GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEQUAPIt—PRESS ASSOCIiTION—COPTBIdiij NEW FORM OI 1 PLEA FROM UNITED . , STATES. Vj/ ,;;' . ' , (Rcc. May 18j 10 p.hi.) ; ■ ; . 1 Now York, May 18. Montgomery,* cltshier of. the' Alleghatiy N4tional Bank (Pittsburg), charged- Jfrith 'abBcoiitliiig • with £27;d06, boloiigiiig to ! Bank; pleads that lib was liloiie^-mad!

KUBELIK. ' ; , Brisbane, May 18. ■ Kubclik,. thb violirtistj and his Wife, are passengers by • the Mamma, ■rt'hich has arrived ffoin Vancouver. . ' : ! . RESEARCH IN TlliS BISMARCK ' GiIOUP. Berlin, ;Alay 17;.-, A German soiebtifio expedition has left Hamburg to study dative customs in the Bismarck Archipelago; ' LORD OVERTOTJN'S ESTATE. ■ • London, May 17. The late Lord Overtoiin's personalty, has boon sWorn at i£C90,530,,:and the realty at £58,700. • \ / . \ ■ SNOWED UP; Sydney, May 18. Mr. H; James, with three ladies, wis snowed uj> in; a > motor-car; ht Kiandra, a district 4000 ft., to 50fl0f,t.\ above sea-level.' The party, suffered a ternble experience before, with assistance, the 1 car \vas got, out of tlio mountains. i "rr : . - . PEARLING DISASTER; Perth, May 18. A pearling lugger whidli fras disabled id the rccont cyclone . has bf&n; towed into Broome, with the dead bodies of two of the Asiatic crew on board. EMPIRE ADVERTISING AND THE • / " STANDARD." / . Sydney, May 18. New South Wales has declined to. participate in the Commonwealth scheme of advertising in the weekly supplement of the London "Standard." The State Premier (Mr. Wade) bonsiders the generAl polity rf the "Standard" iii relation to Australian questions altogether .at variance with the policy of both Australia arid, NeW South Wales. . ' Tho Premier of Victoria, Mr. Bent, recently stated that he h&d arranged with Mr. Deakin for Victoria to bear a share pf the cost of advertising Australia in the London "Standafd" supplement., The Victorian Government Would, he added, pay one-third of the cost to three months. West Australia was itlSo bearing a share of the expenses, but he did not know if New South AVales. was participating. Questioned as to what it would cost Victoria altogether, the Premier replied, "Two ' hufadred pounds.