GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

IBj Tolesraph-Preii Auo«J»tlon-Copyrlglill « —i EAILWAY UNIONS' AMALGAMATION. • (800. December 14, 10 pm.) ' London, December 14. T|ie Amalgamated Society of Eailuny Men and the General Eailwny Wprkors' Union ha\e decided tp amalgamate, BIG BLA?E IN A CHfLIAN TOWN. i London, December 11 A great portion of tho seaport of Valdivia, wiile, has been burned. The damage is estimated at half a million sterling. [Val<l"ia was destrojed by ap earthquake in JB.H. JNear it is located a prosperous Gerninn fffifr '" ! POP"' 11 " 0 " °£ Valdivia is about ANTARCTIC HONOBBS. „ , London, December 14 Jung rdward formally conferred his knighthood on Sir Ernest Shackleton; and handed the lioya} Geographical Society's medals to his companions. CROSS-CHANNEL FLIEB INJUEED. jf t,i ■ i. /i,.Constantinople,' pecember 10 41. Jljcnot (the conqueror of tho Channel), while IlyiDß in Jus monoplane, collided with a roof at and tnrnrd a somersault. If. Dlcrint foil eighteen feet, and vU injured. Ho was conveyed to a hospital. ■Kt rr i i •« , Loncjorjj December IS. Mr. Herbert Paul, Liberal member for Northampton, has ])cen appointed Second Cml oer\ico Commissioner. i^i°- Cl Hi- Sorv , lM t established m 18i3, conduct tho Ciyil Senile examinations not only fqr lipme seivice6, but also for Indian, military, naval, and colonial sorvic?s lt. ■ lhp Commissioner receives £1500 and the Second JCI2OO a year. "Mr. Herbert lnul, say 3 a contemporary, "U one of tho jnost polls led partisan writers of the .present day. % sat frjarliamerit Purghin the short parliamenf of 1892, but he 13 better known as a former leader-writer on tho Daily Neyrs,'pnd a.s the author of a Tlistnry Modern England,' ylijch is vqry readaqle for its crisp pungency and alert eye for capital. Mr/Paul lias also written lives of MntthoTf Arnpld ami Lprd Acton, and undoubtedly melds ono of tho cleverest pons in current controversy. On tho plntform he has nn engaiiinj! styjo, rising at times to an unctupiw rectitude worthy of 'C.-B.' liimsclf Politically bp is a very rank prp-Boer, and is in that respect a most appropriate successor to Labby.' Ho was born m 1853, was educated at Eton and Corpus, and has been followed by hi? son fIR President nf the Oxford Union He lias been called to tho Bat at Lincoln's Inn, nnd is married to a danpibter of the late W Eitchie. Hβ spnir-times shocks tho House with new and daring theories, and occasionally he bores if by talking too long.' , ] A CEYLON LOAN. . London, December 13. CCpt - lMn Pf TEAMS CYCLE EACE. « , „ ew , December 13. Eutt, f> Gorman, and Clarke, of Australia jtpn a 6 flays' team? cycle race at Now York. They aiveroil 26ffl mjjps, Hchr, another Australian, did 2059 milts. CEICKRT-CEAWI'ORD'S STATUS. m, v, r. ~ Al e l(""Urne, December 11. The Now South Woles Cnckpt Association wrote to the Vjctofia^Association, taking e\pephon to Mr. J. N. Crawford, tho Surrey cricketer, Who has taken up his residence in Adelaide, being allowed to play for South Australia until ho had resided thoro for three nonths, pointing out that under tho ngreoinenj; I'etgees tljo Stafes taking part in tho Sheffield Shiold contests three months' residence was necessary beforo any cricketer could play for a State. The Victorian Association decided that, as it had no agreement with South Auitraha on tho subject, it had no objection to Crawford playing.