GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 52, 29 August 1914, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) BOORABIL ESTATE CASE ' SYDNEY, 28th August. The Full Court has dismissed the appeal against the payment of £200 to Mr. Osborne, a member, and Mr. Jones, an ex-member, of Parliament, in. connection with the sale of the Boorabil Estate to the Government, on the ground that the appeal was on the score of public policy, and that plaintiffs, as members of Parliament, were not entitled to payment of commission and expenses. The majority of the Court held that plaintiffs' action was not illegal. Mr. Justice Gordon dissented, holding that members of Parliament, by using influence with Ministers of the Crown for monetary consideration, were acting against the public policy. OBITUARY LONDON, 27th August. Lord Merthyr is dead. [The deceased, who was known as William Thomas Lewis, was raised to the peerage in 1911. He was born at Mer-thyr-Tydvil in 1837, and was for some time a member of the Council of Civil Engineers, and was actively associated with various civil and mining engineering institutions.] DAIRY SHOW TO BE HELD. , Received 29, 10.65 a.m.) LONDON, 28th August. The Dairy Show will be held as usual. The entries are numerous. (Received August 29, 10.35 a.m.) MOUNT MORGAN MINE. BRISBANE, 29th August. The Mount Morgan returns for the month _ eliding ' 23rd August, show that the mine produced 740 tons of blister copper containing 732 tons of copper and 9435 ounces of gold. (Received August 29, 9.45 a.m.) THE HUDDART PARKER. COMPANY. ' MELBOURNE, 29th August. The Huddart Parker Proprietary has declared an interim half-yearly dividend of 6 per cent, on preference shares, and of 5 per cent, on ordinary shares. (Received August 29, 8.55 a.m.) THE POPE'S VACANT THRONE. ' ROME, 28th August. The result of the conferences of various groups of cardinals is that the likeliest candidates for the Papacy are Cardinals Gasparri and Ferrata. (Received August 29, 10.35 a.m.) BARQUENTINK STRANDED. SYDNEY, 29th August. Private advices received at Newcastle Btate that the barquentine Titania was stranded on Dumbea Reef, New Caledonia, on 22nd August. The crow ia safe.