GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

-'I ■ i 1 —— '7. ■ I. ; BY TELEGIUPH—TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYHIGHT. ■ ' FINANCIERS.AND ANARCHISTS. (Roc.' April 2, 9.58 p.io.) New York, ApriJ 2., . All exchanges in New ,York havo closed ' fcho visiting gallovifs. It •is boliftred ihat Anarchist, threats' renderedit advisable to osoludo stra'ngers : . ; V /■. PRIME .MINISTER'S HEALTH. : : Lcmion, April 1. '• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannehiian slept well | ■last night. : general. condition is• moro favourable: ■ ' : ■ : 1 ■ ' RAILWAY CLERK ABSCONDS. . i Rome, April 1., ■ Giomatta,; a railway clerk at Chiasso, in tho canton of Ticino, Switzerland, abscondod with'£7ooo. ' ;; ' ' ; SUCCESS OF' A COLONIAL ORGANIST. ; London, April 1. , Mr. Sidney ; Nicholson, a Sydneyitoj' and ■son/o{. i Sir > Charles Nicholson, formerly Speaker of tho'New South Wales Assembly, has been appointed, organist ! to Canterbury Cathedral out' of orio hundred candidates. OBITUARY. London, April 1. Mr. Prideaux Selby, n,_ director •of tho .Bank- of Australasia) is dead. '. - . CHARGES OF CORRUPTION.- : • Melbourne, April 2. 'Select oommitteos havo been appointed by both Federal Houses to inquire into chargos that, 1 in connection with the,oil duties, the votes of • somo members were'bought during tlie course of the tariff debate. ' FEDERAL TARIFF. Melbourne, April 2. Tho Fodoral Sena.to'has finishod debating the tariff, whioh will bo sent'baok to the Houso with 350 .requests. ' SUBSIDISED SERVICE: SYDNEY TO SINGAPORE." Sydney, April 2. As 'a result of increased , subsidy, tho North-German Lloyd steam service' betweon • Sydney : and Singapore, abandoned some years ago, will bo resumed. . HIDES MARKET. ' : Melbourne, April 2. 'In the hides market all classes are very firm. i