GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7024, 12 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright MEDICAL STUDENT’S DEATH. LONDON, January 10. A search for two Edinburgh medical men, who went duck shooting on tho Firth of Forth, and failed to return, has resulted in tho recovery of tho body of Dr R. M. Nicholson, whose father resides at Beualia, Victoria. THE NEW GUINEA SYNDICATE. LONDON, January 10. Tho members of the Papuan' syndicate include Viscount Esher, member of tho Committee of Imperial Defence, Sir C. Buan-Sniith, formerly Minister at Tangier; Sir Martin* Conway, tho wellknown traveller; Sir Wosthy Perceval, formerly Agent-General of Now Zealand ; tho Hon. J. G. Jenkins, South Australian ox-Agcut-Gencral; Mr W. Bridges Wchb, chairman of tho Baltic Shipping Exchange, and Mr O. A. Darling. FIRE IN A PALACE. ST. PETERSBURG, January 10. A lire in tho Palace of tlio Grand Duke Nichola Nicholaievitch, granduncle of tho Czar, in St. Petersburg, destroyed priceless collections of dia-mond-studded armour and porcelain. RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (Received January 11, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 11. Good timely rains have fallen, over a 'widely scattered area of the State, and, agricultural and pastoral reports generally are very favourable. MINOR ITEMS. A man found a gold nugget weighing 121 ounces in his orchard at Mudgeo, 190 miles north of Sydney. The Earl of Meath, founder of the" Empire Day movement, and tho Countess of Meath have started for a visit to Australia. They will remain till the spring. The police raided a well-known publishing house in Vienna, and confiscated 3000 orotic publications, valued at £OOOO.