GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 761, 9 March 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Uy 'fsleeranh—Press Association—CoDvrlebt ~ ,'.: .. NEW SOUTH 'WALES LOAN. .(Rec.-M.aroh. 8, 10.30 p.m.). .. London, March 8. The scrip of the New South Wales loan is quoted at Vs. fid. premium. "BOSS" PLATT DEAD. New York, March 8. . .Obituary: Ex-Senator T. C. Piatt, New York Republican boss. :-■ [Born at Oweyo, New York State, 76 years ago, Thos. Collier Piatt has been active in mercantile life, but is best known as a leader for years in. New York Republican politics. He was for years a Congress - man and Senator, and his last term in .the Senate expired last year. He had figured repeatedly as a delegate lii Republican contentions';, both State Diid National. Mr. Piatt was formerly president of several: railroad companies.]

; QTJEEN VICTOEIA MEMOEIAI,, ';■-; London, Match ,8; '.'. In the House of Commons' the First Commissioner of Work, Mr. Harcourt, ah : titilpates that the Queen Victoria He< indrial would be completed within a yeah This he claimed to be art unexampled rate of progress for-a work of such mag' nitude. : [When the memorial is completed it will represent about 500, tons of,the finest, marble.' It will bo front; of Buckingham Palace. It was estimated in 1908. that all the figures would not, .be completed for 'five or"slS years.] ' CHARGE OP BREAKING A BANK SAPE, ■;,".;.. .-.•■: -,:-...,.". .-, London, March 7. Twtj men hAW been' arrested in' London On a charge of blowing up a Safe at a bank, at Liege, Belgium, and stealing ,£9OOO in bonds.' ■', ■ ■ -"•"•'■'

PRISON OUTBREAK QUELLED. /.Madrid, March 7. Forty prisoners at Cartageitii seized and disarmed sleeping. warders, and ftt-' tempted to escape.. They were fired on. By" troops and:wore>subsequently ..overawed.