GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 301, 14 September 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

jtßy TEIEGJSAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIOBT.) CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. , . . (Reo. September 12, 7,55 p.m.) London, September 11. Thirty-seven : cases of cholera, and 12 deaths, are reported at St. Petersburg. CLOSER, SETTLEMENT IN CAPE . COLONY. '' /Capetown, September 12. A motion of . Mr. Jagger (cabled on August 5) favouring a scheme of closer settlement, similar to schemes adopted in Australia, was adopted by the -Cape Colony .Assembly. Parliament was subsequently prorogued. >: . . ■ SOLAR observatory; (Rep. September 13, 4.30 p.m.) London, September 12. The British Association has formed an 1 influential committee to aid in establishing a solar observatory in Australia. Sir David pill is chairman, and ]Vlr. W. G. Duffield, pf Adelaide, secretary, . : TURKISH AMNESTY UPHELD. Constantinople, September 11. Silvio Ricter, who is believed to have been poncerned in the attempt to kill the Sultan /as he was'leaving his mosque jn July, 1905, and lyho, relying on the recent amnesty, returned to Constantinople, was arrested; but Jibs now been released. It is held that he is included in the amnesty. SOUTH AFRICAN TRIP: EXTENSION .. ' PROPOSED. London, September 11. "The Time?" suggests that Sir Percy (3cott|s cruiser squadron the Good Hope (flagship), Antrim, Carnarvon, and Devour phire—which is to visit Capo Colony, should afterwards proceed to Australia. ' CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP. (Rec. September 14, 1.7 a.m.) Sydney, September 13. The five miles cross-country championship pf Australia was won by Huffran '(Victoria), Time, 32mjn. 30sec.