GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(by TKLEGBArn—rntss association—coptmqht.) COURSING. . (Reo, Hay lj; 0.15, a.m.). : • , Sydnoy, April 30. At .tho National; Coursing Association's meeting, tho Derby was won .by Clear Light, the runner-up being Colston Boy. Tho Oaks was won by Black ' Cygnet, tho runner-up being Faithful Aggy, . . > , VERMIN NOT: WANTED. . •••. Molbourno,-.:April 30: Tho Minister for Customs.has forbidden tho introduction of . stoats and . weasels • into Australia' for tho destruction of rabbits. ; EfING EDWARD AND KING HUMBERT. :• ' ; Rome, April 29. King Edward, Queen Alexandra;' and tho Dowager Empress Mario, of Russia, who axe on a; pleasure; cruiso in the Mediterranean, met tuo King and. Queen of'ltaly on' board tho ! Royal" yacht, Victoria and; Albert., : • THE LONDON BANK FRAUD. ' London, April 29. Bank clerks • have identified the man arrested at Madrid ■aa Windell, charged with swindling tho London and South-Western Bank:in 'September:last. 1 [Last; September eight of ,the south-eastern branohes' of the London and South-Western Bank were made the viotims of fraud which resulted in the loss of £2320. It appears that by the first post on September' 23 the'manager of the branch at Catford received a formal intimation purporting to come from the Harlesdon branch, to the effect that the sum of had been transferred from' a customer, whose namo ivos given. As the form was of tho usual offioial character, and bore the code word of the bank, whioh is altered each; day, 'the notification was accepted; and an account was duly opened. At 11 o'clock the same morning a wellIressed man' drove up to 'the Catford branch, ind'.uked the clerk in oharge whether'a cartuin account had. boon transferred ! from Harlesden.' On being informed that 6uch.-wa< the case, ho went through the usual form o 1 putting; his name in the si'gn*tur«-book,' and then said that he would like to draw a chebut tor -C2CO, and as he was going.; the sajne, aaj to Windsor races, he requested that he mjiW liare the money in small notes and gold. Having' obtained ■ a cheque form, ,tho .'suppomd ilient, who is about 30 years of age, made il payablo to himself, and- signed' "D. Stanlij Wwdell.' No doubt seemed to.' have been entertained by. tho bank officials as to. the' genuineness of the. transaction, and the money wai paid over in X 5 and! JlO. notes, with . J9O ii fold. Leaving Catford the visitor went to sevei jther branches of tl\e bank, including those al Forost Hill, Streatham, Balhani, and Tooting repeating tho process, and obtained tho sam< sum of money in each case. When, on the following day, the manager of. the, Harlesdor branch was informed that!he had boen debitec svith tho • amount of the'cheques the fraud ttoj discovered.] TASMANIAN ELECTIONS-LABOUR ; CONFIDENT. ■■■'_, . . . Hobart, April 30. 'iho goneral elections being hold hero to. lay are conducted under tho Haro-Clark sy* torn. The Labour party is confident of poll ng heavily against tho.Government/. f ACTING-PRIMATE' OP. AUSTRALIA.' , Sydney, April SO. The Bishop of Bathurst. Dr. Camidge wil wt as Primate of Australia (in place of th< ate Dr. .Saumarez/Smith) till a fresh ai> x>intment,js.mftdo.. [The Bishop of Bathurst, who was conscc rated in 1887, is senior bishop.of the Angli jau Church in Australia...' He was bom 11 (838; educated at Oxford; Vicar of Hedon, 1868 Q7? ; ™ i°m, } Vl , loltlrak ti- Yorkshire, 1873 1877; Vicar of Tlursk, 1876-1877; Canon am Prebendary of York, 1882-1887; conweratw Bishop of'Bathurst, 1887. Tho Primato o to bo selected, from among thi Metropolitan bishops, and it is quite porabj. ;hat the Primacy mav be removed from Svdne;o Melbourne or Brisbane, tho only othe' inglican Arohbishoprics in Australia.] RiINDWICK STABBING CASE. -Sydney, April 30. W. N. Willis, who was assaulted on Mon lay night at Randwick, has regained con rciousncsa, but still is' too weak to givo aii' dear account of his experiences, '