GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 February 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BY TEKGIUrn—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYIUGIIT.: TIMBER STRIKE—A PROSECUTION! : : ) . (Roe.' Feb. 13, 11i53 p.m.) . ' • ' Sydney, February 13. The timber owners intend to issuo writs ■ against the Timber Workers' Union, for breaches of Arbitration Court awards. COMMONWEALTH OFFICERS AT.HOME., .1 London, February 12. Lord Elcho, speaking: at a^London-County Council meeting, remarked that tho Commonwealth conkl have tho Strand site : for their officos at the same proportionate prico as' Victoria had obtained a site (for lier offices. Tho committe'o had done everything to- meet tho Commonwealth, but there had• boon no serious advance on tho offer being made, and he concluded, therefore, that the Commonwealth was not serious in the matter. The committee should close tho door, if it felt that it should no longer keep other people, who were anxious to negotiate, from doing so. ■ . SIR JAMES LAING AND CO. London, February; 12. It is ,reported from Simderland that Sir James Laing and Co., the. shipbuilding firm which recently suspended payment, is likely to be reconstructed, everyone to bo paid in fu!l. ' . ' . ' , , FATHER AND CHILD. - ; London, February 12. ; Tho Hon.' James Gully, eldest son of Viscount Selby, who is soparated from his wife, ran away to Sweden'with his ten-year-old child.- A detective followedj and the child was' recovered. . .' ' . CARUSO'S CONVICTION. Mow York, February 12. A soiuel has occulted to t'u. ohnrgo of annoying a woman in a. public place, on which Signor Caruso was-fiiied white on a provious visit to New York, being convictcd ou police evidence, tho woman informant having disappeared. A woman, on being fined for drunkonness and fighting in Now York, confessed that it i was showho had complained to Constable Kano that Signor Caruso had annoyed her'in the gardens. She did not appear at tho Police Court, and Caruso was fined on the testimony of Constables Katie. Signor Caruso, on hearing that his ' old enemy had been fined, exclaimed: " Now my vindication is complete." HIDES. Melbourne, February 13. In tho hides market competition is keen, and prices are very firm. Supplios are moderato.'