GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

HT TELEGRAPH-—PRESS ASSOCIATION-—COPYRIGHT ZOLA AND HIS WORKS. (Rcc. March -20, 10.-45 p.m.) ■■■ • • Paris, Maroh 20. The Chamber of Deputies voted a credit to meet, the .'cost of- : transferring* 'M. t Zola's, remains to the Pantheon.; 'ANationalist/ Deputy caused'a violent scene by ' denouncing Zola's works as filthy.,-

Tiicr Pantheon is tlje Church of St:. Gene-' vieye, in Paris, a'largo classical building in ; the form of a Greek, cross, :276ft. by 370 ft:, with a central .'dome'272ft. high and 75 "in diameter. ' The Corinthian- columns -of .tho-' entrance portico are Sift. high. The pediment is filled with a, sculptured group by David d'Angers, representing—.Prance - distributing laurels to her deservine children. The.original . church ' was. ! jn'obably, "destroyed /by the' Normans in the .ninth century. ;'ln''.l76l the preseiit church/<was, begxin under Louis '-XV; and in 1791. was first set "apart for its present purpose—that of a mausoleum for famous Frenchmen— though it hps,.sines at,times/been used as a' church..; -:v v.-. ■ ■: v ;•' PRIME MINISTER'S HEALTH, . London, March 19. Tho slight improvement in the condition of Sir H. Campboll-Bannerinari is being maintained. Ho passed a good night, and appears comfortable. ARREST OF AN ANARCHIST. Madrid, March 19. Felix' Modina, an Anarchist shoemaker, was arrestei at Seville on a q{ia^q ; of.eocrotlj£ burying eighteen out iqfi his'Wenty-feo.'.chil-dren in infancy, in tiio poufse of tiyenty years. • /■' i ' BANK ROBBERY. London," March" 19'. A caller induced tlio cashier of tbe-South-ampton branch of Lloyd's Bank to go into the street to speak to'a supposed gouty omupa'nt of a cab. Mq'anwhilo tho caller docamped with a thousand pounds in notes and cash. The occupant of'tho cablikcwiso disappeared. ■ RISE IN SUGAR. . Sydney, March 20. Tho Colonial Sugar Company, has advanced prices by 10s. all round. THE PLAGUE. . Sydney,' March 20., Thirty-throe plaguc-infectod rata ..wore found in Sussex Street. : ' • . ..