GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 287, 28 August 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BI TELEGRAPII—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) SPERRY'S OVERDUE COLLIERS. (Rec. August'2B,'o.2,o,a;m.).<-.:r-London;-''August'27? The steamers Baron Minto (from' Baltimore) and British Monarch (from Newport), bound for Auckland, have been reinsured" at ton guineas per cent. They are colliers attached to Admiral Sperry's- fleet. • ; RIFLE-MUFFLER. New YorkrA"uguit~26T Mr. Hiram Maxim's device ; to muffle the reports, of the new riflo recently adopted by the United Stains Army,'has been officially tested. Tho repo'rt was barely audible at 1500 yards. VATICAN AND CUBA. : \ • New York, August, 26,. The" United States pays the Vatican £300,000 indemnity • in connection with ecclesiastical disendowment in Cuba; ' THE KENT MURDER.London, August 26.. Two bullets were extracted from the head of Mrs. Luard (wifo of General Luard)-, ,whq was murdered at Sevenoaks. The doctoV, : .s' of opinion that she was struck' from with a bludgeon, and then shot''as 1 she'lay' stunned.

MINE FLOODED—MEN ESCAPE; ;'•» Hobartj'/,August' 27. ' The Florenco mino at Zeoha-n.was flooded through tho tapping of an.. under-ground reservoir. Tho miners had timely warning, and cscaped. MURDERER SURRENDERS. ■ Perth; August 27. Tho Japanese fisherman Oki, who shot dead a farmer named Shaw, at West Murray, and who then decamped, surrendered to the police. MILE - 'CYCLE TIME. Paris, August 26. Major Taylor, in Paris, cycled a mile, motor-paced, in 93 2-5 (?) seconds—a record. According to Miller's Sporting Pamphlet the record' for-a mllo, paced, standing - start, is uoW by E, Bouhours, Franco—L3Q 2-5,