GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

ByTelOEraph-PressAasociation-OoDyricbi. — ♦———'' STEAMER. GROUNDS IN SDEZ CANAL. (Rec. March 10, 10.30 p.m.) , .. '■" '. Port Said, March ,10. ; The Oceanic Steam Navigation .Company's steel twin-screw steamer Cevie, 8301 tons gross, .struck 'ground in. the Suez'.Canal while bound from Brisbane for London. The steamer returned. toPort Said, where she is discharging cargo from Nos. 1 and 2 holds',. which are, leaking. [The Cevic is a foiir-masted steamer built in 1894 by Messrs'. Harlaud arid Wolff. .' Dimensions:. , Length, 500 ft.; beam, 60ft. ,• depth, 38ft.] '

COLONIAL CORPS.-

. London, March 10. The Prince of Wales has. given tho Kinds'. Colonials ,£IOOO as a fund to meet contingent expenses of their training, which, owing to their distance from Lon r don, cost more than the Government grant. •

KING EDAVARD: -,: London, March 10. King Ediv'ard has arrived at Biarritz. FROZEN 'WALLAB,Y FOR LONDON. .London; March 9. .Three thousand .frozen wallabies were landed, in \ good condition. Jugged wallaby was.served, at city restaurants and aroused great interest. INTERNATIONAL OCEAN"' YACHT RACE. New York,- March.9. The Atlantic Yacht Club \has offered a five thousand .dollar trophy, to \>i called "The President's Cup,".for an international, race , from Europu to Sandy Hook in- tho sunimer of 1911. i : LIGHTHOUSE MEN'S ISOLATION. London, March 9. The .lighthouse 'men '"at Eddystorie Lighthouse, on the Coriiish coast, . have, been relieved after waiting a fortnight for the subsidence of the gales.-. LORD HALSBURY. . . London,- March ,9;.. . Owing to a dearth of judges, Lord Halsbury (who ,was;. Lord . Chancellor in l the last Unionist Government) is.tem 7 . porarily acting as President of the Court of Appeal. . .! • SCULLING : . BARRY'S EXPENSES: London; March., 9. In connection with, the sculling' clia'iripionship of the world, to ,be rowed • fin' the ; Zain besi between R.' A rri'st (holder) and E; Barry (English champion); shn-, scriptions, being raised to pay. Barry's expenses have reached a total of nearly .£BOO. -

ASSAULT AND, BURGLARY. London, March 9. Three burglars' at Norwood concealed themselves in a residence arid awaited the . return of . the occupier, William Taunton, hged ,76. They killed a housedog and brutally assaulted Taunton. The house' was then ransacked. The burglars have been : arrested. WEST AUSTRALIAN'PROGRESS. , „■■ .*'-.'■ London, March 9. . The "Globe" Says the extremely, hopefit! progressive statement presented by :l'he Western Australian.Agricultural Conference will reinforce the . State.V claim for increased immigration. "Western Australia; ones the. Cinderella, is now," says the "Globe," "one of the, most promising States of Australasia." FINANCIAL FRAUD. . . London, .March 9. . Car ew Martin, 'acting-secretary, to the Royal Society, of British Artists, has been sentenced to nine mdnths' imprisonment in the second division for embezzlement. ,' ,■ ..; ..'■'.. , F. C: ICriight has been sentence'; 1 to live years' imprisonment for embezzling £7000 belonging to Barnsby's Building Society. ROUGH WEATHER. , Sydney, March 10.. There is a still'.southerly gale blowing, aritl the sea is rough. . m6rESBY'S . CAPTAIN SEVERELY CENSURED: Brisbane; Mafch 10. . The Marine Bottrd of Inquiry into the" stranding of the' steamer Moresby hi Cook Passage, resulted iri the captain being severely cerisiired; The board considered that" the captain acted wrongly in entering b'efbre daylight; the passage where the steariie'r stranded, and also in sending the passferiger's away from the steamer iri boats: CONSPIRACT CHARGES. . . .Sydney,, .March 10. Huxley, one of the defendants in the conspiracy charges, arising out. of the Rorinid-Hnrpcr libel case,, has been arrested. . ... ;_.. :. .