GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6311, 11 September 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright PROGRESS OF THE PANAMA CANAL. LONDON, September 9. One-tenth of the excavation of the Panama Canal is completed. There are 30,000 labourers busy under the supervision'of an army of engineers. MAGNESITE DEPOSITS. SYDNEY, September 10. An immense deposit of magnesite has been discovered at Fifield. The University authorities expatiate on the value of the deposit in the manufacture of fire bricks and furnace linings. ASSISTANCE FOR CHARITIES. MELBOURNE, September 10. The Premier (the Hon. T. Bent) is inclined to bring in a Bill to assist charities by taxing football matches, theatres, and race meetings. BEQUEST FOR A HOSPITALMELBOURNE, September 10. Tie trustees of the late Mr Edward Wilson, o 1 the ‘‘Argus,” have offered the committee of the Melbourne Ho-r----pi'al or-ehundred thousand pounds to build a naj hospital. LAWN TENNIS. LONDON, September S. At tennh A. F. Wilding beat Otto Fro?trheim in the final of the men’s s.'Mtucu at Baden-Baden, by 6—3, 6—2, 6—i> Last Week, iroiwo. defeated "Wilding in the final ic. the L-unburg Onp, 6—4, 6—2, 6—3.