GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 462, 22 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAM—MESS ASSOCIATION'—COI'YUIGHT.) ■ «

IMPERIAL GENERAL STAFF. (Ree. March 21, 4.30 p.m.) London, March 20. Tho Governments of South Africa express sympathy with Mr. Haldanc's Imperial General Staff schemo, but inform Air. Haldane that nothing can possibly bo dona in the shape of adopting it ponding tho consummation of South African union. RUGBY: SCOTLAND BEATS ENGLAND. London, March 21. At Rugby football Scotland defeated England by three goals and a try (18 points) to a goal and a try (8 points). THE LONG ARM OF THE MAFIA. Rome, March 19. . The agent of the shipping company who arranged for the transport of tho body of Petrosmi, the American deteotivo who was murdered in Palermo in broad daylight, relinquished tho contract, owing to tho Mafia's threats. BRITAIN'S WHEAT PRODUCTION. London, March 19. Tho Board of Agriculture's returns for 1908 show that the wheat production in Great Britain was 6,566,892 quarters. QUEENSLAND LOAN: AN UNLUCKY TIME. London, March 19 The Queensland loan of £2,500,000 at 3* per cent, is quoted at half per cent, discount. The underwriters will receive 84 per cent, of it. Tho "Standard" comments upon the ill-chance of the date of the issue of the loan coinciding with a troubled political period, and adds:—"Doubtless it will be quickly absorbed by the investment markets." OXFORD BEATS CAMBRIDGE. London, March 19. At the Inter-University sports, Oxford beat Cambridge by six events to four. M. G. D. Murray (of Cambridge), a _ South Australian, won the long jump, covering 22ft. o}in. ■ STOLEN BOOKS RECOVERED. London, March 19. The books recently stolen from Lincoln's Inn Library havo been recovered. STEAMER SHORT OF FUEL. ', Durban, .March 19. i t The steamer Tiberius, 4149 tons, is repairing her machinery at Durban. Tho ship's stores and fixtures had to be burnt owing to shortness of fuel. . ■. , PROPOSED MELBOURNE-FIJI SERVICE. London, March 19. Mr. H. E. Sleigh, a Melbourne shipowner, reports that ho can acquire the steamers Obidonso (1511 tons) and Madeirenso (1602 tons), belonging to tho Booth Steam Ship , Company ; _of Liverpool, for tho proposed Mel- , bourne-Fiji service. Ho has stipulated, however, .that tho Victorian. Government must first notify its acceptance of his provisional tender. RECORD OF A BIG SHAKE. „_ . . •"■ Pertli, March 20. The seismograph at the observatory recorded a series of severe earth shocks, extending from 7 to 8.16 o'clock yesterday morning. The interval between tho preliminary tremor and the first long wavo indicates a' 'quake 700 miles distant, the origin probably being m the Lidian Ocean. ■ DEATH FROM ANTHRAX. ... • Sydney, March 20. A farmer named Ellis died at Denman, 194 miles west of Sydney, after handling an anthrax-infected cow. Two of Ellis's sons 1 are in hospital from the same causo. < ■=—-~ =■ !