GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

UJy Tcleffraoti.'l're&B ABsocl&ll<>u.'-Cop?rtcM i. / ■■, . EX-SHAH QUITS PERSIA. Teheran, September 10. .'The, ex-Shah,' Mohammed' Ali Mirza,' who has been deposed and granted a pension, has left Persia. -v ROBBERY AND MURDER IN. RUSSU. St. Petersburg, September 9.: ■"A. masked gang robbed: the post office.at , Midss (?),• in tho government >of Orenburg, jn 'South-East Russia.; After, killing a' watefi. "mail; and three policemen, arid Wounding ten other; persons,-the robbers! escaped.'..:.. KITCHEN l EirS~FARE\\ ELL Calcutta, September 9. ;. Lord Kitchener, who has retired from the command of tho, Indian . Army, met with a 'remarkable, series of demonstrations on his journey. from Simla. Tho whole of the garrisons turned. out' at_ tho various. .stations to cheer him and bid him farewell. • :i '

■ GAOL FOR CONFIDENCE TRICK. ... London, Soptombcr 9. Burns, a jockey, .has' boon sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for robbing Watson,' a Queenslander, by means, of tho .coniideuco trick.'.'; • , , 1 : CABLE ASSOCIATION ' ATTACKED. Molbourno, September 10In the Federal Scnaw tho Hon. G. F. Pearce (who was Minister for Defence in the Fisher Government) moved for a Select"Committee to inquire into the methods -of : tho Australiah .Press Cable Association. He accused tho .'service, of sending",inaccurate reports, The debate was adjourned for a week. AFTER THE PRESS CONFERENCE. , 1 Sydney, .September 10. Mr. M. Cohen, editor of the "Dtinedin Star," who was a New Zealand delegate to the Imperial Pross Conference, has arrived here on his return home. Ho was welcomed at the Town Hall byithe Lord Mayor and ■aldermen. ,

■ > GO.LF. . Melbourne, September 10. Falshead, of Victoria, won th© open golf championship or Australia' with an aggregate of 316, beating Soutar. by two strokes. A SYDNEY GAS STRIKE AVERTED. l.; Sydney, September 10. .'An • old -standing disputo : : Detwceil the North Shofe'Gaß Company and its employees' .union culminated in tio union issuing an ultimatum that, unless the' company agreed to an immediate conference with a view to the company withdrawing its application for the setting up of a Wages Board, the employees be called out at 1 o'clock to-day. This would havo meant .a .call out at tho city gasworks. Negotiations resulted in the company agreeing to confer with tho men next '/week, the mon in tho meantime continuing work. :