GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 717, 17 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Aesoclation-OoDyrleht. 1 < ' PEOFESSOE MOKD'S ESTATE. i (Eec. January 16, 5 pjn.) J ' London, January 13. The l fortune of th,e late Professor Lud- '- wig Mond (the eminent chemist, who left .£160,000 in scientific and charitable bequests, besides bequeathing to the British National Gallery, 'on certain conditions, 56 valuable piotures) his been sworn at .£1,000,000. ' '

EOTAL ACADEMY APPOINTMENTS,

• . London, January 14. Mr. Stanhope Alex. Forbes, AJB.Athe well-knonn artist, has been elected a member of the Eoyal Academy, Messrs Derwent Wood and WUhwa Orpen havo been elected Associates.

CONCEBNING FEEIGHTS. .

London,-January 14. Mr. Lloyd-George,, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a letter to the chairman , of the Bucknall Steamship Lines, states* that a break in Australian wool freight would certainly impose a serious loss upon Australian lines. Such action is' as foolish and ineffective as it is unnecessary.

, GTJN EXPLOSION INJUEIES.

Melbourne, January V>. Ten of the men injured by the promaturo explosion of a charge of a 9.2 in. gun at the fort at Point Nepean have been discharged from hospital, and the others are expected to resume duty ui a few days. The pounds are less ecrioua than was at first supposed. ' , i

, CONTINENTAL CYCLING.

i Sydney, January 15." Birtlcs, the long-distance cyclist (wha has twice cycled across the Australian, Continent from Porth to Sydney), will in a fortnight start on a bicycle ride right lound Australia, a distance of ,12,000 miles.

SEDUCTION OF, LICENSES IN , VICTOEIA. IL i T iK

>;ft' ; - ■■&■*,~'-\-:?;";: Melbournei'jJanuary: I& 'YJ? V During', the .two-rand : a hiilf years • that's .the' Licenses Eediiction ■Board: has ; beenVS in operation, ■ 311 hotels hD.ve'-.had _their.;l licenses 'withdrawn, involving, a-'-payment;,? of ''over ; - in £■, 'J

BETIEEMENT. -

'/■l.''.?, 1 .;-?'''-'/''. , .'" ':Sydneyi ; January '{': Captain; -H. V Newson,'-.- Superihtendenil of. Navigation) has -retired of: