GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 117, 10 February 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Tti.Eouirn—raEss association—copyright. / SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

(Rec. Feb.' 9, 5.15 p.m.) . . Perthi,February 9. , The Australasian swimming championships wero decided at Frcmantlo to-day.A heavy swell prcvonted. fast, times. ; Tho halfmile ovent resulted as follow: Bcaurepairo (Victoria), 1; Diokman (New Soulh Wales), 2. Won by 60yds.. Time, llmin. 58 3-ss9c. 220yd5.,: Healy ■(New. South, Walos), 1; Beaurepairo , (Victoria), 2; Springfield (Queensland), 3. Won .by 10yds. Time, 2min. 44 l-ssce. , , v : FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, London, February 7. The herds on two farms, totalling two ! hundred cows,, were ordored to'be destroyed owing to tho outbreak of foot and mouth disease. ELECTRICAL' ENGINEER FOR SYDNEY. ■ Sydney, February 8. Threo namos • have been recommended for the post of city electrical engineer, in the order' named Mr. Mackay, lof tho Great Western Railway, England Mr.' Wyllio, of Auckland; Mr. Roberts, of Durban.

WINCOTT COOPER, COMPANY. J , v London, February 1 7. A': meeting of tlio Wincbtt Cooper Company has been 1 called io'consider ;tho position of .|he. business. ; The firm are managers of the, Australian Mutual Shipping Company; ; A NEW JUDGE. Sydney, February 8. ■ Dr, Richard Sly succeeds Mr. Justice Owen on tho Supremo Court.Bench. V ' Richard Mearcs-Sly,: K.C., M.A., LL.D., ( was born in Sydney in 18i9, and educated at the Sydney Grammar School and -Sydney-' University (double flr6t in classics; and mathematics at tho B.A. Honour Examination, and winner, of Gilchrist,. Travelling Scholarship';, of: JCIOQ a year for three years). He wont to London University in 1872, and took his-LL.B. dfgree, being called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in June, ,1875. Ho obtained a studentship in jurisprudence and Boman I law for two years at ,£IOO a year. The . new judge' has been an Acting Supreme Court Judge of New South Wales/ ' ;