GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEGRAPH—rHISS ASSOCIATION— COPTRIGHT. MURDERER EXECUTED. (Rec. Nov!'26,: 10.50 p.m.). Sydney, November 26. George Tofft, who was'sentenced to death on a charge of shooting- , Maud Fletcher at Quirindi on July, 29 last, while in a fit of jealousy, was executed at Taimvorth. Death was instantaneous. WHIRLWIND WRECKS FARMS. . London, November 26. A whirlwind wrecked. a number of. farms in East Kent. '. .'" . ' ' NEW ZEALAND CABLE. : Sydney, November 26. Tho cable steamer Patrol left to-day to overhaul the New Zealand. cable. SYDNEY. .WOOL SALES. i Sydney, November 26.' At tho wool sales business is brisker, and prices show an all-round improvement. COLLIERIES BUSY. Sydney, November 26. All the collieries are in full work, ■ and coal is coming forward for shipment.

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL COL VILE.

London, November 25,

The motor cycle' , of Major-Genoral 'Sir Honry Colvilo coTHaed at Bisloy. with tho motor-car of General Sir Henry Rawlinson. Major-General Colvilo died of his injuries.

Major-Genera 1 Sir 11. E. Colville served in Egypt in the eighties, and won many honours. Ho also commanded,the Ninth Division in the I!oi>r war. He has written histories. of the Sudan and the South African'operations, also other works. - ■ ■

TENEMENT HOUSE.. FIRE-THIRTEEN

DEATHS. New York, November 25.

An explosion set lire to a , tenement house, in Now York. Thirteen Italians perished. Many were injured.

NAPOLEON'S WIDOW,

■ London, November 25. The King and Queen of Spain paid a visit to tho ox-Empress- Eugenie.

Eugenie, ex-Empress of tho French, is by birth a Spanish Princess being born at Granada on May 5, 1620. Sbc was tho second daughter of Don Manuel Fernandez de Montijo.

RE-ARRESTED FOR MURDER.

Capo Town, November 25.

Thomas Kcrr, of Grahamstown, has bean re-arrestcd in connection with tlio murder of-the girl Ellen Pinnock.

In tliis caso it is allcfjcil that tho body of the woman was found under Kcrr's collar, to which attention was directed by a medium named Staples. At tho first trial, Ker.r was discharged, the jury'disagreeing. I

FEDERAL 'TARIFF.

Melbourne, November 26.

Sir \V. Lyno, Federal Treasurer, sought to havo the duty on corrugntcd galvanised iron fixed at £3 10s. per ton general duty, but the House reduced it to 30s. with preference of 20s. The duty on plain galvnuisod iron was fixed at 20s. general duty, with 10s. preference. Cream separators wore placed on tho free list.

MR. ,KEIR HARDIE.

FremantlD, November 26.

Mr. Koir Hardie, Labour' member of the House of Commons, has arrived horo from India. . , . '

TEN, TEAKS FOR FORGERY,

London, Novombor 25.

John Ayling, lato partner in tho firm of Constable and Co., Edinburgh, a stepson of tho Right Hon. John Morloy, was sentenced to ton years' imprisonment on the chnrgos of forgery to which he had pleaded guilty.