GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 728, 29 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

1 By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright i ♦ THE NEW COMET. ' 1 (Eec. January 28,' 10 55 pjn.) ' m , ~ London, January 28 ■ The Cambridge Observatory states that tho new comet's nucleus continues vivid Its tail has greatly increased, and is now 16 degrees in length, with a curve towards Pegasus. , j KING EDWARD' GOING TO 'SOUTH OF'EMJTCE. '"> .mW -, 1 . ~ , London, January 27. Acting under medical advice, KinK Edward will g0 to Biarritz, the French watering-place on the Bay of Biscay, on March 3, in order to escape tho trying winds of the Old Country. - AUCTION OF ART COLLECTION. ti.« v 1 _i Lo " d °ni January 27. nnn srt5 rt valued at Wffl i«r?,l? udm v' a Persian carpet worth X 25,000, is leing sold by auction for the benefit of creditors, QEEMAN-POETUGUESE TREATY- AN ADVERSE VOTE™ ... ' Berlin, January 27. Abe committee of the Reichstag, bv 15 votes to 13, has decided to reject rat/ncation of the commercial treaty with niE 1 !? c ? mmaroial t»&ty referred to had already been accepted by the Cortes. It contains a ''mostfavoured-nation" dause, SJli, ■? tebl ? 3 ? f . commodities, as to which it 13 stipulated that if Portn™l raises W taxill on those in K list, she must simultaneously lower it ?,?? k! T? I' l 0^ 0r f d on those '° tte other Portn Eal raises her tariff, for 5S& P i.i on woollen ' ***• wd cotton o^fU ool^ 13 ' „ ric , e ' outler y. and machmery, she will ha\o to lowor it on t a oT B /n ther tkns3 ' instrument C)irfi Ppe n Wll6 ' *}«. Bed* wool, manu! tactured sili, and half-silk matni-MTlo dru?f A »**"> chtmicals! and drugs. According to a recent cablegram he reporter for tho Jiejchstag CoS ciai treaty with Portugal, "because nf wi_rW?1 M S when ft* yL*" 111 7 ar mth Ca °ada, the sam h e ad sort?T ,Uraßed ""* V ° ntnrM ol LORD DUDLEY, rni. Nt . FrSTI-nlie,' January 28 G wnr^t& RAIN PREVENTS CRICKET. (Rec. January 29, U a.m.) p- nn ™ Sydney, January 28 Heavy rain prevented the resumption of the inter-State cricket match beE Victoria and New South Wales (inwS ttl Mer 'i ad scored U \ol 2 their second innings, and need 263 runs more in order to win).