GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 663, 13 November 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Bj Tc|cgr»E>h-PrM» Amoetstioa-QoiijrlgJiU PURCHASE OI? THE OROYA. (Roe. November 12, 10.35 p.m.) " , 0 ' . ' Borne, November 12. The late Australian' liner Oroya (G297 tone gross, formerly in the service of'tho .Royal Mail Steam Pocket Company) has boon pui» chased by a Genoa firm for Jei2,ooo. A MEDICAL EXPEDITION TO FUI. ' • London, November 12., Dr. Bohi tnd some students of the London School of Tropical Medicine will start for lfiji on November 19, to etudy dysontory, ' Lord Sheffield will defray the .expenses ot th» , expedition. , ' , REINFORCEMENTS 'at AItfJEBIL. Tohcran, November 11. Roir.forcenionts have arrived at Ardebil, in i Northsrn Persia, which was captured and pillaged by rebel tribesmen under Rakhim Khan, whoso acts caused thousands' of residents to sock sanctuary in tho Russian Vico-Consnlate. Tho Russian residents dnd other foroigner* aro now reassured. , ■ - ITO'3 MURDER-REPOKTBD ATTACK ON KOREANS. , ■ ' ■ . , 'New York, November It' The "Now York Herald" states that during military manoeuvres at Utsunomiya (about 50 miles north of Tokio) a number of Japanese attackod the Korean military attache, with the object of avenging the murder of Princo lto' . m Manohurip.. SUEZ 'CANAL CONCESSION.; '. ', London, November 11. ' Tho Paris correspondent of tho "Standard," referring to tho reported hitch in the ncgotla. tions the Suca, Canal Company and tho Egyptian Government for an extension of tho company's concession from 1908 till 2008,' days negotiations are now proceeding.' • THE TAPT TOUR.' - ,' t , „ , 'New York. November' U. President Toft has returned to Washington, after a tour through tho United States covering thirteen thousand milea. SCOTT'S ANTARCTIC EXPEDmON. London; November U,. The Royal Geographical Society has dedded to give £500, and the Hoyal Society. X2SO. towards the cost of Captain Scottfe Antwctio expedition. i .

BUILDING DOCKS IN CEYLON. London, Novemba 11.. iiossra. Walker, Sons, and Company, Hie well-known Ceylon morobants in Basinghall Ktro't London, aw constructing , & graving dock and workshops for repairing naval ttoa other vossole at Coyjon. ' , / A. DESPERATE PRISONER. Melbourne, November J2. ' Jvjnjr, the negro oonvict who attacked and stabbed Wardor Cnrtie in Pontri,dge Gaol, was subsequently placod in a etrait-jackot. Qβ managed, thowoyer, tq rid himealf of it,, and attacked another wardor named SuHirai, assaulting hini with a cell pannikin, tad inflicting a eovere l wound behind the cir; Sine was overpowered oftor a great struggle. ASIATICS IN WHITE,AUSTRALIA* ~ , Mtlbourne, November IS. According to a statement presontod to th* Federal Bonote, there aie 31,000 AsuiUce ia ,the Commonwealth. ~.,•. ,' j i NEWSPAPERS AND ELECTIONS -, ( , Melbourne, November J2l '' In the Federal Hqnso Mr. P. W. BamfonJ (Queensland) spoko in support of an amendment in the Electoral Hill in favour of pro. lilDitin? newspapers from commenting on jfieehons between nomination and poUing day. Mr. Bamford declared that previously the press had stood for all that was good, It ivas a rcdretfcr of wronrf. ' Now it hwl descentlea from its high pedestal,, and was actually brawling 'in tho gutter. All tho papers wore on the Ministerial sido. The Labour party was like an 8-stono man p>tes into the ring to fight a 12-etOne opponont. LAWN TENNIS. > .. .. _ Melbourne, November 13.. U the.Victorian lawn,tennis tonrnamenli Broakc> btat Heuth, C—2, b-.IT 0-0 j Wilding beat Campbell, i-1, i-Z, 6-2. T _ MOWXS. ' t .v • t . Me H>our'ne, November 18. dofentcd Now South Wales by in to 83 point*,