GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 259, 25 July 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BT TIIEOIUrn—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPT RIGHT. J TO SWIM THE CHANNEL. (Rec. July 24, 10.5. p.m.) London, July 24. After covering 36 miles, J. Wolffe failed in his sixth attempt to swim tho Channel. A COLLISION. London, July 23. The Admiralty Division of the High Court held that the owners of the steamer Rangatira (Shaw, Savill'and Albion Company) were icsponsiblo for the collision' with tho steamer Spero in the Thames in October last, on the ground thn.t tho officers did not render the pilot the assistance - whoreto •ho was entitled. SHUT IN BY BURNING SHAFTS. — London, July 23. A fire in tho wooden framework of two shafts at tho Highhouse Colliery, Auchinleck, South Ayrshire, . Scotland_, imprisoned sixty men, who were in the underground workings. After tremendous labour the firo was extinguished and all the men were rescued: NO NEW BARMAIDS.• • Hobart,. July. 21 Provision is made in-the Local Option Bill that after September only those barmaids then employed will be allowed to remain. No increase in the number will be permitted. GERMAN MOTOR CAR, HAS BIG LEAD. London, July 23. In the New York to'Taris Motor' Race, the German Protos oar has* passed Eydtkuhnen, in Prussia. ■ ; ' The American Thomas car lias reached Moscow, and the Italian , Zust car is. at Tomsk. ... ~. . CASTRO EXPELS DUTCH MINISTER. v Caracas, July 23. , .President Castro hits : 'expelled 'the ' Dutch' Minister from Venezuela.- President Cas'tro recently demanded that moro effectual vigilance should bo exercised over Dutch vessels which assist revolutionaries to escape from La Guayra, the principal port of Venezuela. Holland's reply Wis deemed unsatisfactory by Castro; and'it' is- supposed that this'is the reason why*"the Dutch Minister has been expelled. V.' , ROYAL COMMISSION. Sydney; 'July' 24;' i Giving evidence before tho Federal Postal, Commission, Mr. Young, Deputy-Postmaster-t General, said the stories' of' alleged sweating had been exaggerated. ' .He admitted that 32,000 hours' overtime pay' was "due to tho staff. Ho had been compelled to do clerical work owing to the shortness of the staff, and the Department thus losti* ilia services "as a controller. MR. BRENNAN'S INVENTION. ; \ London, Juiy 23. The Duke of Argyll' inspected at Wobdlands, Gillingham, Chatham, the mono-rail, the invention of Mr. -Louis-Brennanr His Graco was much impressed'by what ho saw. MOORS RELEASE MR. KENNEDY: 1 : Morocco, July 23. The Moors have released Mr. Clark Kennedy, the British subject who was'captured last month near Tangier. In the first place the. Moors, demanded 50,000" dollars ransom. The British' Government liha refused to pay any more ransoms. since the Kaid Maclean incident. .. SIEVIER AND' JOEL. " Lofidon; July 23. Tho trial of R. S. Sievier, committed on a chargo of threatening to publish defamatory articles concerning J.' B. Joel, with intent to extort money; will take " place on Monday next. ■ REPATRIATION "OF KANAKAS. : | ■ Brisbane, July 24. Official returns show' that 4200 Island labourers have been returned to their homes, and that about 1000 were granted certificates enabling them to remain .in tho . Commonwealth. ;: SYDNEY STOCK MARKET. ' ~:sydnay, July 24. Owing to shortness. of-fat stock in Victoria, southern buyers aro operating on a large' scale in the Sydney market. High prices are. being realised. HANDSOME DONATION TO Y.M.C.A. ■ v 1...". Perth, July 24. Mrs. Oliver has given land valued at £5000 .for a sito for tho Young Men's Christian Association.