GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 111, 3 February 1908, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

:': 9 ■ : »T TET.EOIUrn—I'HESS USSOCIATION-COPTnlOai. AUSTRALIAN MAIL STEAMERS. • (Rcc. Feb. 2, 4.46 p.ni;) London, February 1. • In pursuance ; of its contract with the Australian Government ; to build; oventually eight new steamers for the carriage'of mails, the Orient Company have ordered a portion of their now steamers, from Workman, Clark arid Co., (Belfast), the' Glasgow Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, and tho Fairfield. Shipbuilding' .Company, UNITED:. STATES UNEMPLOYED. New York, January 31. Tho secretary of the American Federation of Labour 1 stites that there arc fou•.hundred thousand more unemployed in tho United States than usual at,-this season of the year. Tlicv are chiefly; m ;frcw 'York; Chicago, and St. Louis'. : . ■■ r SHIP REINSURED. London, February 1. ■ Ninety., guineas .is.-.being- paid .to reinsure the steel ship Captle Rock—l9l2 tons, built m 1892: at Glasgow—bound: frora Sydney to Seattle. ■■ 1 AN ESPERANTO STATE . London, January 31., •The " Daily Mail" states that French, .Belgian, .y-andj'j, German' ..Esperantists. have ol; an' iridepondeht' Esperanto in ; tho ' neutral; territory, of. Mpresnet,; between ..liiege,,. and the . Prussian Rhine province. •'i ~ ' v ; The neutral,'territory, of'Moresnet,. formed in 181G, is . about . 70;-acres in extent, and isi hotcrned bv a It is about four miles, from;' AixiLa-Cliapellb. ' ' ' . . HACKENSGHMIDT AGAIN WINS. i'.'/:---- New-York,'.January 31.,-, llackcnschmidt easily defeated Joe Rogers, the American -champion-wrestler, in two throws. " .; ' ' PREMIUM' AND BONUS IN - STATE ' : DOCKYjVRDS. - London, January 31. ; ..Lord-Tweedmouth, Krst Lord of the Adreplying to. a', deputation from tho Parliamentary-. Committee'.', of' the, Trade Union . Congress, . declined. to . abolish tho premium and bonus system in tho Government'dockyards.;.

. , PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco) January 31. Cases of. {plague are still being'.discovored ill widely-separated; districts of' San Francisco. Tho diseaso and the number of rats aro increasing. Physicians predict a terrible outbreak in.,tho spring. . . LCC HA.LL—-YOUNG.ARCHITECT'S " success. t 'London, .January 31. - -Tho design of Mr. Ralph Knott, a young and unknown London' architect, : has been selected for tho; London County Council's new hall, to bo erected at a cost of £850,000. Air. Knott's Commission will amount to £33,250.: .. RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. '~ Sydney, February 1. Splendid m.onsoonal rain is falling in districts where it is. most needed'.

It would be a : good thing if our irietropolitan clubs wero to idiscourago. tho younger lads from (becoming caddies, sind rather seok to employ , older men who are cither temporarily out of work or incapacitated from it by : some physical cause. Near the large towns there arc always plenty of pensioners of one kind or another wiio would be very glad to earn 2s. 6d. # il«r.—-"Golf illustrated."- ;