GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7027, 15 January 1910, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A CARNEGIE LIBRARY. (Received January 15, 0.50 a.m.) PERTH, January 14. .The Midland Junction Municipality has received from Mr Andrew Carnegie a promise of £ISOO towards a library. OBITUARY. (Received January 15, 0.50 a.m.) PERTH, January 14. Mi- Thomas Riseley, tho pioneer discoverer of gold in West Australia, is dead. AN ALPINE ACCIDENT. GENEVA, January 13. Dr Shiver, of Munich, was crossing the Alps when his guide, Hermann Binner, of Zermatt, slipped over a precipice on the Broithorn. The doctor held tho man by a rope for two hours, and was almost exhausted, when a party of Italian smugglers who were crossing the pass rescued both. . LUDERITZ DIAMOND FIELDS. BERLIN, January 14. The German Colonial Office states that the average production of diamonds in Gorman South-west Africa amounts to £IOO,OOO per annum. . The rights of Gorman companies have been assured against the greedyi attacfe of Cape Colony by the Government proclaiming a monopoly, and there is no further danger, state the officials, of the diamond fields passing into English hands. SETTLEMENT IN ALBERTA. LONDON, January 13. Mr Peterson,' manager of the. Canadian Pacific Irrigation and Colonisation Company, in a paper before the Royal Colonial Institute on the Pacific Company's project, announced that his company was providing ready-made farms for settlers eastward of Calgary, in Alberta, with loans to settlers for further improvements. FLYING MEN AT LOS ANGELES. SAN FRANCISCO, January 13. Air Glen H. Curtiss, the American aviator, will receive £IOOO for appearing for a -week at Los Angeles, in addition to prizes. , -nirOvi. M. - Paulhan, who reoenves £SUOU appearance money, made a fifty-, minutes' flight, ascending 4600 feet. MEMORIAL TO BLUEJACKETS. SYDNEY, January 14. A memorial to the bluejackets belonging to the warship Encounter who lost their lives in the harbour disaster in January, 1909, through collision with tho steamer Dunmore, has been unveiled in Rookwood Cemetery. > MINOR. ITEMS. The Hotelkeepers' Union in Berlin has issued a manifesto imploring would-be suicides not to patronise hotels. 'A three-year-old child at Donald, 175 miles nortii-west of Melbourne, -.found and drank a pint of whisky, and died from the effects. Bv a largo majority,, the headmasters at the British Schools'. Conference defeated a resolution-opposed to military training in schools. , M. Edmond Rostand, the- French dramatist, has realised £26,000 for the rights to publish in serial form his farmyard'play "Chanticler" before its 'production on the stage. Soaking rain, the heaviest and most general that has occurred for a-long dime, is being experienced in New South Wales, and. will be of great benefit to the whole State. There were no signs of the weather breaking _last night. A good fall at Broken. Hill, where a water famine was threatened, has relieved the .position of residents.