GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 298, 10 September 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(by telegraph—press, association—copyright.) I SOUTH 'AFRICAN UNITY: CRUISER SQUADRON. (Rec. September 10, 0.30 a.m.) London, September 9. Roar-Admiral Sir Percy Scott's squadron of first-class cruisers, which is to visit South African ports during tho sittings of tho Federal Convention, has sailed from Portsmouth for South Africa.' Rear-Admiral Sir Percy Scott commands the First Cruiser Squadron, and his flagship is the Good Hope, 11,100 tons. Ho is the man who got the naval guns up to Ladysmith during the war. • CHINESE ON THE RAND. Johannesburg, September 0. Returns show that there are 17,000 Chinese on tho Rand. LABOUR DAY IN AMERICA. London, September 8. Unusually largo orderly Labour Day anni- . versary processions were held in Now York, Chicago, and Boston, also in various centres in Canada. KING EDWARD. London, September 8. King Edward, who has just roturned from the Continent, attended the races at Doncaster. SWIMMER BEAUREPAIRE. London, September 8. Frank E. Beaurepaire, tho Australian champion, swam a quarter of a mile at Govan in smin. 28 3-ssec. —a Scottish record. BILLIARDS CONTROL CLUB. London, September 8. A Billiards Control Club has been formed , by leading amateurs,' with tho support of the . principal makers. The object is to endeavour ; to do for billiards what tho Marylebone Club does for cricket. The committee includes tho Duke of Rutland, and Earls De Grey and i Lonsdale. ( | BISHOP OF NEW GUINEA RESIGNS, i London, September 8. ' The Anglican Bishop of Now Guinoa (Dr. | Stono-Wigg, who was appointed in 1898) has resigned, owing to ill-health.