GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

- ... ». .. BY TELEGRAPH—rBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. A BAND'S VISIT. (Rec. March 19, 0.21 a.m.) : : Adelaide, March .18. Arrangements have been completed for a visit of tho Royal;-Artillery Band to Australasia. ■It will leavo England on April 9.. '■ LAWN'TENNIS. 1 ' Nice, March 17. '■ : Wilding and Ritchie beat tho brothers Doliorty by. three - sets to' one for the South of Pranoo championship at Nice.

Ritchie recently beat Wilding for the Champianship of' (ho Riviera. Tho form of tho Dohorty's is interesting, in view of their return to tennis, aftfer ■ their absence last year, when tho Victorian, ■ Brookes, took the :title of champion' previously held by H. L. Doherty, while BroDkes nnd Wilding brought to Aaisitralasia the Da'viß Cup.- . V-.y,

.;/.' SIR JAMES LAING: AND SONS. . ■;'!' ■ • -London, March 17. ! ' ,; Tlie'hearing' of V' p6titi6ii c ; fbi"'thb compulsory Winding-tip of 1 Sir James Lairig and Sons, : shipbuilders—'who latoly suspended payment—was adjourned iii 'ordor to crossexaniino witnesses. 1 Counsel stated that the compiriy since 1906 had lost upwards of" a quarter Of a 1 million./ No reason was tendered for tho losses. -y. ;• > BRITISH-AMERICAN PENNY POStfAGE. London, March 17. The. "Daily Express" states that tho Budget will. provide; for penny postago between Great Britain and America. ■ A MISSING SHIP. ' London, March 17. ■ The British sloop-of-war Shearwater, Commander Allgood, is at Iquique, Chili, searching, tho adjacent islands for any. survivors of the ship Silberhorn, 1923 tons, which left Newcastle for Iquique on July 17 last, and which was reported' to have been burned at sea. . ' I ; FOOT AND "MOUTH DISEASE. London, March 17.. The Government state that foot and mouth disease. in and around Edinburgh has been stamped, out. ■ ' ' ; miss Nightingale. , /' London, March 17. Miss , Florence 'Nightingale's nephew .received at the Guildhall, on her behalf, the Freedom of tho City. The City Chamberlain remarked that it was.strango that an earlier generation of civic authorities had failed ,to distinguish themselvos by distinguishing Miss Nightingale..-.' . . MR. ASQUITH'S CHAUFFEUR FINED. London, March 17. : Tho Right Hon. H. H. Asquith's chauffeur was fined £4 for driving Mr. Asquith-at an oxcessive speed in St. James's Park. A plea ,of privilege was disregarded. . VICTORIAN WHEAT-SURPLUS FOR i EXPORT. Melbourne, March 18. Statistics regarding tho wheat -harvest show tho actual yiold was 12,100,780 bushels, an average of 6.55. The oxportablo surplus will bo a--little ovor 4,000,000 bushels., MR. PRICE AT HOME. - • , London, March 17. Mr. Price, Premier of South-Australia, declared that protection for' Australia was a fixed , policy, with preference to England. He declined to discuss Home labour problems, but declared that the English investor need, not fear confiscation or breach of agreements. 1