GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 220, 10 June 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

61 lELIIGUAPU —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFTMQnT FIRST AID CONFERENCE. (Rec. June 9, 10.45 p.m.) ' I ' - ' Berlin,., Juno .!). Nine hundred delegates are attending the International First Aid Conference at Frankfort. Now South Wales exhibits of model of appliances used in accidents attracted much attention, ; BANK HOLIDAY. London, Juno 9. 1 The weather was "fine and' c'ool for the Bank holiday (Whit Monday)., ..The FrancoBritish Exhibition was visited ,by 350,000 people. • MURRAY r. "THE TIMES." London, June 8. ; " Tho Times " has withdrawn its appeal in tho Murray libel case^ Mr. John Murray, publisher, obtained from "The Times" .£7500 damages for a libel contained in a.letter publishes} in "Tho Times," signed "Artifex," alleging that Mr. Murray was publishing the ."Letters., of. Queen Victoria" at an exorbitant price to. the jmblio. Wrote "Artifex": "He lias, exploited the'great personality of Queen Victoria tor his own ends, and coined the national interest in her doings for his own enrichment into-32 pieces of silver to ba precise.", ! The ground of tho i appeal, now withdrawn, was that tho damages were excessive.

' EMPIRE DAY. v ■ : Lonrionj .June 8. The Earl of Meath, president of the Empire League, states that 121 mayors," 14,000 elementary schools, and - two and a quarter million scholars . celebrated Empire Day' in Britain. . . - MURDERER IMPRISONED. Berlin, Juno 8. • The murderer Heidert. has been sentencsd to ten years' imprisonment. , Heidert is a degenerate. He murdered a youth, whose dissectcd remains , were found wrapped in lan apron, which Heidert's wife, an inmate of a hospital, identified'as belonging to her. ■ A Berlin crdjvd attempted ,to lynch tho murderer. ' - , - ' AUSTRALIA AND THE EASTERN MARKETS. vf Sydney, June 9. In connection with tho how Dutch steam servico' with Java," tho Tice-Cohsul of tho Netherlands claims that Sydney is assured of - a splendid permanent ; market in the East. .

' FIRES.; - Sydney, Juno 9. A firo at Tingha, about 418 miles north of Sydney, destroyed five shops, and another at Browarrina, 60 miles east of Bourke, four shops.