GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 159, 30 March 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Br- TELEGnApn—^association —corrniont. ( SGULLING? 1 1 priAMPIONSHIP. ■ (Rot. ■Mai t dv\29j 4.25 p.mO: ; ' -—Sydney,-March 29. " .' Fogiyoll ilras. covered "Thoroughgopd's Vd4; posit to raco 'for* l -the Australian sculling championship 011 t'h'd.iHunWptlliver.' ;j ' .p^y.r SIR JAMES LAjING AND SONS., - (Rec. MaTch-29,-4.40 p.ni:)-' i |ti i«l' ' \ -jlontlon, Ma/ch 2jL,*'' In connection j"an)cs, Lamg>,and; j^s* Hugh Laing's ' frank .explanatory • evidence, Messrs- Barclay and Ltd.,- with-) drew thcar application for compulsory, wind-ing-up, and' agreed!.^.voluntary!liquidation. - Messrs. Barclay- and Co., Ltd., the woll«. known bankers of Lombard,. Street, London, were the guarantors for the Laing syndicate in connection with? thte'?.£2s,ooo !bond| required when the syndicate tendered for the Australian mail contract.. This sum has not yet been received by- the Commonwealth. ; . ; • ■-'..•■v.-:- -.' JAPAN; S ,RAILWAYS.,- ! " ' / '- ■ • ■ -.> Toklo, March 27.■ Owing to-the failure - of'her nationalisation schomo, Japan proposes' to" lcaSfe"hcf Railway,? to a foreign syndicate,'whioh* will~6stend and' improve thom. . • ■ . j - . ( : '.< ' ";• '•" L ''?•: — BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. ( London, March! 27.The Bank of Australasia has elected tlio. Right Hon. Alfred -Lytteltori vico'Mr. W. A. M-'Arthur. • 1 EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.; : ; : London, March 27.. . '! In the Houso of Commons Captain Sinclair (Secrotary for Scotland) has introduced a Bill to strengthen tlio provision for see-; ondary education for Scotland.; y , j ;• - >-■ ■■ ! ' '■ 7■' ' ' .;■■ -:■■■ SENTENCED'TO DEATH. Brisbane, March 28..,., A man named Riley was sentoncod to fourteen years' imprisonment for burning.«the Coongoola woolshed in 1895. He was also sentenced to death for. tho-murder of a man named Martyr in the'same year at tlio feamo woolshed. .. ... m- • • MAJOR-GENERAL.BABL) T GTON - London, March 27.- ■ Major-General Babington,; who -commanded tlio New Zealand to 1906, has' been appointed"t6 ,i tße'*c6mnmnd ;of tho, Lowland Mounted Brigade of the' Territorial Force,