GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 455, 13 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Di ril'EiiiMi'ii—ntnss • • •■icution— conraioiir.) A'SCHOLARLY SEDITION-MONGER. London, March 11. One hundred and nine leading members of the Oxford Convocation are petitioning for the abolition of the Herbert Spencer lectureship at Oxford University, endowed by Shyamaji Krishna Varma, who is living in Paris and stirring up sedition among the. Indian students in Great Britain. The petitioners suggest tho •return of tho £1000 given by Varma. A MONEY-LENDER MURDERED. London, March 11. Mr Herman Cohen, a well-known moneylender in the north of England;, was murdered in his offico at Sundcrland. ihere is no cluo regarding tho murderer, or murderers. ' CANADIAN DEFENCE FORCES. Ottawa, March 11. Sir Frederick Borden, Canadian Minister for Defence, states that the militia numbers' 47 300 men. The Canadian defence scheme for 1910 will cost £1,222,600. The first line of defence will consist of 100,000 men, and the second line of 200,000. -SMALLPOX. London, March 11. A Local Government Board inspector has bdon sent to Bristol to confer with tho authorities there, owing to an alarming outbreak of smallpox. N PLAGUE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, March 12. AVearne, the owner of the flour mill in Goulburn Street whero the plague- cases were taken from, died from the disease. COLLIER REFLOATED. Sydney, March 12. The collier Wallsend, 500 tons, belonging to the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company, which went ashore in a rough sea at Bellambi liecf, was refloated on the rising tide, and her crew reboarded her, . A CAPTAIN BLAMED. (Rcc. March 13, 0.45 a.m.) Sydney, March 12. The Marine Court found that the stranding of the steamer Soutli Australian on Texas Reef, Fiji, on February 20, was due to the wrongful act of < the master, Captain Flint, in setting a course, too near tho reef. The Court called on him to show eauso why his certificate should not be dealt with.