GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By (Telegraph—Press Asooclatlon-CopTrlgliU FRENCH HONOUR FOR SHACIiLETON. (Rec. November 16, 10.55 p.m.) ' , Lohdon, November l(i. • .. The.' French Geographical Society Jias ..awarded its gold medal to Lieutenant Shackleton. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. . Lortdor, November 15. Mr, J. J. Dodd, a well-known West Hartlepool town councillor, on returning, home found, that his 1 wife had; attefnpted. suicide, after etifc, ting the thtdats, 6f their four young children. SUICIDE. London, November 15. Worrall, late coachman at Gorso Hall, Stalbridge, Dorsetshire, has hanged himself. Tho suicide has ho cohnection with the murder of Mr.Storr.vthe owner of Gorse Hall; (who was fatally . stabbed . 'there; the other ; day by a bqrglaf, the murderer escaping). ■ .' TpE- BRITISH WINTER. London, November 18. : Snow 'has fallen over one-half of the United Kingdom, .. ■■■..■■ . o ■ ROBBERS IN A MONASTERY. n ■ San Francisco, November ISi Twtt disguised burglars broke into' the ft-ancifc-' can Monastery: at I'orest Gate, and attaokod with lii'o*presCrvers two brothers, \Who were Carrying i'Boo, tho receipts from bazaars. One ot. the burglars has been arrested. ; . UNIVERSITY AERONAUTICS- . Ottawa, November 15. The M Gill University at Montreal has arranged a . lectureship in airship designing. TRANSVAAL INDIANS AND PRISON ' DIET. Capo Town, November 15. ■-.At tho rGijuest or the British Indian Association, British doctors investigated tho prison dietary for Indians in' the Transvaal, and urgently recommended hn improvement. [The passive resistance of Indians to tho •Tiansvaal registration law has resulted in numbers of them .being imprisoned for breaches of the law. A recent cablegram stated that the Colonial Secretary;: General Smuts, and thn Indians' spokesman, Sir. Ghandi, had failed to eonie to terms, and therefore that tho agitatioll). to ! use Mr; Gharidi's. words, '"willcontinue on a bigger scale than ever."]

A SILVKIt-IJ3AI) ORB DISCOVERY IN ' TiSMANIA., • , . Hcbart, November 16. An important. discovery of galena oro (sulphide, of load) has been made by a wood-outtDr named Wallace, about five miles from Ze'ehan .llw lode "averages , three feet in width. assay of, tho oro give 3 80 per cent, of lead and' 90 ounces of silver to the, ton. - , lUß'i'lf* TRKSIORS. • „ , • Melbourne, Ndvember iG; .Sharp earth tremors were' felt in the Lakes district of Victoria on Sunday.' The shock was of sufficient, force; to causo windows to rattle and to shake crockery on the shelves. ! CRICKKT—SOCTit AUSTRALIA'S MNE . START. y ~ ' AdtlaidS, November lb. In the inter-Stnte crißket nlatcli; Victoria v. South Australia, the lattorV first ; innines closed fot 500 —Mayne 32, Qehrs 118, Hill 17C Claxtoh 88, Recs 20, Ileu'ct' (not Out) 83. Victoria has lost fiW wickets for 11 Warfto (not out) 24. ■ 1J '

I-ADIES' TAILORING. , Tho oldest and lest firm, now sprine romi« and styles. Mr. Nodino will do the fiSiiie Nodino and Co., 7G WollinHton Torraco. Cili27 • A REVOLUTION IN LOCOMOTION. The . Hotosacooho weighs only 701b. It costs 9d. por ,100- Milts to r,Un. Spetd from 1 4' to SO milts.; Comfort, ftoliability, and Durability, CntaloElto • and TrUls; Cyolo and ; Motor Sup. plios, Ltdu Wellington.—Advt. ■ CMS "i r ou say tho question is not wltctlior lie will marry her?" "Not if you wish to bo Usdimcolly . oorrcct. . 'l'ho question is whethot eho will let Mm escape."