GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 272, 10 August 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(nr TKi.EonAPH—press association—cornnaaT.l FREETRADE. (Rec. August 9, 4.30 p.m.) London, August 8. Tho Freetrade Congress lias appointed an international committee to pronioto Freetrade. FIRE SWEEPS A GERMAN TOWN. Berlin, August 7. A fire destroyed one hundred and fifty houses in Donauesehingen, a town of some five thousand inhabitants thirty miles east of Freiburg. Two thousand persons have been rendered homeless. There is niuclr distress. YACHT SUNK AT COWES. London, August 7. ' During the racing at the Cowes .Regatta, ■tho Marquis of Ailsa's yacht Bloodhound fouled L'Esperance. The former sank. Many j'achts, including King Edward's, sent their launches to rescue Lord Ailsa and his'friends. THE VETERAN ALERT. London, August 7. , Tho medical journal " Lancet'" says that Mr. Chamberlain's medical advisers consider he has greatly improved. He is keenly interested in politics,' and his mind is as alort as ever. EDWARD THE PEACEMAKER. 0 London, August 7. King Edward reviewed the Channel Fleet at Portland, and lunched with Lord Charles Beresford, the Commander-in-Chief. RELIQUARY STOLEN. Paris, August 7. A reliquary valued at £12,000 was stolen from the Church of Saint Vianca, Bordeaux. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. -Melbourne, August 8. Mr. John Smith died at Farnham, aged 104 years. This is the fifth Australian centenarian whose passing lias been recorded within three months. EXIT THE BARMAID. Hobart, August 8. Tho Assembly passed the Licensing Bill. It alters the ljours of closing to 11 o'clock, and prohibits the employment of barmaids, except those at present employed. TEST CRICKET. Melbourne, August 8. In accepting the Marylebone Club's invitation to an Australian team to visit England in 1909, 'the Board of Control has suggested rests before and after test matches. To permit this it would bo neccssary to do away with long journeys or all-night travelling on the eve of the tests. The above message explains the recently cabled remarks of the London "Sportsman," which says it is difficult to see how rests can be arranged before the Anglo-Australian test matches, in view of the magnitude of the county championship programme. The "Sportsman" thinks the only way would bo to commence all tho tests on a Monday, giving a rest on Sunday. It is an open question, the paper adds, whether the Australians would he prepared to rest ou three consecutive days when there was the prospect of a good gate. MISS ADA CROSSLEY. J London, August ?. Miss Ada Crosslcy and party sailed by. the Orontcs. The eminent singer had enormous audiences at her closing provincial conrwis. Seven thousand were present at Llandudno, Carnarvonshire, Wales.

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. Melbourne, August 8. Yachtsmen at Port Philip havo offored to form a naval reserve for dcfenco purposes. A body of three hundred men. who served in tho Boor War will also form themselves into n corps, to bo known as "The South African Reserves."