GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

ißj Telegraph—Pr««« A«iocl*tlcn— i DEATH OF A HBEBAL PEER. • : . (Eeo. .December 23, p.m.) ■ t jir t. ii -r ,f*®ndon, December 23. Lord Monfcsweil, a. Liberal Peer anrt'formcrly chairman'of County Council, is dead; aped 64, ; LTho < late -Eobert Collier, Lord Monkswell, born vin : 1845, • had a distinguished caroer at 1 Eton. and Tnnjty CQllego, Cambridge. He went to. .tho i isar,,. and : onterodv zealously into '<' tho jr° ?• ' an original mombor o*. tho County Council, holding. offico from that bodrt| establishment m-1889till ,1907. -For a time ho uas chairman of tho Council; and he was always prominent in- the 'Progressive party, Whou tho Liberals were in office'- from : 1802 to 1895, ho was a Xord-m-Waiting, and l for ; a few. months: was Under-Secretary for ■War. Much surprise was expressed when -ho •was. overlooked by tho late Sir:Hy. Campbell-' liannorman when the lattor formed his Liberal Ministry. ;in 1905. Lord. Monkswell's ;publications . include: "Collier on - Contributaries," : a covel : entitled , "Kate Gronville," and various articles and pamphlefa. 'His hoir. is his son therHon. Eobt. A. H. Collier, born in 1875, who is.a olorK in tho Foreign Office.] ■

• BIG ESTATES AND DEATH DUTIES. i iro. i i - London,-. December-22. : ' Tho estate of the late Mr. Arthur Wilson, -ii i I P? w 2 ier ' I'm , been sworn at i£C6i,M-j,.that of Consuelo, Duclices of MnnohosW,. at .0324,860;; and that-of Sir V.' L. Cohen at. «£385j1d6. /Xho .tbiee, with other dMUMiutiM, gava to the Trutoury 'in 'one day

sFiJETHEE. SEABCH i FOR WARATAH. • T ~r • Sydney, December, 23. : The Lord Mayor (Mr. A. Taylor), presided at a', public, meeting • which ; decided to. startv a fund to_pay the expenso of a further search for. tho, Waratah. The sum .of .£2527 was pro-' mued at ;the'meeting. ■ The State' and tho feder.il,Governments will bo 'asked to asitistv : iACKENSCHMIDT AND MOIR COMING. < - .Adelaide, Docembcr 2;). The wrestler Haokenschmitft (who was : de-l fcated by tho American Gotch for tlio world's championship), accompanied by tho-Irish boxer "Gunner" Moir, ,lim arrived.. After a short stay in,- Auatrali*' the pair, will proceed to N«w Zealand.

iUSTIUIiLAN TELEPHONE PROFITS.' ' Melbourne,. December 23. The. report of. the Telephono Accounts Commission shows that from the date of the as-sumption-of Federal control to the ond of last Juno the telephones in: Victoria yielded- a net profit of J8148,000.' - During last year,-when the toll system wasun operation, there Vns fl loss of; JWOOO. -This .loss is largely attributed to 1 th 6 clumsy method of reckoning calls.' :But for the adoption of tho toll system there would hava been a further, profit of *020,000. AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Perth, December 23. • . A public 'mooting resolved in favour of the Wjolition,of capital punishment, on the ground tic-it it. has failed, as a dot'orent to crime/