GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 685, 9 December 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Telesruph-rrtn .Aitoclatioa-Cotijrlgbtl « CUTTING DOWN U.S. EXPENDITURE. London, December 7, The United States expenditure for 1911 is estimated nt .£H6,4«,Gls—twenty and a half millions below the appropriations for the- current year. CEICKET: M.C.C. TEAM IN SOUTH AFRICA. m , „ , London, December 7. The Marylebone Club cricket .team made 351 rnus in their match against the Western Provinces of South Africa. The colonials made 67, and 151. -

THE KING'S PRIZE CATTLE. ,„. _, , London, December 7. King Edward visited the Cattle Show nt Isbngton. Out of twenty-nine entries, his Majesty secured three breed cups, seven firsts, six seconds, three thirds, and four "commendeds.".

RESIGNATION OF A BISHOP. ' ■ mi _ London, December 7. The Right Rev. Dr. , Samuel Thornton is resigning from tho Assistant Bishopric of Manchester. IDr. Thornton is 74 yeilrs of age. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors School and Queen's College, Oxford. Ho was otdaincd "J■ 185S, and was appointed to St. Jude's, Uhiteohapel, the following vear. Ho was rector of St. George's, Birmingham, from 1861 JiL 1 , 5 ' and Bishop of BallaTat from 1875 to 1900, being appointed Assistant Bishop of Manchester in 1901.] AUSTRALIA'S NAVAL UNIT. „ , , „ , Melbourne, December 8. Colonel Foxton (Hdnorary Minister in tho lederal Government, uud Commonwealth delegat* to the Imperial Dofenc* Conference) informed the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. MKenna) of tho passing of tho Naval Loan Bui, which finances the Australian naval unit. H« received this replyj "Congratulations to tno British Empire. AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL SITE. .m. n .. , «., „.„ Sydnoy, December 8. Ihe Capital Site Bill has been passed by the Legislative, Council. VICTORIAN OAT YIELD. n,, „ Melbourne, December 8. .The official report of the Victorian oat yield estimates it at 10,«i,000 bushels-a decrease of 681,000 bushels. ACQUITTED.

:■„,.'■' '' " Sydney, December 8. . btanisiaus Dyktor. was found not guilty of the manslaughter of Henry Robert Cox, at the Hotel Arcadia, where Cox died from drink-ing-water out of. a bottle: containing poison, which had been left in the room by Dyktor. DE(UINE ; OF VICTORIAN RABBIT \, : ' EXPORTS;.:: .:: '-,;'■■■" Melbourne, December 8. At a meeting of rabbit exporters■'■ it was announced that the number exported had .decreased from ■ over, ten; millions. in 1905, to 2,773,000 'in the present year. 7 At the same rate of decline the Victorian trade would soon be a thing of the:past.;; Tho chief cause of the decline was the preference shown to New South Wales rabbits, which are heavier and of better quality.. ~'.'.. .';'..' FEDERAL ELECTIONS. '/ . Melbourne,, December 8. : The Prime Minister, Mr. Deakin, informed the House of Representatives that the Federal elections would take place a fortnight after Easter. ■■ ;'■.-•■ ■•";•• -.■ '■;