GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

IBJ Teletfann-pH,, AM 9 cl»tloa-Co W r!?hi| • NATAL'S MILITARY NEEDS. „.,„,. , London, ttovombtt 14, ' \ WetenneriUnnrg correspondent reports thnt_tho Natal Commandant of iHlitia tirgoa th 6 imperative need of uqivorsal compulSory military trßining in tho colony. '' The Commandunt edde that Natolinhs, nbtwithetanding the ever-prosent native trouble, are shirking thew reepohalbllities. WINE QUESTION IN OAPE COLQNT, _ „ p'Pe Town, November 14, n * Cape Assembly hhs passod a light Wine Bill. Mr.. J. w. g wet> nl ,t Ol i f or puijijj Worse, foreshadowed an amendment empowering municipalities to issue light wjflo licenses. BECOfID FOR 126 TAMDS. 'tx. ii ' v. , / Prttwli, November 14. Donaldson rah 120 y#rds in lilsec. at Pretoria -ft world s record. [E. E. Walker, tho South African amateur, at Jollannesburg op DoCemter 26 last covered l"0 yards in4l 2-5 seconds. | The American sphnter, Geu. Soward, is credi cd with 11} seconds in England in 18J7, while in iSBi T. M. Waloie put up thn same time at Stawell, Victoria.] I HALF-MILIiION FOR PHILANTHROPY. mi. -i . t Nb Ji y York ' Novumber 11. Tho widow of Mr. Georgo Speyer, banker, of Frankfort-on-the-Moui, Gormany, has left half a million sterling to churities, education, and doleuce, lUcludijig the study of cancer. N ' A CANADIAN NAVY. Ottawa, November 14, Mr. 1 , . D. Monk, loader of the Queboo Con> servatives, has only five adherent? in his pppositiou to Sir Wilfrid Laurlor's Canadian Navy policy , . HUEMCANB IN'BERLIN-TWO DJ3ATHS. Berlin, November 14. Muoh damago has boon ciiusod by a hurncano in Berlin, Two porsolu niiro killed and thirty injured. * INTER-STA'fE CRICKET-niLL IN FORM. (Rfcc, Novernber>lll, 0,20 a.m.) " Adelaide, November 15. The first-inter-Statq cricket mutch' pf the season, Australia v. Victoria, his begun here. Soutn'Australia ha'i lost three wickets for Mfl-Mavne ,U Clom Bill (not out), tfi Gehra Hβ, Olaxton (not out) 10. A DESTRUCTIvijTIAILSTORM. i ' 6rislian«i November 15, A destructive hailetofln has swept o large Area of the south-eastern distrkts of Queensland. In many places Jagged lumps of ice fell, piercing iron roofs. '.Thousands of window.' panes hnvo been broken, and crops, orchards, I nnd gardens destroyed. The damage round ! about Brisbane, alone amounts to some them-1 <;ands of pounds. i . FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT. Melbourne, November 15. Whilo Professor Norman Morrison, principal of Goolong College, was climbing a fence, a loaded gun he was carrying, went off, and the ohaigo lodged in hie head. Death resulted soon afterwards. INSTITUTES OF JOURNALISTS. ' Sydney, November 15. Tho InsUtnto of Journalists of New. South Wales hat decided to take steps to affiliate to other Australian and-New Zealand institutes. TWO MEN DROWiNED-FATE OF WOULD-BE RESCUER. Sydney, November 15. • A m.»n named Bass got into iliihcuUles while TOrf bathing at Cronulltt. His brother wont to his assistance, and both wero drowned.