ROUND THE WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 7

ROUND THE WORLD.

THINGS SEEN THAT ARE READ ABOUT. ' SIR. WILLIAM CABLE ON . TOUR. When Mr. : .William Cable, left; Now York for Liverpool on his recent tour of tho world, ho travelled by tho Baltic, • which carried: 2500 pagtongers,-and recoived news per Marconigrnph a't all hours of the day and night. Ho says that one could tell when a message had been picked up by the rattling of the apparatus; which ;, emitted a sharp sound like the' clatt'cr. of bones in a minstrel show. They did''not publish a paper on tho Baltic, but posted tho'news up on a board.. Arrived in tho' j)ld' ; vOountry lv .Mr..Cnblo .at orice began a comprehensive tour.. of tho United Kingdom! After, visiting,tho; different contres of thii North, lie went to London, and fthon tburedjj in-tho beautiful county of Devonshire,' andi'also visited Bristol, Avonmouth,'.Colchester; Birmingham,; and Bath'. He .went to Jiklinburgh to see tho Royal Agricultural ShoW, arid wliilo thero inspected the Forth Bridgb, was a magnificent piece of engineering work. 'It was of this, bridge that tho ijlesigner: of tho. St; Lawrence bridge at Quebec (which afterwards collapsed) said that if it had,boon designed,in Aiherica tho cosjr would have been returned to >.the shareholders. Tho St. Lawrence bridge, completed, toppled into the "river, but.tljd Forth is good for a long time to come. . • . ■ The shipbuilding tTado was found to be in a,very bad way indeed at Home. The only, reason Cable-could givo was that it was a iro-acti'on after-two or three, phenomenally , busy yoars.' After', visiting tHo. Dublin Ex-, hibitiori, where; New; Zoaland seemed , to; bo very well represented,; ho visited- tho ; Lakes, of Killarney, and-, then went-noTth ; to Bel-, fast, whore ho was naturally,; very much interested in the great shipbuilding yards of Harland and Wolff, and Workman and Clark. In'the yards of tho last-mentioned firm ho saw.: tho new Shaw, Savill steamer Kia'Ora (for" tho- New. trado) - being built. These yards were; tho exception .to tho rule • —they were, very busy, and Harland' and Wolff were altering their; yards to lay down tw0.50,000 tonncrs—one for tho White Star Line and the other for the Germans! After an interesting visit, to the Giant's Causeway, he grossed to Glasgow, visited Denny Bros', yard ' at; ; Dumbarton, whero tho Maori. wa-s boifig finished -off, and looked over Scott and Co.'s big works' at -Greenopk, and th 6 . steel works at Motherwell. Next he visited Dundee' and -Aberdeen', and journeyed tho full length of Inverness, and down again by way of the, Caledonian Canal.'. Tho season -in Scotland was a v;ery. bad one,. on account of the,;b'ad winter..and^spring,.and it"was esti-mated-that thb-.loss to tho' farmers would be between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000. After a fow- 'days spent' in . Fifeshirb and Kin-. toss, ..the Trossachs' and - Loch ■ Lomond were visited. : : Going' south',- Mr. .Cable called at Newcai>tle-on-Tyiie,' whero lie'saw tho .Ma'uretania receiving herfinishing touches. At Sheffield'ho was,shown over Tickers, Maxim, ■ and Co.'s'cim works, arid over.Armstrong and ..Whitworth's factory at Manchester.. .. . 1 Leaving England] on November .8, lie visited Paris.. Switzerland, and .the principal cities- of . Italy, ,before embarking',at Naples on' tho' Oruba. Mr. Cablp declares that, ho never experienced any real summer weather, until he reached the Mediterranean. In connection with Mr. Cable's reference to a.bad season in Scotland, it may bo noted that a cablegram in yesterday's Dominion Btated'that the Marquis; of Linlithgow had remitted £5000, of rent monoy te his tenants on.account of the bad'harvest; /