GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 589, 18 August 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Toloßrepb.-Presa Ajso<:latlon.-OopyrlEt!t,i ARGENTINA' AND AMERICAN CATTLE. '■'. ■ ;. - Buenos Ayres, August ,16. '. Tho Argentine Government has annulled, tho : decree prohibiting .tho importation of American cattlo into the Republic. "MOTOR-CAR: FATALITY IN SAN ";;. ■:■ :■;:.. MARINO., ~,. '.• ;'.:.'- '...'" Rome, August 16. A' motor-car fell, into a ravine at; San Marino,, in North-eastern Italy Five Italians who,, were'in the car wore killed. .'■ ;■ [San' Marino, area 23 square miles, is one of the smallest and most ancient States in Europe. It is situated in ■ north-east Italy, enclosod by the provinces Forli, Besano, and Urbino. The State consists of a craggy mountain 2420fr. in height (on whioh is the-town), nnd some circumjacent territories with four or fiv« villages. The population, about 6000; is ohiefly occupied, in agrioulturo and cattle trading. The legislature of the Republic is a Senate-of sixty members, elected for? life equally from:: the. ranks' of nobles, citizens, and peasants. Two presidents are chosen by the Senate every ' six months. From tho 10th to the 13th centuries the inhabitants'Of San Marino succeeded: in ; maintaining their independence. Another tiuj- flcpublie, the Pyreuean State of Andorra, lying between the French department of Arie'go and: the Spanish province of Leridtt, has un area of 175 square miles.] ■'•'.'■

: 'EX-MINISTEIi SUES FOR LIBEL. •'■ '. '■■■' Molbourns, August 17. . _ Mr. G. Swinburne, member of tho. Victorian; Assembly, has commenced an' 'action .Pgaiiist tho "Age" newspaper, claiming £5000' damages for alleged" libil contained in criticisms of his administration when'-ho was. State Minister for Water Supply. '■■ ILLICIT- OPIUM: STATE SERVANTS ,; ;.■■;■■ charged. . •, , '■'■■•:> (Rec:August: 18, 0.35 a.m.)' : .;. ~ SydriDy, August 17. Dansey ajid Lovo, Customs ofiicers, and Wicldiam,;,a. policeman, havo Uen ■ committed for ; trial ■on .a. charge: of .opium smuggling. The. principal Chinese ' witness declared that he received opium from some Customs officialsfother than the accused. ; .-.■■•• ';"■ ■■'■' obituarv. -J .- : ; -.'*,''' ,/, Sydney, , August 17. ■ KT 'Tho CT Hon\y.| J. Foster, ex-judgo of the New South Wales; Supreme Court, 1 is dead at the age of 79. . . : . ■.. .■ ' • %i - ? ?r % thes ; r - County loath, Ireland, in 1831,--Mr. Wm. John Foster arrived in Sydney inlßsl, and was called to the Bar seven years later. According to "Johns's Notable Australians, in 1577 he.was appointed Attor-ney-General; in the Farnell Administration with a soat in the Legislative Council. A year later be'retired with his' colleagues, and subsequently;: was elected to the Assembly ' He was Minister for Justice in the Pnrkes Ministry, from 1881 to 1883, and was Attorney-Gene-ral under Sir Honry Parkcs from January 1887 till February, IS3B, when he resigned. 'Later in the same jear he was-raised to the Supremo. Court Bench. He Retired in 189 i.] • ■ i LEAGUE MATCH POSTPONED. ',„,'-■•- Sydney, August 17. .The. football ir.alch Maoris y. New South nales, which'was fixed for to-morrow has been' pospoucd till the following daJ "' '' "' i "