GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 471, 1 April 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(IIY TEI.F.GRAI'II —PRESS ASSOOIATIOK—COVYItIGIIT.) THE SUDAN CONTINGENT. (Rec. March 31, 10 p.m.) London, March 31. In connection with the Dreadnought movement in the colonies, the "Daily Telegraph" recalls the contingent which Now South .Wales sent to t.lio Sudan. [In 1835 New South Wa'es organised a con- i tingent which arrived at Suakin on March 30 of ; •that year. At Sydney l»v February 23, 1885, dCUO.OfH) had been subscribed for tiio purpose, and it was increased to .£15,000 by March 3.] , SOUTH AFRICAN UNITY. Capo Town March 31. Special sessions of the South African Parliaments (Capo Colony, Transvaal, Natal, and Orange River Colony) will be epened to consider the new Constitution drifted by the South African Convention oil the basis of unilieation. ROOSEVELT'S ASSAILANT AN ITALIAN ANARCHIST. London, March 30. Tlio man who nssanltH ex-IVosident lloosovelt on the steamer between New York and tlio Azores, en route to Italy mid Africa, was an Italian anarchist, • and a iirst-class passenger. [The attempt made by Mr. Roosevelt's assailant was frustrated, and tho man was placed in irons. Not long ago a Alalia gang at Palermo, in Sicily, murdered an American dotectivo named Pctrosini, an investigator of tho "Black Hand" organisation, who is said to have done more than. any man in tho United States to bring Italian criminals to justice. Subsequently (March 10) it was cabled from Rome: "The Italian police aro in a slate of trepidation owing to the intention of ex-Pre-sident lloosovelt and his wife and three children to visit Messina (Sicily), which is a stronghold of tho Mafia:"] ROWING. London, March 30. G. E. Fnirbairn, of Victoria, who was io liavo been bow in the Cambridge crew in tlio Oxford-Cambridge boat race, has retired owing to an attack of influenza. OIUTUARY. London ( March 30. Sir Charles, Cecil Stovi-ns, a retired member of tho Indian Civil Soirioo, died suddenly • outsido his residence in Redclitl'o Square. [Sir Charles Cecil K.C.5.1.. was born on July 5, 28(0. being second son of tlio lato Mr. 0. G. Slovens, of Melbourne, Victoria. He was educa'.ed at Kdpbaston Proprietary School and other schools, and nt the University of Melbourne. KiileSit;? the Indian Civil Servico in ISOO, ho iwn to the position of Chief Secretary to tlio Government.. For three terms tie was an additional member of tho Viceroy's Council, and in 1.59? offieialod as Lieutenant-Governor of D:ni?al. In ISM ho rotiroi, and was knighted in 15119.]