CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12585, 16 October 1911, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(Australian Press Specials.)

LONDON, Oct. 12

Al an auction m Buckingham j'esterday sheep were sold at from 5s to 7s 6d.^ The Mansion House fund for the King Edward Memorial now stands at £67.---OCO.

The Scotch arid English steel firms have formulated a scheme by which they hope to be able to overcome Continental competition. „.--• : The death is reported from Edinburgh of Dr. Bell, the original of Sir A. Conari Doyle's hero, "Sherlock Holmes."

At the annual meeting of the Barmen's and Barmaids.' Union it was stated thatthe members numbered 50CO, and - had become affiliated with the* Independent Labor Party.

An old sailor, of the name of Westlake, .has just accomplished the feat of rowing from Tottenham,, the London pleasure resort, to Calais, .on the French coast. He now talks of rowing round the world. ; Searchers among the ruins at Austin.. Pennsylvania (U.S.), the scene of the recent dam-bnrst, found; a stock of diamonds valued at £2000. and ai, clock, which, although it had been submerged, was still running.. Ghouls. have been attempting to rob 'the bodies of some of the flood victims at Lincolri. Intense cold is beinjv experienced m France, and snow is. falling practically aJI over the country. The Chinese naval, prograriime' includes eight battleships, twenty cruisers, and fifty destroyers spread over ! a period of seven years.' The ships will mostly be of British construction.. The' revival m trade that ; ,has taken, place m London this week is regarded as remarkable. All the conditions m the city point -to the approach of boom. A number of colonial companies are now ready for flotation. All tho indications are that there will be a record Christmas trade. SAN, FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.. John and James M'Namara. the two brothers charged with complicity m the dynamite explosion by which, the; Los Angeles Times office was- destroyed 12. months ago. and twelve of the employes were killed, are to he tried separately;; The Californian Labor Federation has voted £20 for the defence of the men..' TORONTO, Oct, 9. The Ecumenical Methodist Congress discussed the fact of I .the jury in 'the Beattie murder trial praying for guidance m giving their verdict. The ' congress . denounced the junks' action. Prize-fighting also came m for condenir, nation, and Sir Robert W ! . Perks, one. of the English lay readers of the Baptist Church, congratulated the British Go-, vernment unon putting a stop to the Johnson-Wells contest despite the influence of big society men who were m, favor of it.