GENERAL CABLE ITEMS,

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 10 March 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE ITEMS,

[PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] THE AMERICAN NAVY

NEW-YORK, March 8. - The United States Navy League Convention at Los Angeles debated tho question of the strength of the Pacific fleet. Rear-Admiral Cone pointed out that the American Navy in the*-future would burn oil instead of coal, and consequently would be independent of coaling bases. This would mean increased effectiveness. GROTESQUE PARIS FASHION'S. LONDON, March 8. The Nottingham .Chamber of CommoFoe resolved' that the grotesc[ue Paris fashions are gravely injuring the textile trade. A NEW SHALE FIELD. LONDON, March 8. . A shale field hss boon discovered on Lord1 Rosebery's Dalmeny property, which, it-is believed, extends under the- Firth of Forth into Fifeshiro, ensuring; the indefinite prolongation of the Scottish oil industry. OFFICIAL SCANDAL. NEW YORK, March 8. Mr R A. Ballinger, Secretary for tho Ir.torior, in resigning, said that he intended to-prosecute his accusers who had alleged that he was involved in the alleged official scandals. Mr W. L. Fisher, member for Chicago, succeeds Mr Ballinger. COPTIC CONSIDERATION. LONDON, March 8. The Morning .Post and?the-Man-chester Guardian uphold the Coptic demands for religious toleration and political and civil equality, as against Sir Eldon Gorst's recent declaration that the Copts received due consideration. A FRENCH MONUMENT TO KING EDWARD. PARIS, March S. A committee has been formed to erect a monument, to King Edward at nnCSA NEW DEPARTURE. PARIS, March 8. The Courts have made a new deDarture in restitution of conjugal fights cases, by firing the wife for every day's delay in complying with the order. El-SOLDIER EMIGRANTS. LONDON, March 8. : ) Lieutenant^General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew hfas been elected chairman a of the Central Emigration Board's c Special Committee to deal with the j emigration, of ex-soldierri. ' . $ A LONG-DRAWN-OUT CASE. c MELBOURNE, March 9. f This is the 13th day of the hearing a of the territory case of South Aus-- I tralia v. Victoria. '.The Chief Justice strongly commented on counsel's action in overloading th.f» case'-with irrelevant jr<atter, declaring it a scandal to the administration of justice. OBITUARY. SYDNEY, March 8. Senator J C Neild is dead. [Neild, Senator Colonel Hon. John J Cash j born in Bristol in January, 1846. Ho was in New Zealand from is 1853 to 1860, and since them had resided in Sydney. He was the author I of several Acts in New South Wales, F including the Old Age Pensions Act. 1 He was elected Senator in 1901 and g again in 1903. He was the senior a Senator, and was Deputy-Chairman of 1< 'the Senate.] SWIMMING. 1 'SYDNEY, March 9. The 440yde championship resulted as follows:—Longworth 1, Healy 2. • Wright 3. Won by 20 yards in smin 31see.

A BILLET DECLINED. NEW YORK, MarcK 8. Howard Elliott, President of the Northern Pacific Railway Company has declined the presidency of the Missouri Pacific Company. OTHER RESIGNATIONS.

NEW YORK, MarcK 8. Mr Fred Dennett, CommissionerGeneral of the Land Office, resigns as well as Ballinger, the Secretary for the Interior. *