GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYMOHT. . ' MAITAI SPRINGS A LEAK! ' / - Hobart, May 11. / The Union Company !s new steamer Maitai, which herq,; sprang a; small leak on the passage from Melbourne. ■ • . (Rec. ..May 12, O.SI .a.m:) ' • Melbourne, May 11. Tho Maitai has arrived from Hobart. The cause of the leakage is bclievedito'be .aifractured plate. The vessel, will be docked: to--morrow. ... MRS. HAMILTON'S CONVICTION a' ■ AFFIRMED. : . 1 . ~ London,, May. 10. Tho Court for the Consideration of, Grown Cases Reserved,' consisting of Lord Alvcrstono (Lord Chief Justice) and ' Justices' Ridley,, Darling, Channell, dismissed ' the appeal of Mary Hamilton against her conviction of having ■ committed perjury in the Druce case. The conviction .jfjw affirmed. ,v~"'- '. ' • ' • r ~'- n ' .'v ; :-'y. V A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. New York, May 10: • A-fire destroyed six. business "'blocks "and two hotels, in Alhambra, Georgia.: Tho damago amounts to a quarter, ,of a million ;st«r-, ling. ' 1 . ... ■ - \ • ' > LAWN TENNIS.. . ' , Sydney, May 11. 1 Now South Wales-defeated Victoria ia tho inter-State tennis match by. nine' rubbers, .41 games. The brilliant- ; 'play 'of "'Brookes' (who last year '-'won-? tho Championship 'in.' England) was. a featuro *of t-lio tournament. EARTHQUAKE IN WEST • AUSTRALIA. ; Porth, May 11. A sharp earthquako shock, causing .houses to rock, has been felt in ( the north-west. ■It was accompanied'by h'eifjp rumbling." V'. DROUGHT IN NE)V SOUTH; . WALES,' " . Sydney, May. 11. Numbers of starving stock are reaching tho'Narrabri district from the Rivoriha, 'Itf is stated that as low as a shilling- a head lias been asked for tho starving animals.