GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 467, 27 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BY TELEOBAPU—FKESS ASSOCIATION— corrKiaiiT.)

BELGIAN MINERS' NINE HOURS. (Rec. March 26, 10.15 p.m.) ' Drussols, March 26. The Belgian Chamber unanimously passed the Miners' Nine Hours Bill. CAPTAIN COOK MEMORIAL. (Rec. March 26, 10.15 p.m.) London, March 26. As tho outcomo of Sir J. H.. Carruthers's proposal, a • goneral committee in connection • with tho Captain Cook Memorial has been formed by the Empire League. Tho Princo of Wales is chairman, Lord Brassey is treasurer, and tho members include the Lord Mayor, Lord Rosebory, Lord Cromer, Air. Asquitli, Lord Rothschild', and Mr. Balfour, also 17 ex-Governors and the Agonts-Goneral Australasia. GUN-CARRYING AUTOMOBILES. Berlin, March 25. Germany is building heavily-armed automobilos,- capable of a high speed, and carrying machino guns, each costing £20,000. RUSSIA AND TIBET. St. Petersburg, March 25. The Public Worship Department of Russia is sending a mission to Tibet. The mission, which will be accompanied by representatives of tho Foreign Office, will study the religious and social life of tho Tibotans. THE AFGHANISTAN PLOT. Calcutta, March 25. Tho arrests at Jcllalabad of persons said to have been concerned in a plot-against the Ameer include high officials and'personal attendants of tho Ameer. There is no indication that the army has been affcctcd. TRADE UNION RESOURCES. j London March 25. There aro 1;973,560 trade unionists in Great Britain. The income of the. unions for tho year was £2,936,095, and the expenditure £2,379,937. Tho accumulated funds at tho end of 1907 were £6,424,176. FAMOUS PUGILIST SEEKS PENSION. Londoi, March 25. Jem. Mace, the • c.vpueilist, appliod for the old age pension at Clerkenwcll. NO RESPECTER OE LEGISLATORS. London, March 25. Owing to influenza among memberß, several of the House of Commons Committees havo been temporarily 1 suspended. BIG MEAT CONCERN. London, March 25. A company, to be known as the Bovril Australian' Estates, Limited, is being formed to acquire tho properties of Mr. Sydney Kidman, "tho Australian Cattle King," and other properties. GOLD' FIND IN A CEMETERY. Sydney, March 26. Stone taken from a claim in tho cemetery at Peak Hill (a mining township 272 miles west of Sydney) yielded three ounces to the ton. Applications for leases covering tho whole cemotery have been made. SOUTH'AUSTRALIAN MINISTRY. Adelaide, March 26. Mr. Willis, a Legislative Councillor, succeeds Mr. Kirkpatrick (who goes Homo as Agent-General) m tho Chief Secretaryship. OBITUARY. Sydney, March 26. The death is announced of Mr. J. H. Gcdiles, who was prominently oonnected with the meat trade. Mr. Geddcs died in England. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOCAL OPTION. Adelaide, March 26. I Thirty-seven hotels in the Metropolitan I District have been closed as the result of tho local option poll two years ago, sirco when there has been much litigation in the matter, including an appeal to the Privy Council.