GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 4 March 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

APPOINTMENTS. (Press Association. —Copyuiget.) LONDON", Yesterday. Captain M. P. Hankey has been appointed Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, in succession to Rear Admiral Sir Charles Ottley, who becomes managing director of the Elswic'K works. RAIN IN BRISBANE. (Received 10.20 a.m.) BRISBANE. This Day. Much-needed splendid rain s aTO ] falling. RETURN OF H.M.S. PROMETHEUS. (Received 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. The warshiD Prometheus arrived safely from Hongkong under' convoy of the Cambrian. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. LONDON, Yesterday. The first batch of Australian naval ratings have sailed. WAR OFFICE. LONDON. Yesterday. The War Office is inviting tenders returnable by June sth for 375,000 12ounce. and 60,500 24-ounce tins of preserved meat, for deliverv early in October. ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. LONDON, Yesterday. In the international Association game Scotland scored a goal to Wales' nil. NEW BANK. MONTREAL, Yesterday. At Montreal a mercer has been consummated between thp Bank of Commerce and the Eastern Townships Bank. The capital stock of the new bank is three million sterling. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. WASHINGTON, Yesterday. The Democratic caucus ratified the Sugar Bill and the Income Tax Bill. WRESTLING. NEW YORK. Ycsterdav. At Chicago Mahmout defeated Peder son in straight falls for the world's wrestling championship. 1 TNDIA. CALCUTTA. Yesterday. Tlie Budget shows that the Durbmr~=t Tt states that fears of incTeaeerl taxation, owinrr to the new capital will not be realised. Tho first ontlav on Delhi would bn £1.333,000. SWIMMING. SYDNEY. YesterdavDickman won the mile swimmine rham-,.:o"--Hn <-f New South Wacs in 24mm 34 2-5 sees. ! FIRE. R \XCOOX. A fire d*«ti-ov«d pir-ht sawmills ami 45 tirph"'- /'-not*. The damage is estimated at £66.000 sterling. ~~Me«srs Baldwin and Ravward. whose l„o»1 representative is Mr 0. Eangley Bell estate atrent. Trafalcrar-streot report that amonest the many anohcations for oat-nts the,- have just filed are :- r A Roueh. Foxton. fl*x r" C,' Hall Auckland, clock dial : I<. yv . Vi-kermnn.' Waneanni. casein *xtract,on „„d r .c ? in drvinc H. n. mcBrearty, Gladstone, vehicle <shoe brake.