GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 332, 20 October 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BT TELEGHAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOIIT.I MR. ROOSEVELT AND VOTES FOR WOMEN. ' 1 ' ' "• (Ree. October 19, 10.45 p.m.) New<:York,' October. 19. " President Roosevelt informed the Women's Suffrage Congress that- a'petition with-a 1 million signatures would" not. ;induce liim to recommend Congress to enfranchise women. LAST BALLOON FOUND: OCCUPANTS MISSING. ' London) October 18. The last —the sixth—of tho balloons that camo to grief in the Gordon Bennett race lias been found in tho .North Sea 100 miles north of the Island of. Heligoland. The car had been cut away from tho netting. There was no traco of tho occupants. RE-BUILDING'OF FERNIE. Victoria, 8.C., October 18. The town of Fernie, British Columbia, recently destroyed by bush fires, is., rapidly rising from its ashes. All the permanent buildings will be re-erccted before Christrnas. " ■ • ■ CHOLERA IN THE PHILIPPINES. Brisbane, October 19. Advices by the Japanese mail steamer chow that cliolera is. very bad at Manila. It is estimated that the deaths among the natives number a hundred daily. .... MURRAY WATERS PROBLEM./ Melbourne, October 19; " A conference of the Premiers of Victoria, New South Wales, arid South Australia; commenccd on Saturday to reconsider the Murray waters question. j ;• OPIUM SMUGGLING. • . , Melbourne, October 19.

The Federal Customs authorities . ..seized four cases by the steamer Aldejiliara];- which: were found to contain over- ,£2OOO worth of opium. The cases were ..marked ''curios.!' COST OF REPRESENTATION' AT BISLEY. Melbourne, October 19. The Federal Government has provided only £1000 towards the' cost of, sending a team to Bisley next year;,.''Unless'a,further £1000 is forthcoming "it will bo impossible to send one.

BRAYBROOK DISASTER CLAIMS. -

Melbourne, .19. To-day was the last day on* which'claims' could be made against''the' Railway. Commissioners for compensation b connection with the disastrous railway collision at Braybroolc (Sunshine). Altogether 50 cases have been listed, and the total .of "the claims is £75,000. ; 1 a-'.ii '■ :

MEDICAL CONGRESS OPENS. < ;!■

Melbourne, .October" 19. f

Tho Medical Congress has opened.' All the States and New Zealatid are'strongly!represented. The Conference: adopted a resolution of regret at the death of. Sir ThoS".' Fitzgerald;: and expressed appreciation; of his'services'to' the medical profession and to science.' ' '-*

[The late Sir ThomsjsyNaghten Fitzgerald, who died in July, arrived "in Melbourne from Ireland in 1858, and had.bcen hon. surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital since 1860. Ho wrote numerous papers on surgical-subjects.] VICTORIAN MINfSIrisii.'RESIGNS. Melbourne, October 19. Sir Alexander Peacock, Chief' Secretary and-' Minister for Labour,, has jresjgned vont l;he: ground of ill-health. .IV.tlxi

[Sir Alex. Peacock, 47-'years'of age, and Vic-torian-born, has repeatedly,..held. Ministerial, rank in the State of Victoria since 1890,. and in 1901-2 was Premier. Some time'ago hedod a .third party, and its fusion' with.'the'-Be'nt-fol-1 lowers was held to hay.p P .gr,eatly.,strengthened,! the Victorian Government:,! \He was a. 'memben for Victoria of the National.' ConS:ention'Jthat framed the Commonwealll^.potistitution.]^/