GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 38, 8 November 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

-SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC. BT TELEGBAriI—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Rec. Nov. 7, 9;30 p.m.) ~...';, London, November 7. There are G956 scarlet fever patients in tho London hospitals, a record number. POSTAL EARLY'-CLOSING. x Melbourne, November 7. In the House of Representatives.tho Post-master-General (Mr. S. Maugcr) threatened, as a means of ovcrcomingcomplaints regarding sweating in tho Postal Department, to closo.-tb.o_ post-offices throughout the Commonwealth at six.o'clock in tho cvoning, SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. London, Novembor 6. A man named Woolterton, formerly butler to Sir C. F.' Cory-Wright," a justice of the peace, was sentenced to soven years' penal seryitudo at-the Herts Assizes, on a chargo of 'entering Sir C. F. Cory-Wright's bedroom aiid brandishing a revolver, demanding £10,000 or. the owner's life. : Woolterton accepted. £10, and ..then made an appointment to receive more. 1 --So was arrested at the rendezvous. :.;..., . \ . COAL CARGO ON FIRE. . Londih, Ncvnribcr'6. The.steamer Oceana, which left Newcastlo, New South Wales, for San F'uncisco on October 4, with, a cargo of coal, arrived' at her destination with her largo on fire. ■ MADAME MELBA. '/-.' .Melbourne, November /. Melba gives several concerts beftre leaving Australia: ■" • ' FRANCO-ENGLISH EXHIBITION. '*' Lond.in, November 6. The erection of the Australian pavilion at the Franco-English Exhibition will cost £25,000. ' It will bo a fine structure \rith._ dome 100 ft. high. The building will be completed in March. AUSTRALIAN SHOOTISTS' BLUE RIBAND. .'..■' Sydney, November 7. Tho National Piiflo Ass iciat'on has voted £25 to the fund being raised to provide a trophy for the Empire match.

COLD WEATHER -HILLS CHEEP. Sydnay, Nn ember /. The weather is very cold, and many sheep have been killed by it in the Orv.rge district. COST OF REPRESENTATION IN . LONDON. Londin, November 6. Lord Elcho stated at a meeting of tho London County Council that tb» most recent offer made by 'the Commonwei.'!th for . Strand sito ror the proposed F ; ph Commissioners' office was £3000 per ari.um below the official appraisement. It if hoped that negotiations will be. reopened as -ho had overy reason to believe that th • Commonwealth had not made a final offc-.