GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7961, 18 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LIVERPOOL DOCK RATES RAISED. LONDON, November 16. Dock tonnage rates and dock town dues at Liverpool have advanced by 10 per cent. THE COPYRIGHT BILL. LONDON, November 16. The Copyright Bill passed through committee of the House of Commons without serious amendment. BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER DROWNED. LONDON, November 16. Commander Frederick G. Brine was washed overboard from the battleship St Vincent in' the English Channel during a gale, and drowned. OLYMPIC-HAWKE COLLISION. LONDON, November 16. The Admiralty Court is heaping crossactions for damages by the Admiralty and the White Star Line, arising out of the recent collision between the leviathan liner Olympic and the warship Hawke. PRESBYTERIAN CHAPLAINCY AT OXFORD. LONDON, November 10. A conference of the Church of Scotland and tho United Free Church decided to establish a permanent chaplaincy for Presbyterian students at Oxford University, owing to the prevailing Anglican and Socialist influences there. , P. AND O. COMPANY'S DIVIDEND. LONDON, November 16. Tho Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has declared a deferred dividend of Gi per cent, and a bonus of 3 per cent. AN AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S ' SUICIDE. LONDON, November 16. Mr Maxwell, a well-known American sportsman and balloonist, who won the Gordon Bennett Cup two years ago. committed suicide by jumping from a Channel steamer. PEOPLE FOR AUSTRALIA. LONDON, November 16. The Peninsular and Oriental Co.’s Ballarat, a new one-class steamer, sails on Saturday with 1100 passengers for Australia. KAISER SUFFERING FROM A COLD. * BERLIN, November 16. The is indisposed. He is suffering "from a cold. SWISS EMBROIDERY FOR AMERICA. BERNE, November 16. In order to avoid the high American tariff on Swiss embroider}-, a SwissAmerican company has been formed,, with a capital of ,£2,000,000, to transfer the industry to America. SPANISH MUNICIPAL ELECTION. MADRID, November 10. At the municipal elections in Spain the Republicans suffered : a heavy defeat. THE STRANDING THE NIOBE. OTTAWA, November 16. Lieutenant Lord Alastair Graham was found guilty by a court-martial of causing, or suffering to bo caused, the stranding of the Canadian cruiser Niobe on July 30th. NEW SOUTH WALES HARVEST. SYDNEY, November 17. Harvesting reports indicate that the early crops are yielding better than was recently anticipated, but that there have been many failures of late crops in most districts.-