GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 403, 12 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

[by telegraph—press association—coptricst.) DALGETY AND .COMPANY. • . r- ~ (Kec. January 11 : ; 9.56 p.ia.) London, January 11. In pursuance of, the resolution passed" at a special genera! meeting in December —to increase the capital of the ,company, v ,by £1,000,000 by the. crcation r ;-'bfr-'new;;.£lp'-5 per cent, preference shares—Dalgoty and Co.; are now issuing half of the new capital. "The Times" remarks that it is a fair industrial investment, but that the_dividend_ 'not cumulative. - ••• SHIPBUILDING DISPUTES/ ■ -' London, January 11. Representatives of. capital and'labpur'; in' tho shipbuilding trade have-agreed; that ques--tions in dispute must, be referred—before, a strike or a lock-out is resorted to—to., a grand conference embodyingi>the=; , «uthprity..of. iho Employers' Federation; :and the !,twentysix workers' unions concerned. The agreement also provides for' a new and carefullyframed scheme, of wages.

; MR. BALFOUR'S HEALTH. •. London, January 11.. Mr. 'Arthur Balfour, 1 jL&'deF of the ' Opposition, who lias been, suffering, from. a feverish attack, is recovering; He will go to Biarritz. EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO. Mexico, January 10. The entire west coast of Mexico has been shaken by, an earthquake. The damage is reported to be slight.' THEFT OF VALUABLE SECURITIES^' , Paris, January, 10. A bag containing fifteen parcels of securities, valued at £40,000, has been stolen from a railway carriage in Parish - THE NAMOI RIVER MURDER. / Sydney, January . The young man Williams has been ,'com'r J mitted. for trial on the charge of murde'ring Johnstpn,' whose body' wis- found;-in Namoi River on December "18'.'v The. evidence showed that Williams sold the'horses 1 and the outfit with which he and the dead., man had previously travelled. ' ' ' / . *< ; ! STEAMER ENNERDALE • DAMAGED.—; ' Melbourne, January If. The steamor Ennordale. ;whilo en route .to this port from Greymouth, 'struok-a 1 . sunken obstruction in Bass Straits• 'on Wednesday. iiight, and received damage, causing a, slight leak. The extent of the. damage will not be known till the vessel is docked. [The steamer Ennerdalo is of 1147 tons 'gross register, and is owned, by the Maorilan'd. Steamship Company, whose local agents,, M'Arthur and Hull. SheHvas biiilt"'in l l9o2'bj ' the Ailsa S.B. Ch. Ltd., otTroon,...to,thfl..order, of R. Simpson'and Co. She" is classed 100 Al at Lloyd's,.fitted throughout, with.electricilight,'. and said to be well adapted, for the service :inwhioh the company use the coal and timber trade from Commonwealth ports to Now Zealand. The following ; are/the principal dimensions: Length, about '240i't.; beam, about 35ft.; depth, about lOt't.j •• <• NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT,YIELD.,

I . Sydnsy,, January,ll. • The Government: statistician's Tgvised .estir mate of the wheat yield; is. jOOO: bushels, an average of 12.6 bushels. acre:i--The-prolrable exportable surplus will be; 4,000,000 bushels. ' v :' - RIFLE SIIOOmG.'• . Sydney,' l Jaiiuary 11. The Rifle h^s...received an.invitation from the Nationar Rifle Association of America for an Australian team to visit 'the 'United States in September noxt.