GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 290, 1 September 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BT TEMMRArH— rRESS-'jASJOCIATIOS—COPIRIODT.) . SHELL EXPLODES: FIVE DEATHS. J Copenhagen, August 30 ; A premature explosion of- a • shell-during gun praetico aboard the Danish cruiser Hekla at Aarhus, on the eaßt coast of Jutland,^ killed five men and wounded several. - AERONAUTICS:. ZEEPEBIN. PUNP. .. . Berlin, August 30. The Zeppelin fund Lhas ..Inched! £150,000. UNITED STATES ATHLETES. New York, August 30. A procession of 25,000 persons marched to the New York City Hall:.tp:-welcome, the American athletes who took ptirt in the Olympic games at Shepherd's Bush. Each athlete was presented" with a gold medal.' Hayes, Carpenter, and. Bobbins received silver cups. TWELVE THOUSAND MILES ON A WHEEL.. ~i V( . Adelaide, August'3l= * The cyclist Birtlesjms arrived .from Port Darwin. He has "cycled' 12,G^/imiles'.sineo' 1 he left Perth ahout,;tn'6' l yeafs..'iife6. PAItEORA-COL'AC COLLISION;-'\ '' ~ sydrtey,'Augiist' 31 J .' : Further details of the collision"St."the Heads early on Saturday morning,' between tho collier Pareora (650 tons) aucl'thq rsteamer Colac (1480 tons), which,, resulted in a large hole being torn in the'Cola'c's'port bow,-show that the stem of the'Pareora was smashed. ' - i—V- ; -

Until a couple of months ago the collier Paro'ora was under tho Blackball Coal ■Company's flag, and was engaged in the Greyriiouth; Wellington and Lyttelton running. She changed hands, her: ijeiv being, the; Southern' Collieries Association-. - 'The Parcora,which was built in I§9G ; Avas, capable of .steam-, ing 9 knots and carried about"7so 'tons oi coal. To replace tho Pareora the Blackball- 1 Company 'have had built for ..them a first-qlass, collier with a carrying' capacity of 1500 tons! The new vessel is now en.routs..from_EnglancL to the Bluff. ■