GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

»r TEtEORAPtt—PttESS ASEOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. MRS. GOOLD. ; './ Monte Carlo, February 13. Mrs.' Goold, who was convicted; of being concerned with , her .luisbahd, :ill' the 'murder of Madamo.Lovin at Monte Carlo, and' whoso sontonce of death has : just been commuted to one of imprisonment, will 'slibrtly be sent to.' tho' penitentiary Ut 'Cayenne, Frencli Guiana: ,

DEATH'OF SIR RICHARD STRACHEY

■1 London, February 13. ' General Sir Riohard Strachey, tho eminent .ildian administrator, is dead; aged ninetywo.. !

. •Wowtenaut-Qoncrftl''Sir-. Richard' Slrachey, .u.0.0.i., 1'.1t.b., LIj.D,; was ninety years of age. lii 183fj ho-entered the JiilkC. Kiigiucers, aud scned- with honours iii ; the Sutloj campaign, 1845—16. . .Tie .was Secretary to. the Government of the Cehtral .Provinoes during the Indian Mutiny,, 1857-58.' In .1867 lie 'was nspector-Gencral or Irrigation, and frbiii 1869 to 18(0 ho \vas legislative : member of the boveriior-Gcneral's Council. . Other positions held by him were: Member of, the Council of India, 1575-89; President of the Famine Commission, • 1878-80; acting financial member ,° f , "»c Governor-General's Council, 1878 delegate to Prime Meridian Conference, Washington, 1884; delegate to the Monetary Conference, Brussels, 1892; member of Lord Ilor--scnels Committee on Indian Currency, 1892' Chairman of tho Meteorological l Council, 18S31905 ; President of . the Royal- Geographical Society, 1888-90; Royal Medallist, of {ho Royal Society, 1897; Chairman of the East Indian Railway Company. 1889-1907; Chairman of the Assam-Bengal Railway Company; 1892-1907. TiTIO LAING COMPANY. London, February 13. As a . protest against not being included in' tho' preferential creditors for a' claim of £2300, tho Corporation of'Sunderland's" Electricity' Committeo cut off tho supply of current to the shipbuilding' works of Laing and Sons, who recently suspended payment; but wliOj under a proposed sclicmo of reconstruction,; expect to pay all creditors in full. ' ' .' Later. Sir James Laing has closed tho-Company's I works, intimating that this step is due to tho [, action of tho Corporation t and the vrater company in stopping supplies. ' SEVEN YEARS FOR DIGAMY. • London,.February 13. Hjno, the bigamist, was ' sentenced to seven - years': imprisonment. ' A London'cablegram of January 17 reported that Hync (or Lyne), a German Jew and bigamist, had been arrested'at Aberdeen. Ho is jalleged to have married a "hundred women .one of whom, ho defrauded of ,£2000.' ' ' MISSING. , _ : London, February 13. Tho Italian-owned iron ship Pellegrina O. 1534 tons, coal-ladon from NoWcastlo to Antofagasta," Cliilo, has been ,posted as missing. • '■■ " .