GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 463, 23 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(by TELEGKArH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COrYRIOIIT.) OBITUARY. (Rec. March 22, 9.55 p.m.) Calcutta, March 22. Obituary: Tho daughter of Sir Sydenham Clarko. AERONAUTICS: AN EXHIBITION IN LONDON. ' . London, March 21. A great aero exhibition has been opened in tho Olympia Buildings, London. It embraces aeroplanes and dirigible balloons. DUTCH IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES. ~ London, March 21. A party of Dutch peasants, is seeking to emigrate to Now South Wales on the same terms as those suggested by a party of Russians, and montioncd in a previous message. [A cablegram published yesterday stated that a large number of agricultural peasants in South-Eastern Russia had formed a party, and were applying for assistance towards tho payment of. their passages to New South Wales. They were prepared to go to that State conditionally on the New South Wales Government finding them employment at farming.] POSTLE BEATS, DAY OVER 220 YARDS. • London, March 21. In a race at Johannesburg for tho 220 yards' sprinting championship of the worid, £220 aside, and a purse of £100, A. B. Jostle (Australia) beat B. R. Day (England). The time was 23 seconds. PLAGUE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, March 22. Another patient—the third—from Wearne's flourmill in Goulbuni Street has succumbod to plague. . LAWN TENNIS. Adelaide, March 22. At the lawn tennis tournament, in the men's doubles (State championship), Bowcn and Taylor, of South Australia, beat Parked of New South Wales, and Quill, of Now Zealand, 6 —2, 6 —3, 6—2. BIG EARTHQUAKE SOMEWHERE. Sydnoy, March 22. - The seismograph at tho observatory recorded severe earth tremors on Thursday morning,' corresponding with those recorded at Perth observatory. A FOOTBALL SUIT. Sydney, March 22. Robert Jack applied in tho Equity Court to compel the Now South Wales Football League to pay him £165, tho amount awarded under a decree of August 28 last as his share of the proceeds of tho Maori team's tour, and still unpaid. The League offered £56 in full settlement of the claim. The Court ordered the Master in Equity to inquire as to moneys held by the League.