GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Ibl TELBa&Arit—FEES3 ASSOCIATION —COPTBISIIT.) i MR. J.' C, WATSON IN SOUTH AFRICA. (Reo. January 29, 9.60 p.m.) / # Johannesburg, January 29. i Prominent Australians and members of | the Labour party' m Johannesburg warmly | ■welcomed Mr. J. C. Watson, ex-Premier of I the Commonwealth,'on 1 his arrivaLhoro. INDIAN BOMB-MAKERS. ' * Calcutta, January 29. '-1 Three Hindu students at Kolbapur hare I been sentenced to four jears' imprisonment | for stealing explosives to make bombe. j LORD RAYLEIGH ILL. London, January 29. The "Daily Telegraph" states that Lord I Rayleigh is seiiQUsly ill, ■ i . [Lord Eayleigb, aged 66 years, is dietiatruished as a mathematical and experiment'l physicist. In 1901 he uas awarded the Nobel prize in physics.] ' / REPTJBLIC-FLORIDA COLLISION. ' New York, January 29. The owners of tho Whito Star liner Rβ-, publio, the 15,300-ton steamer that was sunk by the Florida, are claiming £300,000 damages from the owners of tho Florida. BOMBS IN SIBERIA. St. Petersburg, January 28. Six large bombs have been found in +ho Technical Institute at Tomsk, one of the chief towns in Siberia. A FRENCH MURDERESS. „, . ' - Paris, January 28. ! Mane Gilbort, a farmer's wife, has been sentenced to penal servitudo for life at the ' Cher assizes, in France, for poisoning her mother-in-law and cousin, and attempting to murder four others. Her motive was to inherit their savings and property, » PIGOTT NOT UNFROCKED. > i "London, January 28. ' Great surprise has beon expressed that Dr. Kennion, Bishop of Bath and Wells, has only deprived John ■■, Smith Pigott (of Agapomone fame) of a charge, and not unfrocked him. | ' A CHARITABLE BEQUEST. ' London, January 28. Ont of his estate of £311,742, Mr. Josiah Vavasour, one.' of the directors of tho Arm-strdng-Wnitworth Company, bequeathed to oharities £150,000, with a residue for tho same purpose. CONTRADICTIONS. , London, January 28. Tho announcement mado in Madrid that King Edward and Queen Alexandra would shortly visit Spain is officially contradicted in London. , Tho Colonial Office denies that Sir Gerald Strickland has been appointed to succeed Sir Harry Raivson as Governor of New South Wales. \ MANSION HOUSE FUND. , London, January 29. The Mansion House fund ' has reached £125,000. SENTENCES 'FOR ILLEGAL GOLDBUYING. (Rec. Jauuary 29, 11,55 p.m.), Melbourne, January 29. W. G. Ashman, a leading business man of Bendigo, has been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for illegal gold-buying. Two others wero sentenced to four months' imprisonment for a similar offence. HEAVY DAMAGE TO A CARGO. Brisbano, January 29 Ihe fire on the North German Lloyd steamer Tubingen has beon extinguished, it is behoved that a thousand' bales of wool and 250 tons of wheat have beon deshoyed.