GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 479, 12 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Br TEkEGIEArH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—CoryitIGIIT.) * CHINESE ON THE RAND. (Roc. April 11, 4.15 p.m.) t Pretoria, April, 10. Returns show that tliere were 9997 Chinese on the Band on March 31. THE COST OF JAPANNING KOREA. •Tokio, April 10. . A report by Princo Ito (Resident-General in Korea) on the administration of Korea discloses that tho out-of-pocket oxpenses in completely reorganising the Empire amounts to £14,500,000. Tho bulk of the disbanded army conducted a guerrilla warfare, tho suppression of which cost Japan a million. FREIGHTS ON SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCE. Capo Town, April 10. As a result of a conference between the South African governments and the steamship companies, the latter have made considerable concessions in freights on produce. ZULU MURDERS-COMPLICITY OF DINIZULU. 1 iy. ■ Durban,' April 9The Special Court sitting at Maritzburg sentenced a native named Matjane to death for murdering a nativo doctor named Gence. An accomplice, named Niiji, was sentenced to two years' penal servitude. The presiding judge emphasised the fact that the prisoners declared that Dinizulu had ordored the murder. . This statement' afforded the only intelligible motivo for the crime. WOES OF MESSINA. Roms, April 9. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena are. indignant at tho condition of Messina, which is without a thoroughfare or habitable dwelling,, beyond huts and railway carriages. There is no water, light, or sanitation in the town, and swarms of flies are carrying tho germs of disease. ,

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL FINANCE. London, April 9. The income of the London County Council for tho past year amounted to £10,514,807, hnd the expenditure to £10,829,984, including £5,615,114 on education. The surplus on tramways account was £44,557. THE HOLIDAY. London, April 9. The weather was brilliant for tho holiday. Seventy-five thousand holiday-makers left London. ' A CYCLING RECORD BROKEN. • Sydney, April 10. Pacod by a motor-cycle, Shepherd, the Newcastle cyclist, lowered tho Australian rccord for a mile from a standing start, covering the distance in lmin. 3oscc.