GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(HI TEHSGBAFII—VBESS ASSOCUriON—COriBIGHt.) -' » SMALL-POX. Forth, February 22. The small-pox patient on the steamer Paroo, from bingapore, was a coloured member of tbo crow. Ho succumbed to the malady. / VALUABLE DEPOSITS. Sydney, February 22. Valuable deposits or shale and cement have been discovered in the Munnllumbah district, over 400 miles north of Sydney, A TEN PEOPLE KILLED, *[ Rorn9, February 21. A landslip at, Arezzo, in tho province of Tuscany, Italy, 'overwhelmed ten. farm hands. v SPLENDID MONSOONAL RAINS. ' ' Sydney, February 22. There have boen splendid monsoonal rains in tho'"north-eastern and southern districts! A good season is assured. ARRESTED ON SUSPICION. (Rec. February 22, 11,50' p.m.) Sydnoy, February 22, Two men have been arrested m Sydney on suspioion of being concorned in tho shooting of Constable Hydo at AdolaiJe on January 2. >

STOCK STATISTICS. ". (Rec. February 22, 11.60 p.m.) Sydney, Febiuary 22. The number of horses m New South "Wales at the end of last year was 472,534, a 'decrease of 931; cattlo, 2,414,825, increase of 99,023; sheep, 41,531,000, decrease of 1,245,000. The increase of cattle is attributed to tho development of closer settlement, and the deoreaso in sheep is principally the result of tho drought. v SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND. (Reo. February 22,11.50 p.m.) London, February 22. Mr. A. Dewar, M.P., has succeeded Mr. Alexander Ure as-Sohcitor-Ooneral for Scotland. [Mr. A. Dewar, K.C., was elected for Edinburgh South in 190 S. He was born m 1860, and oducated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University.] LATE SHIPPING. Sydney, February 22. Arrived: Waitemata, from Auckland.