GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BT TELEGRAPH —PEESS ASSOCIATION —OOPTRIOIIT. /GAOLER AND CONVICT AS COINERS. (Rec. Feb. 26, 1.9 a.m.) ' Berlin, February'2s. • A gaoler at Rensburg, nariied Sclileswig, has been arrested for assisting a convict to carry on coining in his cell. Tho ■ gaoler's wife and mother-in-law uttered the counterfeit coins. ' OPERATION ON MR. EDISON. , • • (levy York, February 25. Mr. .I'. A. Edison, tho inventor, has been operated on for mastoiditis (inflammation of tho mastoid, or temporal bone). . . ,LATE CANON GREENE'S BEQUESTS. : , London, February,24. ! Canon Greene, Rector' of Clapkam, after leaving legacies to his two nephews, 'left the balanco of his Australian' property to. tho Archbishop of Melbourne and the Bishop of Wangaratta equally upon,trust for tho purposes of their dioceses.PRINCESS CHRISTIAN UNWELL. ' London, February 24. H.R.H. Princess Christian is suffering from influenza. She is progressing.

REAR-ADMIRAL POORE. Melbourne, February 25. Roar-Admiral Sir Richard Poore, who succeeds Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes as Commander-in-Chief on tho Australian station, will hoist his flag on tho ilag-3hip Poworful to-day.' ! AGAINST THE DANYSZ MICROBE. Melbourne, February' 25. ; The State Government has .decided that it is inadvisable, ill view of tho present knowledge of gorms and thoir effect, that Dr. Danysz's virus for rabbit extermination should be brought to Australia.