GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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ft ARMY TENDERS. (Reo. October 29, 9.10 p.m.) London, October 29. The War Office is inviting Australian, tendei s, returnable by January (S, for a} ear's, supply of torage and meat for the. troops' in South Africa, delivery to commence in April. ILLNESS OP MR. HALL-JONES. London, October 29. Mr. Wray Pallieer will bs Acting-High Commissioner until Mr. Hull-Jones recovers. [Nows wos rsctmed jostoiday that the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, whobo health lias been causing some anxiety, waa \oiy much better,] DREADNOUGHT-CRU ISER'S MISSING PLANS. .'•■/'■'■ ' London, Ootober 29, : ■ , When questioned in the; Houso of Cqrhmbns by Mr. G.! Hen'wick (Unionist) .'as Ho the -report that tho plan's of a Dreadnought-cruiser aro;missing, the; First Lord of the. Admiralty, Mr.', M'Kouna; admitted.,that the contractors had lost confidential drawings relating, to the Indomitable (not her: sister ship; as was reported yesterday), Mr. M'Kenna added that, owing to the fact: that the Indomitable hod been in commission for'some; time, tho drawings had lost much of their!value. ".■ '■''

, COUNTED OUT.' ,■ ' : , Melbourne, Ootober 29. The State Assembly was counted out while discussing a Bill to stop boxing.contests. The Bill lapsed; ~ - .:.;../.:■...., .■-./, COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY. : . .'.'.''•''' :,• ' ' Sydnnyi Ootober 20. At the half-yearly .meeting of the Colonial Sugar Company, tho report showed a net profit of making, with the added balance, JE225,581. A dividend of 5 per cent, was declared, and £82,882 was carried forward. : .-:■ MR'. KEIE BARDIE'S PROPERTY RIGHTS . ■■■'. -INFRINGED. ... ;' .- '~ , ... .■■'.-, London, October 28. While Mr; Keir Hardie, •, Chairman of the Labour party", was entering atramcar.at Bermondsey, a pickpocket. stole a watcli which had been presented to himby the Independent Labour party. ■ •'■'.•. 'NEW STEAMER FOR SAN-FRANCISCO!"'. ■'.■..;■.""■ : -'SERVICE.;' ■■■■.: ~.'.' London. Ootober 28. The steamer Mineric, intended for tho San Francisco-Austraksian mail service, has. been launched at Glasgow., ./ ;,;'■,'. .' ' COMPULSORY • CONCILIATION NOT , ■:,-■-■ WANTED,,- ..... ' ■ Durban, October 28.. In the Natal Assembly the Compulsory Conciliation in Labour Bill was rejected on the second readinu. .-" ~.•..... THEATRICAL ENTERPRISE* IN SYDNEY. .Sydney, October 29. Another theatre, capably of seating threo thousand .persons, is to be erected in Oxford Street, Sydney.' ; • ~ |, A TELLER'S: DEFALCATIONS. , . ':'•. Melbourne, October 29.. At a meeting of the Colonial Bank of Australasia, the chairman stated, that -tho recent defalcations by James Martin Fitzsiinmons, teller, for which ho had been sentenced to three years'imprisonment, totalled. i! 3598. '"'..', iHAIL STONES KILL : FOWLS.-.:'■'.'"'.'' ■ Sydney, October 29. During a, hallßtorm at'Wybong haps of ice as big as hen's eggs fell, and did much dam.' age to fruit, Many fowls wero killed, ',-;- LATE SHIPPING, , • ■'■"":.-'■ ■'■. London, October 29. Sailed i Clan Sinclair,'for Wellington.