GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BT TELEQEAPn—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrtEIOHT ) PANAMA CANAI!

(Rec, February 2, 11 25 p m.)„ NOW -York, February-2 Col Goethals, Chief Engincor of 1 tho Panama Canal, has informed the Presidentelect, Mr. Taft, that snips will pass through | the canal in January,-1915. |The same statement, on the authority of Col, Goethals, has been appearing in the American and European press for months.} COMPULSORY WIRELESS. Paris, February 1. The paper "La Matin" says that M Crupp;, Frenoh Postmaster-Genoral, will introduce a Bill providing for the compulsory installation of othergraph apparatus on all mail steamers of a certain tonnage. - SOMALI MULLAH DEFEATED. London, February 1. The Sultan of Obbia heavily defeated the Somali Mullah, whose lato aggression necessitated the increase of the British forcoß. MEDICAL REPORT ON CANNED MEATS. London, Fobruary 1. Tivo of tho Local Government Board doctors, after a special investigation, report that though canned .meats are to somo extent contaminated by tin-plate, thero is not much probability of serious risk of poisoning therefrom. BANK OFFICIALS ARRESTE.D,_ London, February 1. Tho manager and five direotors of the Mutual Bank of Glasgow, which suspended in Novomber, 1906, have been arrested, charged with embezzlement and uttering ,false. bal-ance-sheets. —■ — -i u, Jvi ' unT RAIN IN, NEW SOUTH WALES. , Sydney, February 2. Heavy rain is falling over a wjdo area, n '