GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 469, 30 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(dx TELEoiiArn—press association— coryiuoiir.) GUN-RUNNING IN THE PERSIAN GULF. (Rec. March 20, 11.50 p.m.) m , n. .. Calcutta, March 29. Tho British gunboat Lapwing and the special sorvice vcesol Sphinx,have hastily sailed from Bombay for the Persian .Gulf, owing to a recrudescence of gun-running. COASTING STEAMER WRECKED. Sydney, March 29. Tho coasting steamer Burrawong was' wrecked-while crossing tho Manning River bar. The passengers and tho crciv landed safely, ; NEW ORIENT STEAMER.

, London,; March 28. The Onont Company's new steamer Otranto (ono of tho flvo 12,000 ton steamers now building under tho mail contract with tho Commonwealth)has been launched at Belfast. A BIG MEAT COMPANY. London, March 28. Tho Bovril Australian Estates Company, Limited, which has been formed with the object of purchasing the properties of Mr. Sydney Kidman, "tho Australian Cattlo King," and other properties, will havo a capitalof £250,G00. Tho directors are- Lord Kmsey (an ex-Governor of Victoria), Sir Edward Wittenoom (a former Agent-General for Western Australia), and Sir. Kidman. Mr. C. H. Rasoti will assume the chairmanship of the board of directors upon returning to Australia in October from his present position as Agent-General of 'Western. Australia. AUSTRALIAN POULTRY EXPORTS. London, March 28. The Sinithfiold Market Committee report shows that 24.7 por cent, of tho meat, poultry, etc., marketed in 1908, was Australian. RECENT POSTAL STRIKE IN PARIS. Paris, March 28. The French postal trouble is ended. The Governmont has accepted an assurance of tho men's fidelity. MISSING, London, March 28. John Davidson, the poet and playwright, has beon missing from his homo at l'onzanco, Cornwall, for several days. [Born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1857, John Davidson was iu turn chemical analyst, school teacher, and clork till ho came to London in 1800 and attracted attention with special articles in tho "Speaker" and "Glasgow Herald." In poetry and plays ho has published copiously. Among his moro recent works are "Holiday ami Other Poems," 1D00; "The Triumph of Mammon," 1807j and "Mammon and his Message," 1908.] DEATH OF A NOTED CRIMINAL. London, March 28, Tho death is announced of William Roupoll, formorly member of Parliament for Lambeth, who in 1862 was sentenced to penal sorvitudo for lifo for self-confessed forgory. [Vim, Roupell, at that time a member of Parliament, confessed in 1862, while giving evidence in tho case of Roupell v. Waite, to having forged a will and committed other frauds. He was sentenced to imprisonment, and was reloased in September, 187G.] A DESTRUCTIVE STORM. Brisbane, March 29. A storm' at Pittsworth, 137 miles from Brisbane, unroofed' many houses, and seriously damaged tho Catholic Church and other properties.