GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10402, 16 July 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

From the Australian Papers. , CANADA’S GREAT DOCK. Several bids have been received by the Canadian Government for Construction of a dry dock, which will probably be the largest of its kind in the world. It is to be built either at Levis or on the St. Charles River, East Quebec, and will be HSO feat long, 137 feet wide, and 87 feet deep. The Government does no fc propose to undertake the work of construction, but the company submitting the best plans will race ve a bonus of per cent., for 85 years on an expenditure of £1,000,000. BOXER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. After much argument of the legal points involved in the case Jim Barry, the American heavy weight boxer, who stands charged with having assaulted Mr Webb, fourth officer of the R.M.S. Zealandia, during the voyage from Sydney to Vancouver, was at Vanoouer last week further remanded, in order to allow of an Investigation of the marine law. The defence demands the production of evidence to prove that such a ship as the Zealandia exists, and that “she is a properly registered vessel. Evidence also is wanted regarding the steamer’s exact position at sea when the assault was committed. BINDING THE EMPIRE. At a luncheon given by the Constitutional Club is honour of Mr G. S Foster, Canadian Minister for Trade and Commerce, Mr Austen Chamberlain, M.P., who presided, in /speaking to one of the toasts, said : “We owe the first step in the system of Imperial trade preference to the late Government of Canada. Mr Foster has been successful in linking Oanada and the West Indies, and he is now engaged in an effort to link the oversea Dominions among themsleves. I blush to think for a moment that you will be precluded from* the hope that the Motherland should take part in such a commercial union—but it is only for a moment Before long you will have a different Government. There will soon be a Government in office in this country that will grasp the hand extended So you, thus creating bonds of commercial union that will foster and cement the strength of the Empire and offering an example of productie Imperialism.

MEETING OF TSAR &HD KAISER. The lickal Anzaiger, one -of. the leading Berlin. dailies, emphasises the statement that the presence of unseroEs Ministers at the approaching interview hat ween the Tsar and the Kaiser In the BalSio proves that the meeting is no mere civility. Both monarohg, adds the paper, are friends o£ psacs. and aspire, with ail the other great Powers, to seccre the maintenance of the stains quo in the Balkans.