GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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:. •. NEW ;■ '. (Roc. l r .10?20 p'.mff'• ; , " ' ■' ,f' February 11...:, London; an£ :t ;in "Australasia,!;.£soo',ooo,'7''.'per;".cent!''-,par.- ; t ttcipating rLofd' ltak-' - j ;farl3^B;-Papuan'flandsi syndicate-'receives' , J252,000 bashVand "223,MO:ordinary'-.' ■ shares.',:Tbb' latter' rank;;' for' dividend ■after,'the-preference shaio3 havo received ' their 7 .par .cent. ..'• .'... • .. ; - ,■ ■' ' 1 EPIDEMIC IN NAVAL COLLEGE. r"'"London,' -February 10. ,i Osborne -Naval; College,- in tbe- Isle. : .of :Wight,''has"boeto'closed, ; owing, to,,;'sick- - : ; ness -.' in ■. the' institution.. Two ; hundred* , -out/bf the.five'hundred:: cadets,': including ; Prince.? : Alfert,wcond; son; of,:;the Prince" of ; Wales,: are-suffering -:from influenza. •' There'are some cases ol pneumonia. ■: .;••••) AMERICAN SENSATION: VERDICT * - IN SWOPE CASE. New: York, February 10. ' In the, slander"case'. arising out ; . of the . death of . .York jury'. found ' thai 'Swope diedirom Bt^clrninev'containedin-; a v capsule;;;. p_resenbed ; by' Dr. \ Hyde, .hut .'whether with : a' felonious; intent-the.;iury : !.WM; unable-to ; ';^;■ p.'A' • [Colonel Swbp'e,;;a').!;iailliqnaire.: ; pWlan- , thropist,-.of. i Kansas;.- City, ■'; died ;suddenly'!.h : Subsequentiy,- .'owing;, to cer T 'tain rumours/ Dr.; Bennett.Clark-Hyde sued the executor of the. estate,, for slanderously. accusing him ;of poisoning the: his . nephew! wise /died suddenly.;. The ca6Q vtook . a *sensatiolial turn. ; .wheri.-it;.was. announced that",-a. chemical--, analysis'/showed' ' that Colonel : Swope < died of : strychnine; Dr. 'Hyde, .'..-who,, married !,!'Cblpnel;7"Swbj>e's niece!', "medically -"..'attended': the:-,' Colonel; ahd^,other mem j 1 RUSSIAN POLICE WAYS.—TIMELY 'SENTENCE.' St. Petersburg, February 10. . '-'' Lagovsky, a police inspector,;at Lubny,! inLittle .Eussia.'.ias.'.becn;.'sentenced,;,to four.: years''imprisonment 'f or concocting a;'series.- ofimkgLnaryi-mrirderqus.'.plots to s&cure. promotion. '-V.-v V' ;■ : BISHOP ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ,■ Sydney, February 11, -.- ■ •Inv' an, 'interview, Dr. ; :; C.'"'E.; Camidge! ; Abting-Primate ' and ' fortherly "Bishop.; oi « Bathurst, .said lie ithbtight there' was' no. ; more satisfactory .'system' than. the publio, school: systcm''6f.,'NewSouth Wales. ~ ;MTW' Scripture'lessons:.in .New, ': South; , ■ Wales schools havo lately been the subject ■ of aiheated'cbntrov'ersy'between.Cardinal Moran ! and the State:Minister?for Educa-. : tion,;Mr. Hogue.]. •. ■' ' : ; - CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED. •....>-. r - Sydney, ,February 11. . Tho Marino Court has delivered its ; final decision in the' case of . the Illawarra and South Coast', Steam -Navigation Company's. Etc-el screw steaitoer-Eden," 693 tons, .which;!,-.', with • one-'vhundred,, .-passengers aboard, crashed: into a ;high cliff !at' Cape St. George, about ,150 miles south : of Sydney.'. The certificate of. Captain; -■ -Bishop, who was blamed;for."not.reducing. speQd in a. thick; fog, has ,bMn suspendeu : : for-v'six, months 'from:, the ,:date of tho ' stranding (December 18). . .. , SEARCH FOR THE WARATAH. ; Melbourne, February 11. . ; -. -Advice has,! been, - fee'eived;..-that; the •• steamer--.Wakefiold will leayo Durban 'on Monday to prosecute, the search' for tho ': missing. liner Waratah. . . r/~