GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 78, 26 December 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

oz rEKGRArn—γ-hebs association— ooptrioitj, EN ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC. (Rec. Dec. 25, 10.26 a.m. , New York, December 24! Tho United States fleet, on routo to tho Pacific,, via Cape Horn, under Xdiniral Evans, has arrived at t'rio' ■■ British Island of Trinidad, off. the coast of Venezuela. DONATIONS FOR CHILDREN'S , MEALS. -' Loridonj December-24; . Tim Prince and Princess of Wales havo subscribed £50 to tho fund for feeding needy scholars, started by the London County Council, tho Moderate majority of which body j considers that •.'meals., forl. under-fed school children are moro fairly, a charge on private subscriptions than on the already burdened rato3. ■ , •■

, DEATH OR PROFESSOR JANSSEN. .... •• • P?r|?i December 24. '■ Obituary: Professor Janson,'physicist. -,'.,-.: BLOODLESS DUEL. ' :'';. '• : ••' ' ViertoS; Deceml-, The Hungarian Premier and Herr Polon os-Minis'ter .for Justice,■ fonght a duel . Budapest, owing to a Parliamentary quarrol.. Aftor two bloodless..-Jbo.ut;a ■ tho combatants wore reconciled to, each pther. -, ;•. MURDERED AND ROBBED IN A-TRAIN. R6Jn6, .;Deoemlbof"23. A wealthy ongineer of-Vorona dead in tho Ilomc-Anoona■ express.;'Ho had boen stabbed thrice in. , the body,; r a.nd;.;his clothes had boon rilled of"titlb deeds "valued at;£l4,ooo. ,; ■',': ■' \ "': '■•' ■■ i. .' SABBATH RESTRICTIONS'BREAK DOWN. '' ' " :i ' '■■-' i Men York, December 23. Tho Sabbatarian restrictions in Now York have failed, and Sunday "entertainments havo recommenced at the theatres-nnd-dnnc-'injr-halls. _: • • — ; — i— ' The Supreme Court of New-York decided that Sunday amusements, inclnding; sacred concerts, wore illegal.''Subsequently it was reported that some actors and actresses had been arrested. AUSTRIAN EDITION OF KOPENICIt EPISODE. Vienna, December 23.' An imitator of tho Kopcniek "hero" gained accoss to the Regimental safe at Vienna atscnul, and abstracted £1200. At Kpponick, in Germany; a - cobbler dressed up as 'ail officer, and ordered somo soldiers to 1 arrest the Mayor of Die town., \Vhen this was done, the cobbler heloed himself' to* the funds. 110 ended up in gaol. ' • ". ' ■ NEW STEAMER.:- ■' : London, 23i' Goorgo Thompson and Company's twinscrew steamer Pericles, with .a ..tonnage 'of between 11,000 and 12,000, built : by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, for tho Australian trade, has been launched!-*'•■•■' ' BOILER BURSTS-.' : Sydney, Decombor 24.J \ Tho boilor in a flourniill-at- Narribri burst and' wrecked tho building considerably. Tho gaol -opposite was also damaged.": ,No olio was seriously injured. GENEROUS JAPANESE. Sydney, December 23.; Japanese naval officers and crows, who recently visited Sydney, donated £143 towards tho building fund of tho Royal Naval Houso,- in appreciation of.kindness received. PROROGUED. ; Sydney, December 24., The State Parliament has teen prorogued Jill Fehruary 4* "V' i>