GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 614, 17 September 1909, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

lUy Tckerapij.—Prcaß AtßoclftttoD.-*OoDfTlcllU ——— ■■■■'■..:■' i A POLICE SCANDAL. - (Bee; September 16, 11 p.m.) 5 London,- September 16. ;i Three police officers at Preston', in Lan- y cashiro, have been dismissed, and nino have . been reduced in rank, owing to offences of .;j bribery, dri/iking, and betting. , r TAXI-CABS IDLE OWING TO DRIVERS* t . ■ TEST; ' ■ London, September 15: A thousand taxi-cabs aro idle in London, ' "• owing to tho lack of competent drivers; Tha " ' motor-cab companies complain that tho now •/; police requirements aro .too rigorous.' ; 1 SUICIDE OF AN EX-GOVERNOR, London, September 15. Sir Ralph Moor, ; tho Higlr Commissioner for- Southern; Nigeria, committed suicide atBarnes, near. London, by taking poison. FATAL POISONING-COMMITTED FOB . TRIAL.'- • Sydney, September 16. .' At the inquest on Cox, who died at the i Hotel Arcadia, tho Coroner found that Cox . died from the effects of poison negligently ' left'in; a bottle in his bedroom at we'hotel ■ by the previous occupier, Dyktor. The lai* ' ' • J tor has been committed for trial' , ' [A Sydney message of Soptemhor 1 stated "A country visitor named Cox engaged a roomin the-Hotel Arcadia,- and feeling thirsty s through tho night, picked up a glass in the ' ■ dark, filled it with water, and . drank it. Subsequently he , was found dead. It tnui&. pired that tho previous occupant of .the rdom had been experimenting with cyanide o£ potassium and other chemicals, and had loft J a portion of.the.mixture in the glass"*' , COMMONWEALTH CAPITAL SITE. . Sydney, September ;16. ; ■ i In the State Assembly , tho Premier, Mri Wade, gave, notice'of his intention to movei : ■/' s to surrender to the CommoUwoalth approxi- , ; mately eight hundred square miles of land j at Yass-Canborra fot a site for the Federal "t capital. . : . ■ SEVEN ' SHOPS BUBNED.; J v ' Sydney, September. 16. '■ ; A fire at Kempsey, 280 miles'north-earf of Sydney, destroyed seven shops. -