GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 475, 6 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BTIHLEGRATII —PBESS ASSOCIATION—COrTKIOBT.) —0 ■ SENTENCES COMMUTED IN RUSSIA, i (Rcc: April 5, 9.30 p.m.) St. Petersburg, April 5. The Tsar has commuted the sentences of. fourteen of +he men who some time ago escaped from Alexandrovsk prison. THE KING'S HEALTH. London, April 5. King Edward is in excellent health, a.nd is making vigorous excursions in the vicinity of Biarritz. ' MARATHON RACING. Now -York,' April 4. The Marathon Derby at New York drew ■ forty thousand spectators. Saint Yves, a French runner, won tho 5000 doljars prize (£1000), Dqrando, the Italian, securing the second prize of 2500 dollars (£500). Longboat, Shrubb, Hayes, and Mat Maloney—all well-known long-distance runners—also ran. CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS. ~ - ' Paris, April 4. Ninety-two cases of cerebral meningitis havo been reported, in Paris. The patients are being treated with Wasserman's serum. ACQUITTED OF MURDERING HER CRIPPLE SON. London, April 4. :' Mrs. Haskell has been acquitted on her ', • second trial on the charge of murdering her crippled boy. The jury considered the evij dence was insufficient to justify a conviction. ' • .

A SIGNAL MISREAD. mL . ' Sydney, April 5. .through the misreading of a signal from the fever-infected steamer Echunga, it was at first reported that the captain, not the donkeyman, had died from fever. This led to-tho captain's wife having all preparations ready for the funeral of her husband, whun he arrived' in good health. .WORLD'S WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP. ■ v Melbourne, April 5. Ine amount of the stakes for tho Hacken-6chimdt-Gotch wrestling match is £650P,' not ±.2000, as previously cabled. .HEAT IN SYDNEY. v *',"■, Sydney, April 5. xestcrclay the thermometer registered 89 .degrees m the shade. It was the hottest April day since 1859. . ■ ■ '. (Rec. April 5, 10.55 p.m.) ™ . L , Sydney, April 5. Ine protracted spell of hot weather hae broken, and good rain, is falling. TRAWLING IN AUSTRALIA. m, - , , ■ Melbourne, April 5. ine J)e<teral Government's trawler on its trip from Sydney captured four tons of fish, including half a ton-of John Dory, which is considered: very scarce in Australian waters. TcLw he 7»°i hn ' i Dorj 7 s by . no means unknown in £<ew Zealand waters, but does not seem to nave received any commercial attention.] LOSS ON WALLABIES' TOUR. A+ ~ , Sydney, April 5. _At the annual meeting of the New South Wales Rugby Union, .it was stated that tho tour in Bntaan of the Wallabies (the Aus-' rf£lso0 mteUr fo(rtballers > «»»1W in a loss THE PLAGUE. a u. „ , Sydney, April 5. Another case of plague is reported. The enfferer resides in Sussex Street.