GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

— I —*—: — (or Tst.Battipa-pnEsa.issocuTtow-eoi'tiiiariT.l < INDIA: SENTENCE FOR SEDITION.• " Caloutta,'August 18; Ettheraj Surendra Natli Arya 'has • been sentenced to fivo .years' transportation for 'soditious Bpoechos in Madras. DIRIGIBLE BALLOON PURCHASED. (Reo. August 18, 11.15 p.m.) London, August 18. •An American has • purchased Baldwin's! ; dirigible balloon. . AN EMPIRE EXHIBITION. London, August 18. Negotiations aro afoot for making the Colonial exhibits at the Franco-British KxlVk •bjtipn, Shepherd's 1 ,basis,.,of ! ,a' Rritish Empire Exhibition. Canada ,aw .all the Commissioners favour the proposal,' because the present show is considered to bo highly beneficial to Colonial THE KOPENICK FEAt)D:V:pitIS,ONi&; RELEASED.' Barlin, Augustl7.,"', Wilhelm Voigt, who in ; December,:, 1906, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at Berlin for ste,iliilg municipal funds frpni the town of Kopenipk, which hp ohtaincd byposing as a captain of the Footguarda, has been released. Wearing a captain's uniform, and ■bearing" a forged military order, ,Vpigt ordered' eleven Guardsmen (uiider .1 corporal) to arrest tho Mayor of Jvopenick. Such is the powev of the uniform, in Germany that they obeyed;; and Voigt ordered that the Mayor be taken'under guard., to Berlin. Voigt tlle'ii 'di&'ppeaf fed,' taking '1000 marks from tha> Kopenick- municipal safe. DAY BEATS POSTLE OVER QUARTER • MILE, London, August 17. In tho presence, of IS,OOO-ospectators, at Salford, B. R. Day won tho quarter-mile professional championship, of £500, boating A. B. Postle by eight y,irds, in 49 1-5 sec. • OBITUARY. ' • ; Melbourne, 'August 18. .The death is announce 4 of Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, a Legislative Councillor. Sydney, August 18."' ' * Captain Colquhoun, Commander of tho Queensland gunboat Gayundah, died suddenly of heart failure after t)ie vessel arrived to partiojpato iu the welcome to the American Flept. Captain Colquhoun was well-known in Australian naval circles.