GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 242, 6 July 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) •. HOT WEATHER AT HOME.. (Reo. July 5, 4.30 p.m.) ' London,. .July 4. The thermometer registered ■ 84 in th< shade in London on Friday. Heavy thunderstorms have been experienced in. the south of England! FIGHTING JN PERSIA. Teheran,, July 3. Severe fighting is in progress at Tabriz, It is not' believed iliat Europeans .are it danger. MOROCCO-A QUESTION OF RANSOM. > ■'' ■' 'London, July 3. The' captors of Mr. Clark Kennedy—a British subject who was taken near Tangier; and whoso kidnappers.. demandso,ooo dollars ransom—have been informed that Great Britain will not pay a'peiiiiy. ' The British Government gave'notice, "after Kaid Maclean's release;'that it'wOijld'pay no more ransoms. British subjects in : Morocco are indignant. IN HONOUR OF'THE ENTENTE." ; London, July 3. I As a token of attachment to tho ; FrancoBritish ontonto, Sir John Tollemacho Sinclair (a Scottish baronet and big land-owner, formerly Liberal member for Caithness) has .presentetd to the Louvre; .through MJ -Yves Guyot, Murillo's painting, of . " Christ with tho Crown of Thorns, " formerly in tho Beresford Hope collection. ■ - : . Tho famous Spanish.; painter, Murillo (bom 1018, died 1682), was a student of Velasquez, and chiefly chose religious subjects. Among his ' works are—"Moses Striking the Rock, "The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,"/ and "Abraham and the Angels."' . There: is a list of 481 of his pictures, nearly 200 of- which are in England, about 60 in' Seville,' 2l' in. , Paris, 21 in-Russia, and-a" certain'number in tho United States. • .-• . AQUATICS. • London, July 3. Christ Church beat Eton'in tho final for the Grand Challongo-Cup at Honley. . Alexander M'Culloch, of University College, Oxford, won tho finai in'tho Diamond Sculls, boating A. Stuart. ■ ' GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. : . London, July 3. A Treasury statement shows that tho various Government departments, hold 200 million sterling of Government securities, including 158 million 92} per cent, consols, and 25 million of capital value annuities.