GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

- V—. ; ; . by rELEGnApn—PiifeßS-Association?—doPYmcHi AMERICA'S NATURAL': RESOURCES. / ' (Rec.' . , . : New York, May 16. The conference conr'eiied'-' by'" President Roosevelt at Washington,'for the purpose of considering measures for the conservation'of, tho country's natiu-alfresourcos '(timber, iron, coal, soils, 'a declaration of principles, and' suggested tho summoning of a future conferonco.to deal with specific questions. , COTTON SPECULATOR CLEARS - £100,000. ••.. .• ;■ .- ! New.'Vork, May 16. ' A speculator named Littlemoro,. profiting by' rumours that- hoi was; attempting to " corner ". July cotton, . quietly sold cotton to alarmed speculators-in Ne.w: .York; yester-, day, netting '£100,000. '~ . ;- ,A. . -.- ... • CAR-DRIVERS? ;'y. : MOTOR! 'BUSMEN. A | London, May 15. f The car-drivors at' Dublin; assaulted tho' , motor-'busnicn 1 there because omnibuses ,wero brought froni London.!" Serious fighting followed, and many arrests were made. ' , MR. BENT'AND . THE LADIES. Molbourno, May 16. Tho Women's Suffrage Committee has adopted an appeal, to. electors to call upon Mr. Bent to resign the Premiership for blocking women's.', 'suffrage,...and. insulting their womenfolk by. contemptuous references, to the movement in tho' House. MOTOR FATALITY. Melbourne, May 16. The motor car of Mr. A. Clark,- tho wellknown mining engineer, came,into collision' witii a fence. Mr. Clark was killed, andHall (the cbntfeur) badly injured.