GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

' c ,nr TELEGRAM! —PIiESB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT SPAN'S WAVY. (Rcc.,April i iS;-''4.lS p.m.) , v." London/ April 18., Japan 'is rearming,:thei:captured Russian j.warships with heavier guns.' .' ,- : / Silt, H. " ' .April ,18.. ~ King Edward drove ti Downing Street,' . aaid inquired as to thb health of Sir H. Canipbell-Bannerman. OSMAN DIGNA. " . Cairo, April 17. O&rhan Digna, the notorious lieutenant of the Isito Khalifa of the Soudan;-who was-im-prisoned at Damuka, has gone mad. , (lie .declines that th'o English" arG Gbd's scourge, and 'must be obeyed :by'Moslems. SHIP-BUILDING IN ENGLAND. London, April 17. The keel of the Orient Company's r2,U00ton mail steamer entrusted, to -the - Fairfield Company arid John Brown and Co., Clyde Bank, lias been completed. The keel of the steamer heing built by the London and Glasgow Engineering Company at Govali is-well advanced/ 'Workinan, Clark, and Co., of Belfast, have iio slip available at present, but are •collecting rftatoriall i'J'. .' . THE AMUR, RAILWAY. St., Petersburg, April 17. ■ The Amur railway from Kujenga. to Khabarmosk wilt cost twenty-ono,and a half 'millions sterling, or £16,600 per mile. It must bs built entirely with - Russian ■ materials and by Russian labour. , • -- V" ' THE SYDNEY SHOW. Sydnoy, April 18. As a result of the rain yesterday, the takings at the show were 'Only.£slo, as compared with over £3000las£ year. A SPLENDID REPAIRING FEAT. Sydnoy, April 18. The steamer Karori, which met with an accident, has arrived hero in tow of the, tug Advance. The-broken portions of the shaft were joined by means of clamps..' The "engineering staff, under great difficulties,' succeeded in carrying out a splendid repairing feat, and afterwards covered 210 miles under thirty-lwo hours.