GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Tclecrapli-I'reaa Aasucltttion-Ooiorrlcht.

' • . ■ •'. ■-• '•■ "— — -- - ♦ -—:■■■'-■'—' .' .■■','<■, ANGLO-GERMAN COMMERCIAL . TREATY. _■;.'- 'i.(Rec.' December 0, 10,20,; p.m.) ; ;i : ~i - : ,-> ■.;»■"■ Berlin, . 'Thy Ji'oaty■ ieneiying- -till ''the"'ehd 'of"<l!)lPtlie*.' .provisional, agreement by virtue -of which, Gor-' many grants. the . m'ost-favouled-nation treatment, to the commefiie 'of the Britieh' Empire ■has boenrenda third time in the Reichstag. ; ; : y'-y DEATH: 01?: ADOLF BEpK. ; ?' : ;' ; - '.':■'•■■' v v London, December 8. "Adolf'Beck, the famous victim of mistaken identity, who in 1904 was given ,£2OOO by: the Government as compensation for wrongful' arrest and imprisonment, is dead.; He died'in London in a stato of destitution; ...... : ..'.

ESTATE DUTY ACTION-TEEASUEY RETAINS £130,000. London, December 3. J The llousd of Lords has decided that estate duty must bo paid on a million and a half pounds' worth of foreign bearer bonds doposited in London by Mr. W. Winans. a mil- ■ lionaire, who was domiciled ■in America, but | died in London. The executors claimed a refund of .£130,000 dnty, which they paid in order to obtain probate. GUN-RUNNING IN TIIB PERSIAN GULP. Teheran, December 8. British gunboats in tho Porsian Gulf captured three dhows engaged in gun-running, lwo thousand rifles and 4G0.000 cartridges wore seized. ■ • ■ PEAKY LECTURING. New York,. December 8. Commander Pecry, wlio reached the North Polo in April of this year, has started lecturing. There wore 10,000 persons present at tho first lecture in New York, EX-PREMIEK TO BE PROSECUTED. Copenhagen, December 8. Tho Polkething (Danish House of Commons) has agreed to the prosecution of M. Christcnuen, ex-Prcinicr, on account of hia relations with Al. Alberti, ex-Minieter of Justice (now charged with enormous frauds in connection with tho produce trade). COMMOmVEALTH APPEOPKIATION BILL. 'Melbourne) December 9. The Federal Senate lias passed the Appropriation Bill. LOUD MAYOR OP SYDNEY. „ 1M Sydney, December 9. • Mr. Allon Taylor has boou re-elected Lord Mayor, unopposed.