GENERAL CABLE NEWS;

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 683, 7 December 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS;

(By TeloEraph—Press ABSoclatloß-Oopyrlght.l :■ » - SIR ROBERT STOUT. ■ (Sac. December 6, 9.45 p.m.) London, December 6. Sir Robert Stout, who recently underwent'an operation, is able now to take'short drives. LIBRARIES CENSORSHIP. ' (Rec. December 6, 10.50 p.m.) Messrs. H. O. Wells; J. Galsworthy, W. J. Locko, Jerome K. Jerome, Eden Philpotts, E. V. Lucas Malet, W. I?; Do Morgan are among the • novelists who aro vigorously resenting the libraries : censorship,; on . the ground '.that; it will hamper the discussion of urgent Bocial problems, '■•' •. : . • ' ' A STRIKE COLLAPSES. New York, December 5. • The strike of switchmen employed on thirteen north-western ' railways'—who threatened to paralyse; traffic between the. Great Lakes and the l'aciiio Coast,, unless'an increase of wages .was conceded—has collapsed. . . I POISON-BY-POST INCIDENT: THE CASE I "WEAKENS. I Vienna,. December 5. .With regard to the attempt to poison forty officers of the General Stau r in Vienna—one of. whom died from ; ;partaking of a "nerve euro' sent by post, which 'contained • cyanide '?f' P.°^jsitim—the case against; Lieutenant' Hofrichter, now under arrest, is only circumstantial, and. is ; weakening Jdaily; \ , . THE KING EDWAItD MEDAL. •"/ London,.. December 5.. • The scope of the King Edward Medal-which was constituted in 1907, to be awarded, to those' who endanger their own lives in saving, or attempting-to save, the lives .'of• others from perils; in mines or quarries • within tho British Dominions—is now extended by Eoval warrant to all industries. /.

ANGLO-GERMAN COMMERCIAL TREATY. „i. „ . , , -Berlin, December 5. Iho Itachstag passed Uio 13i 11 authorising tho prolongation of temporary; commercial relations with Great Britain'. l ' fThe provisional; agreement -by virtue of which fawmany grants : the ••'most-favoured-nation treatment , to-.'•the commerce' of tho vim explre ' °n" January 1, in o Bill, which. nas passed the Reichstag, authorises the Federal Omhbil<(which has alfcady adoptoil it) to extead the agreement for another two yeara, till the end of 1911.1 ' RUSSIAN PRIZE COTJRT-ST. KILDA AWARD. mi. t, • St. Petersburg, Docember 5. ' J ne llttssian pnr.o court at Libau has awarded the owner of tho British steamer St. Kilda £28,958 '. for . detention; . during '•the'.RiissoJapancse War, but claims for uncontraband portion of tho vessel's ■ cargo havo to await settlement. ■ •; . ;v; . •• FLAGSHIP'S ORDER COUNTERMANDED. „. ~ ■_ , Sydney, December G. ihe> flagship Powerful, which was to havo sailed for Colombo to-day, had her orders countermanded. The reason is 'unknown..; • THE AUSTRALIAN DESTROYERS; ■■ ■mV ' '■ i Melbourne, .'December 0; lhe six .Australian torpedo-destroyers which are to be included in the Commonwealth naval unit trill be named after rivers. , The first three will be called Parramatta, Yarra, and Warrego.