GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6176, 6 April 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telcgraph-Prcas Association-Copyright. LONDON, April 4. Salvationist emigrants to the number of 1400 left Liverpool for Canada aboard the Southwark. 'The Grand Lodge of Good Templars has adopted a resolution prohibiting dancing at meetings in connection with the order. Eight bluejackets escaped in a cutter, during darkness, from the battleship Mars, which was lying at Portland. They landed at 'Weymouth, and took train for London. PARIS. April 4. Wilding and Ritchie won the French covered court doubles championship at Paris. Wilding and Miss Smith won tho mixed doubles. MELBOURNE, April 3. Tho Mount Lyell Company, from February 28th to March 27th, treated 32,698 tons of ore, also 1320 tons of purchased ore, for a yield of 60S tons blister copper, containing COX tons of copper, 43,001 ounces of silver, 1387 ounces of "old. Mr Elwood Mead, Chief Engineer of tho Irrigation Department of Washington, has been appointed Chairman of tho Victorian Divers and Waters Supply Commission, at a salary of £I2OO per annum. SYDNEY, April 4. Mr Johnson, Chief Railway Commissioner, has arrived. Tho appointment of tho new Commissioners is gazetted, and they take office to-day. In tho inter-State bowling contest. Now South Wales, winning two nut of three games, defeated Victoria by 99 against 92. * Tho High Court has granted an appeal against the Supremo Court's decision in tho case against Brown, the 'juror in the Crick-Willis case who was stated to have decided upon his verdict before the evidence was concluded.