gipsy's van at Bruges. j, , KITCHENER SUICIDE.; ' Sydney, January 25. . Mrs. Kitchener ; (sister-in-law of Loj-d Kitwho - suicided -at Colon, belongs to Melbourne. : PLAGUE. Brisbane, January 25. Four cases of plague were, reported during the week.. Two of the patients died. DOMESTIC WORKERS' UNION. . , . ' Sydney, January 25. A domestic workers' union has been formed here. '