GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 148, 17 March 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

>.' ■ .■ ; :■ ,::-V BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPmiGHT , CORRUPTION IN PENNSYLVANIA. . (Rec. March .16, 11.23 p.m.) , , Now York, March J. 6. , Five officials of; the Stato of Pennsylvania, including an architect-, a contractor, and an' auditor, have ,been; found | guilty.' of:-awind-s ling to the extent, of £1,800)000 in ; ;conhepi :

tion with the building , and' furnishing 1 of ; : thq State 'Capitol. -i

A CYCLING RECORD/ ' ' ■■.. (Rcc. March .17,'1.15, a.m.) :'. J Melbourno, March 10- '■ .'I / Pearson,, the .cyclist, .rodo from Sydney . post office to Melbourne ' post-office , in - 57 hours 32 minutes;'a record. , . i ; • : ' ' ■ A STEAMER LOST Durban, March 15. ; Tlio ;Vi steameiii Newark -Castle, 6224, tons gross, built- m 1902, has been hopelessly wrecked, north .of, 'Durban'. - .Tho prow and the passengers iwere' '.savod. ■ ' ' i '; ' (. i,,,, j, FRENCH CONSUL ,IN. HEBRIDES.- ■ ,' ". Paris, March 15. 'Governor Noufflard--has •been--.'appointed' French Consul for ..the Now... Hobride.s,;;-in oi-der that the, French representative shall be of' oqual ' rank, ; tho British. M.' Noufflard has. had a^distinguishod'career in Gaboon, French WesiMATtM. •' . ; ' ABDUCTING,A.DAUGHTER. :i, , rreLondon, March 15. • ' Tho Hon. James Gully, eldest son of Viscount Selby, who is and 1 who. recently i .rah-|'awayj.te.iSwedon> with' his ten-year-old'.child,:. h4s.»:surrendefii'df oVi' a . charge of- abducting his v daughter, "' and was lodged in Brixton prison. '• . 1 RUGBY—AVALES "BEATS IRELAND I L'ondon, Mai-ch 15 At, Rugby football Wales defoated-Ireland | by a, goal and tw.o tries. ,to a goal; - ' i;: A : DUNEDI^,.LpAN; VtU> ;. ; ... ' . ... London, Ma'rch-lS^; Dunedin has issued- : a'''quarter' of million' 4 per : cent, debentures at' par: The money i is .for' redemption purposes,"and;will- bo-re-1 payable in 1933. > | "CREEP" AT BROKEN HILL.' ' ' ' J 'Sydney, March 16 1 A " creep " lias occurred -in Block '14,' ! Broken Hill. A railway . line which runs I through the block to tho British .mine,has 'bien left suspcndcdr.thMo;-;fcct'in tho air '-J Littlo damago ,has;, been- done"underground.-