GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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•London, March 29.' •' Mr.jEbonezer Cayfqrdj one of tho directors of Houlder Brothers, tho, well-known shipping firm,, is dead. ;• '■ ' - ...•• • • ;; / MOTHERLAND AND .COLONIES. • London, March 30. The Promicr of South Australia, Price, speaking at Whitefields. Tabernaclo, warned Democrats against an olccted second chamber, which might dominate the' House of Commons. Ho 'declared, that tho Labour, party of South Australia had nevor resorted to levelling down. Ho advised England to pay greater attention to the colonies. V " EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE. i j New York, March 30. , : ; , A gas explosion! in the Union Pacific coal mine ,at Hanna, Wyoming, killed two men. A second explosion entombed seventy, who wore trying to seoiirotbo bodies; of tho dead. It s feared that all pf wero smotherdd with afterdamp. . ■ INTER-'VARSITY MEETING. London, March 2D. At • tho intor-'Varsity athletic . meeting, Cambridge won six events, and Oxford four. Robertson, of Adelaide, for Oxford, was 6ooond in the putting the/weight event, and Sutton (Melbourne), for Oxford, third in the milo'. Murray (a colonial), for Cambridge, ' was third in tho hurdles/ ~ , ' '■ . ,; , SYDNEY .ARTIST'S WORK. ; ( London, March 30. "Tho Times," referring to Mr. Francis M'Comass's oxhibition of wator colours at the Carfax Gallery, states that tho works of this young. Sydney artist display very rcmarkablo talent. 'LONDON WOOL SALES. ~ London, March 30. Tho wool sales will close on April 2. i Sydney, March 30.' [ A youth named Robinson, employed on tho j t wharf at Darling Harbour, , has contracted tho plague. l • ■