GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

K TP-EOBAPH—PRESS' ASSOCIATION—COPYBIOHT. ' :. , ,LAWisr 'TENNis. - (Rec. Dec. 1, 4.30 p.m.) , Melbourne, Docembor 1. . In the contest for tho Tonnis Championship of Victoria, Parkor (formerly of Wellington) beat Dunlop, B—6, 7 —5, 7 —5. ITALIAN' BRIGANDS TORTURE A CAPTIVE. Rome, November 29. Brigands near Naples captured and tortured the Marquis Cito with a view to ransom. The'ringleader of the brigands, a former policeman, has been arrested. INDIAN RAILWAY STRIKE OVER. Bombay ( November 29. The railway men have resumed work. They have assented to the dismissal of Engliken—a strike leader whose dismissal led to a resumption of tho strike—and havo agreed to. raise a fund to support him and all Unionists dismissed. PLOT IN MONTENEGRO. , Cetinje, November 29. Six leaders of the Montenegrin Opposition, including two former Ministers, were arrested in connection with tho recent plot against Princo Nicholas. They were chained with cannon shot. i THE OLYMPIC GAMES. Bucharest, November 29. M. Zappa, a Greek resident of Roumania, has bequeathed a million francs to Greece in order to ensure a continuation of the Olympic games. i FANNING ISLAND. , Suva, November 30. Fanning Island has' been sold for £25,000 to Father Rougier. , SUFFRAGETTES EJECTED. London, November 29. Many suffragettes were ejected from a. meeting at Brixton, addressed by the President of tho Education Board, Mr. R. M'K.enna. According to tho Auckland "Star," a further search for the Elingamite treasure is to be undertaken as soon as weather conditions are favourable, probably oarly in January. The syndicate interested in tho salvage operations' have decided not to again take tho auxiliary schooner Huia from her ordinary running between Kaipara and Lyttelton, and tho work will be carried out by tho s.s. Claymore. Captain D. jYl'Kenzie, of tho Huia, and thoso who accompanied the past expeditions to tho Three Kings, will" form the party. Coin to the valuo of £16,000 is still in the sunken wreckage, but as its whereabouts has boon definitely located, it is expected that, with a fairly calm sea, tho wholo amount will be recovered in a few days. A total of £1200 was realised at tho sale of a collection of proofs, essays, and colour trials of early British postage stamps which was concludod at Mesrs. Puttick and Simpson's galleries. Miss V. Isherwood, who has resigned Iter position as a teacher at tho Petono School, was presented with a parting souvenir by her fcllofr-teaohors. On Friday about thirty children from tho Thorndon School paid a visit of inspection to the Wellington Woollen Company's mills and the Gear Meat Works at Potone. Tho whole process of weaving from tho wool to the finished article was shown at tho woollen mill, and all : the latest appliances and machinory in connection with tho meat industry were shown during tho visit to the meat works.