GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

[Bt TELEGIUrE— PUrss association—cortniGin.), UNITED STATES FLEET, (lkc. January 5, 0.30 a.m.) Suez, January 4. The United States Fleet, under Admiral Sperry, has arrived at Suez. LONGBOAT AGAIN BE.ATS DORANDO? ~ ' New York, January 4. Tom Longboat, tho Canadian Red Indian i who rcbentlyi beat the Italian Dorando m ,a MiiTfttnon race., won a' 25' miles "race" at Buffalo. Dorando again collapsed, and relinquished the contest at tho ninoteenth mile. .CRICKET: , ' Melbourne, January 4. The intor-Stato cricket match, South Australia v. Victoria, was not continued owing to heavy rain. TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFIC'. London, January 3. Tho Transatlantic passenger. traffiO' for 1908 shows a shrinkage of a million persons, as compared ivith 1907. 1 SUICIDE OF A TRAINER. London, January 3. Edwin Couch, the Newmarket trainer, though ho had arranged to return to Perth, West Australia, on December 29, with a consignment of thoroughbieds for stock purposes, disappeared for some days, and was only traced after ho had, committed suicide with a revolver at Exeter. ■ CONSTABLE MORTALLY WOUNDED. Adelaltto, January 4. While attempting to arrest some suspicious characters, Constable Hyde was shot m the jaw. His recovery is hopeless. Tho assailants escaped.