GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 116, 8 February 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DY mEGIUrn—-riIESS ABSOCIATION-^COrYIUCnT. : 'ITALIAN CATHEDRAL IN DANGER. ; ' ' Rome,' February 6. ' The gradual sinking of the'slope-whercori tho Spoloto Cathedral, Italy; is Built, threat-, ens 'to ruin the structure. . ' Spoleto, a town of about 7000 population, has ! a citadel dating from the days of the', Goths; The cathedral'has frcscoes by Lippo' Lippi. • .- ■ ; .'■.. ~,--- THE NIMROD—COMMONWEALTH VOTE. ' > . ; Mejbourne, 'February 7. • A number of questions were asked in the Fcdoral Senate with; respect .to the £5000 voted .for expedition.'' Tho' MinV istcr said the application for a'grant had not been made alone by Professor . David, of : Sydney University,- who is one of the .scientists of the expedition,' but. representations hud.come from various sources. Ther.o was no roasoii to belic'vo that, the bxpedition - Wiis. a speculative ono, as suggested in one of the questions. ' ..' NEWCASTLE "CREEP." ' ■ .Sydney, Fobruary 7. ' The Ch'ief Inspector of Mines, giving evidence i before a Royal., Commission • .on the Newcastle "creeps," said,the Anglican Cathedral ' probably . suffered by. being on tho boundary ,of : the . two creeps.- It was "impossible to approach the old mine '.workings owing, to lire and water., : The. fire had been caused ;by suppressed combustion.