CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1795, 16 May 1912, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

SPECIAL TO SYDNEY SUN. PANAMA CANAL. NO GOOD TO THE RAILWAY COMPANIES. ■' ■ London, May 7. - Mr George Sheldon, President ol the National Business League of the United States, sees in the opening of the Panama Canal a great danger to the earning capacity of the, American and Canadian transcontinental railways. Nearly all-the European traffic will pass through the canal, and London shipowners are quietly preparing to'capture this-trade, lne Canadian., lines will probably suffer the most, as they have not the sanie amount of local traffic as America from which /to derive dividends. EDUCATION METHODS. EDISON TO THEM. ON THE BIOGRAPH. New York, "May 7. Mr Edison's latest plan ■is the simplification of modern education methods through the medium or the biograph. To this project he intends to devote the next few. years of his life, and a fortune of £600,000. ! The famous electrician declares 'that with the biograph he can teach children what heretofore they have been compelled to painfully learn by means of printed words, figures, and diagrams. _ . _• "In this way," says Mr Edison,, "any concrete thing can be learned with a maximum.of-efficiency and a minimum of effort." THE STEEL TRUST. ITS DISSOLUTION DEMANDED. : , New York, May 7. The hearing of evidence in the case against the Steel Trust, the dissolution of which has been demanded by the Federal Government, was begun .yesterday. Evidence will be taken in other cities also. The proceedings in New York will probably last two months, and it is possible that a whole year will elapse before the United States, Circuit in Trenton, New Jersey, where the suit was filed, will deliberate upon the evidence. ' ' y I DPWJE'S PORTRAIT. MORE DISCORD IN ZION CITY. ■.. Chicago, May 7. ' Pastor Voliva, General Overseer of the Christian Catholic.*■ Church in Zion City, announces that-he intends (to contest Mrs Jane Dowie's right to use'a portrait of the late "Elijah" Dowie which appears in a number of publications issued by the church. Mrs Dowie has filed a suit in Chicago seeking to restrain Pastor Vnliya from using, her late husband's picture in any way. THE TITANIC. THE SEARCH FOR BODIES. £14,000 FOUND IN VICTIMS' CLOTHES. PASSENGERS' LOSSES,' £400,000. Halifax, "Msty 7. Another Government steamer has been despatched from Halifax to make a further search'for any .bodies that may still be'floating in tho vicinity of where the Titanic went, down. This vessel will make a two weeks' cruise, and the White Star Co.'s officials are hopeful of morp bodies being picked up. Tho Government is in possession of £14,000,-which represents the total amount of money found in the clothes of those victims whose remains were recovered. Of 17 victims whose bodies we.ro found by the steamer Minia ..-only .one, according to the doctor who examined the remains, died, from asphyxia by drowning. All ,the others had, perished from exposure hours after the Titanic foundered. New York, May 7. All those insurance offices in which passengers sailing by the Titanic had ' taken oiib policies have decided to settle, without further evidence, the claims' that have been made against them. The losses amountt to *400,000.