GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BT TELEQItAI'H—rUESS ASSOCIATION—COrTttIOIIT.I FOOTBALL AT HOME. London, October 19. Tito football iriatcli between the "Wallabies" 1 (Australian 1 amatours) and a Monmouthshire team was abandoned owing to the i'ontypool ground being under water. ■AUSTRALIA'S TRADE WITH THE EAST. Melbourne, October 20Australian exports to China decreased by £27,37.7> last', year, while -Chinese''eiports to' Australia increased by £10,219. The falling off in tho . Australian exports docs not represent the true position, as quantities of goods enter China via Hong-Kong. BICYCLE RACING ACCIDENTS. Sydney, October 20. During tho bicycle races at Bathurst in connection with the Eight Hour celebration, a series of acoidents occurred. G. H. Horder. the State champion, was badly injured, and Summers (the New Zealrmder) had several ribs broken. [Hordar, the Sydney champion, was in great form recently at the Eight Hour sports in Sydney, winning the mile professional championship and also tho five miles scratch, against interstate performers.] DAMAGE TO UNION COMPANY'S STEAMER. Sydney, October 20.. A survey of the Union Company's steamer Wairuna, which collided with tho Adelaido Steamship Company's steamer Mintaro in Sydney harbour on October 6, shows that nino plates on the Wairuna , wero dented, reaching below the water-line. It is expected that four or five will have to bo replaced. [Tho Mintaro was considerably damaged, her forepeak being Ml of water, and she returned to port; a crew of artificers from the cruiser Gibraltar smartly stopped tho leak with collision mats. At the time of the collision the Mintaro was outward bound, and the Wairuna was shifting to another berth.] HOLMES-ALLEN TROLLY' HEAD. Sydney, Octobor 20. Sydney, October 20. Private advices have been received to the effect that the Holmes-Allen trolly head was awarded the only medal at tho FrancoBritish Exhibition. [This trolley head was invented locally by Messrs. Holmes and Allen, was applied to the local electric tramways, and has been patented all over the world.] OBITUARY, • (Rec; October 20, 11.45 p.m.) Adelaide, October 20. Tho death is announced of the Hon. V. L. Solomon, member of the State Assembly, and a former Premier of South Australia; aged 55 years. [The Hon. Verben Louis Solomon, born at Auelaide on May 13, 1853, son of a former Mayor of Adelaide, was a member 6f the House of Representatives in the first Commonwealth Parliament, and. at the time of his death was a member of tho South Australian Assembly. Ho resided in the Northorn Territory from 1873 till 1890, conducting a mercantile business and editing tho "Northorn Territory Times." He was one of tho first members returned to tho House of Assembly of South Australia for the Northern Territory in IS9O, after it had been declared a separate electorate, and represented the district until ho was elected to tho Federal Parliament in 1901. Ho was Government Whip to tho Playford Government, South Australia, 1890-1, and to the Downer' Government, 1893, and in 1599 was Loader of the Opposition, and for a short period Promior and Treasurer. Ho was a member of the convention which framed the Commonwealth Constitution, 1897-8, and of the House of Representatives, 1901-3, and had been M.H.A. for the Northern Territory since May, 1905.] .