GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 254, 20 July 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Dt TELEOIIAPn—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrT RIGHT.) A.M.P. LONDON DIRECTORS. (Kec.' July 19, 4.30 p.m.) . London, July 18. , : Tho Australian Mutual I'rovident -Society has appointed .the following London directors:—Sir Henry Seymour King (chairman), the Earl of' Jersey, tho . Hon; Herbert 0. Ciibbs, and Sir John Cockburn. The Australian Mutual: Provident Society soyie time' ago decided to extend its business to the United Kingdom, and sinco it won tho : recent Privy Council appeal in tho case brought to prevent tho extension, there is no further obstacle to the carrying out of the policy as indicated in the cablegram. ■ Sir Henry Sey- : niour. King is a Well-known banker, is head of Henry. S. King and Co. and other firms, and has been Conservative M.P.. for Central Hull silice 1885. The Earl of Jersey is. a former Governor of New.South Wales, the Hon.iHer.bert C. Gibbs is partner in the firm of Anthony Gibbs and Sous, and .Sir John Cockburn, a former South Australian Premier, is chairman of the Australasian -Chamber of Commerce in London".' , HEAT IN SYDNEY. 1 - 1 Sydney, July 19. Tho weather to-day was warm. Tho shade temperature „was 71.9. This, is one of the liottest July days experienced for forty-nine years.. ' 7 THIRTEEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING. t Paris, July 17. .; Lightning killed thirteen persons out' of fourteen on•; a•• farm : at St.'Christophe,; France, i' ' ; .; USING AXE TO OPEN DETONATORS. ■ „ s New York, July 17. : A box of detonating caps , that had been • lauded from the Hamburg-American steamer, Bethaiiia exploded while a'Customs officer at.Boston was trying to open it Vith an axe.' The explosion' killed him as well as aij, inspector and a warehouseman. Several, by-. standers were injured. ' ••• • ' LEMOINE DIVORCED. Paris, July 17. ' . : Madame Lemoine, wife v of Lemoiue, tho , French engineer who professed to be able to | manufacture .diamonds —and for., whose I arrest, 1 on a charge of obtaining money -under i false pretenccs, a warrant was issued last • month—has obtained a divorce from her hus- \ band. ; RICH GOLD REEF IN AN ALLUVIAL .DISTRICT. Melbourne, July 18. A rich gold reef has been discovered at Homebush, on tho Maryborough-Ararat Rail- ' wuy, _ 123J' miles north-west of Melbourne. The reof'is 3ft. wide. A dish yielded 60oz. of gold. THE SERVANT GIRLS AND THE FLEET. " . , Melbourne, July 18. i There is reason to believe that a movement is afoot among domestic servants to quit servico during tho week tho American fleet is here, and to take up work again when tho | festivities are over.

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