GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 504, 11 May 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(by TEIEQEiPH—rBXSS ASSOCIATION—CorTBIGHT.) .■C;-■ y., . THE .QUEEN AT ATHENS ' (Bee. May 10, 10.25 p.m.) ■ Athens,, May 10. Queen. Alexandra and her sister, tho Dowager Empress Marie of Russia, aro at Athens, on a visit to the King of 'Greece. UNPROFITABLE SALVAGE. (Reo. May 10, 11.58 p.m.) London, May 10. ■ : The cruiser Gladiator, which cost £65,000 to refloat after being sunk by the liner St. Paul, has beon sold for £15,125. ' r A WHITTAKER WRIGHT: ESTATE. .London,-May 10. Lord Pirrie has purchased Loapark,. the late Wliittaker Wright's Surrey estate, for £<!00,000. , . : ' ... :. ' STEAMER SINKS WITH TWENTY-ONE ■ ' . ON BOARD. . New York, May 9. Tho steamer Shores sank with twenty-one of the crew nnd passengers, off White Fish Point,. Lake Superior. ■ V.■'■. SIR ROBERT HART INVITED BACK TO .-.china;;London, M*ay 9. Sir-Robert Hart, who was for many years Inspector-General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, has been inyited to return to China. ,;V ;\ t [Sir Robert Hart, now' 74 years .of age, was-Inspector-General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs until 1908, when ho retired after 55 years' unbroken service in China, having j declined the post of .Ambassador. He was among the besieged in the Peking Legations in 1900. He wears aT.C.,' won as a subaltern in the Afghan-campaign. His ancestors have been onobled by the Chinese.]; .. . THE MOTOR-CAR IN; AFGHANISTAN. Kabul, May 9. ; ' The Ameer has imported some motor-cars and a London chauffeuf. ' CONVICT SHOOTS WITNESSES. ' Berlin, ilay 9. Oiitsido the Criminal Court in Berlin a man, who had just been sentenocd to three months' imprisonment for assault, shot with a revolver three railway officers who had given, evidence against,him. One of the victims succumbed. THE KING'S HEALTH. ' 1 London, May 9. King Edward has returned to London from his Mediterranean tour. He is in splendid health. EMPIRE PRESS CONFERENCE. London, May 9. Seventy thousaud troops will be reviowed at Aldershot on June 12, in honour of the visit of tho overseas delegates to tho Imperial Press Conference. THE WILLIS STABBING AFFAIR. . Sydnoy, .May 10. , In connection with the chargo against Daley for attempting to extort money from W. N. Wijlis (who was reported somo days ago to have been stabbed near Randwick racecourse, and to be confined to his room), an order has boon.'made calling upon Willis to appear within threo days to givo. evidence.