GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 799, 23 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Uy Tcloeraph—Preos Asaoclatlon-OoDJrriehC $ ME. ROOSEVELT IN PAEIS. Paris, April 21. Mr. Roosevelt received a ivarm welcpino on his arrival in this city. FAILURE OF COTTON BROKERS. New York, April 21. A firm of Alabama cotton .brokers, Knight, Yancoy, and Co., is bankrupt. The liabilities, total three million dollars, and the assets half a million (not including, equities) -OBITUARY. London, April 21. The death is announced of Sir John Schroder, Baronet (created 1892), and I Baron of Prussia (to which title ho succeeded in 1883). Deceased was head of the banking firm of Schroder and Co., London, and was 85 years of age. He leaves no heir. ;.. ; EXHIBITIONS DEPARTMENT. London, April 21. Owing to the establishment of;a Board of Trade Exhibitions Department, Great Britain's display- at the Brussels Exhibition, to be opened on Saturday next, will be the finest of any foreign exhibition. ,' SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOAN. London, April 21. The "Daily Mail" reports that the South Australian loan lists have closed, and that they seem to have met witha very poor response. The underwriters get 66 'per cent. Of tho loan. CONGREGATIONAL UNION. London, April 21. . One-half the Congregational Union's quarter of a million Central Augmentation Fund has been raised. bECLINSD.' London, April 21. Owing to the ' cost (estimated at £550), the Loudon County Council declined Sir Ernest Shackleton's suggestion ' that the council should enable school children to visit the Antarctic Exhibition.

GIBRALTAR SEES THE COMET. Cibraltar, April 21. HaUey J s Comot has been observed from the signal station afc Gibraltar. ' FIRE ON THE SONNEBERG. Sydney, April 22. The underwriters have received advice that the firo aboard tho German steamer Soruieborg, at Adon, has been got under. ;