GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 401, 9 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

{Br TELBGBAPB—PttEJS ASSOCIITION— COPTBiaDT.) UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN • ' TARIFFS. : ; (Rec. January 8, 10.5 p.ni;) i • i New York, January s. The' Chamber of : Commerce: of Xew York has. initiated a national movement in favour ofV a. reciprocity treaty with Canada. INDIAN RIOTS~SUBSIDING. I . (Reo; January 0, 1.3 a.m.) Calcutta, January 8. Owing to the action of leading Mohammedans, tho riots in India are subsiding. ■ A BEQUEST. , . . ■ ~ ■ London, . January. 8/ 1 ' :' The estate of the late Mr; Jariiea'Matki' Wood, shipowner, is valued "af a million. Ho. bequeathed a. quarter,of.,a million- to the Liverpool Merchants' Cruild for tho granting of'pensions' totheS'better' classes from 60 years upwards. •; SUSPENSION REMOVED. Now YOrh, January 7. .Tho American athletes who were suspended by tho Amateur Athletic Union for alleged . professionalismj have been 1 reinstated, as the charges;against them' were not sustained. ' .(I'lie athletes suspended included' - Sheppard,Bacon, and Porter,. winners of four events at the Olympic games in London;] . ' ■ : .v ;V -'.' : .'v- -' INDIANS IN THE. TRANSVAAL. <-■ I : , , London, .January 7. . - In a: letter '.to "The Times," signed by many influential South Africans, protest is made agamst the continuance of anti-Indian legislation in the Transvaal: 'In 1908, the letter states, nine hundred British Indians, many of them highly; -educated, were ■ imprisoned for passive resistance to tho! colony's regulations. '•' :; . AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALLERS. _ London, January 7. Too Mayor of Windsor entertained ' th& Wallabies (the Australian amateur footballers), who -visited the Castle. .The 'team will leave Liverpool on January 23 for America, wheire several matches have'been arranged..;. ' ' ■ CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS: " ■i, :Brisbane, January 8. faevcral cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis have occurred m this city. Two -of the oases resulted fatally. 1