GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 67, 12 December 1907, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

• : — BY TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COITRIGHT. ANOTHER BIG AMERICAN FAILURE. (Rec. Dec. 11, 9.3S p.m.) New York, December 11. The Electric Vehicle Company of New Jersey has suspended. Its capital is four million sterling. LITHGOW IRONWORKS. Sydney, December 11. Tho Lithgow Smelters' Union has adopted a resolution asking the Ironworkers' Union to consider a proposal to acquire interests in Sandford's works by investing £50,000 therein. RAILWAYS POOL. London, Decembor 10. Great Northern Railway stock to tho amount of £60,000 changed hands at a singlo doal, in view of the pooling arrangemeut3 with tho Groat Central Railway, which wore entered into to avoid excessive competition. A VICAR'S ERROR. . London, December 10. The Rev. J. H. Taylor, charged with drunkenness on the occasion when he road the burial service in mistake for the marriago service, has booh' sentenced by the Bishop of Bath and Wells to of liis office. BREACH OF A PROMISE TO A MARRIED WOMAN. . London, December 10. The divorced wife of Colonel Atherton sued John Reginald Yarde-Bullor, who was corespondent in tho divorco 'action, for breach of promise. The ease was settled on the basis of defendant admitting the breach, and l paying costs. The promise was made wliilo plaintiff was a married woman. AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYED. \ New York, December 10. Tho unemployed in New York city are estimated at 125,000.' According to recent cablegrams from Britain and Europo, America has been sending a large number of her dismissed employees LONDON COUNTY BOOK-KEEPING.' London, December 10. Mr. Edwin Waterhouse has completed a special commercial audit into tho Works Department accounts of tho London County Council. Ho reports that tho department, from , a commercial standpoint, indicates sound, careful management. Efficient and accurate rccords of transactions have been kept. CAPE COLONY LOAN. London, Docember 10. Tho Cape Colony loan, with a ten years' currency, has .boon over-subscribed. Applicants received CO per cent. SWEDISH CONSUL'S VISIT. Sydney, December 11. Count Morner, Swedish Consul-General for Australasia, left for Auckland by tho Atua, via tho Islands.. Ho wil IspQgd soven months in New Zealand studying the political, social, and industrial conditions, also bird life.