GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 482, 15 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(n? te leg na r it —r it ess association—corvuiofli.) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND SERVIA. (Rec. April 14, 10.5 p.m.) Vienna, April 14. Tho commercial negotiations botwoon Aus« ria-Hungary and Servia faibd to discovor lie basis of an agreement. CARUSO'S OVERWORKED VOICE. New York, April 13. Signor Caruso, tho famous tenor singeli s suffering from atony (debility) of tho vocal :hords. Specialists advise that bo should also a two years' rest. [Signor Caruso is generally acknowledged to jo the finest tenor of the present day. He bo. ran life as an engineer, with no uiou b 'iu ut. singing until a friend assured him that thero ■ ,vas a fortnno in his voioc. So he studied lor i while, aud mado a first appearance in opera, some few years ago, in his native city, Naples. His success was immediate, and he lias sinco ;ung at all' tho greatest opera houses in' tho ivorld, commanding fees of hundreds of pounds Mr night. His greatest hobby is dVawmg, and lie might havo mado a good deal of money as 1 caricaturist, judring by tho remarkably c over pictures of himselt and his friends which ho is always executing.] . HOLLAND SUBMARINES. London, April 13. Mr. Holland, the inventor, is negotiating vitli tho Japanese Government for tho sale if his smaller type of submarine, the speed >f which is 25 instead of 13 knots. DEATH OF SIR DONALD CURRIE. London, April 13. Tho death is announced of Sir Donald ■ jurrio, shipowner, aged 83 years. [Sir Donald Currie, late managing director of tho Castlo lane, was born at Greenock oil September 17, 182.1. Ho sat in tho,House ol Commons from 1880 to 1900 as a Liberal Unionist. Prior to that he was made (1877) for assistance in settling the diamond fields dispute in South Africa. In 1897 ho was mado U.&.M.G. for his service 111 connection with the shipping trade to Africa. Sir Donald Currie was an intimate friend of the lato Mr. Grindstone, and from lime to timo the? latter for a cruise on ono of the Castlo liuQi's. The cruises were always famous on account "J tho distinguished guests.l RESOURCES OF CANADA'S COAL FIELDS. Ottawa, April 13. Recent surveys show that there are forty thousand million tons of marketable coal in the Canadian coal fields. TO REDUCE RUSSIAN HOLIDAYS. St. Petersburg, April 13. A group of members of tho Council of tho Empiro is endeavouring to rcduco Russian public holidays by thirty-six, urging that such a step would savo many millions or roubles. The clergy are fighting for the reform vigorously. PERSIAN NATIONALISTS. Teheran, April 13. The fact that tho Customs at Bushiro (on tho Persian Gulf) are pledged as security for British loans threatens complications with the Persian Nationalists (who recently seized tho Bushiro Customs . and aro administering them). IRISH NATIONALISTS' SINEWS OF WAR. London, April 13. Mr. John Redmond, leader of tho Irish parliamentary party, in a circular inviting contributions shows that the present subscriptions to tho Irish parliamentary funds amounted to £1296, as compared with £1826 a year aso. ORANGE ADVICE TO LORD DUDLEY, ' Melbourne, April 14. At tho dinner of tho Grand Council 1 of .tho. Orango Institution, tho chairman topic tho Governor-General (Earl Dudley) to task for nttending tho St. Patrick's Day celebrations.. Ho said Lord Dudley, as representative of tho King, had no right to bo present. Ho hojwd Lord Dudley would beware of tho siren tongue which had too ready access to tho vice-regal car. [Tho Orange element in Ireland was dissatis-. lied with Earl Dudley's attitude to Devolution when the Karl was Viceroy. The rcpqrt last year of the Dudley Commission on Congestion 111 'Ireland hardly tends to heal the breach.] PLAGUE-INFECTED SYDNEY. Sydnoy, April 14. Plague rats wero discovered yesterday in five different city premises. 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