GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 484, 17 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BV TKLECIIUriI— FRESS \ ASSOCIATION—COI'TIIIOU'r.) PATENTS TREATY. \ ;;;.' ;,;.;(Rec. Aprilie, 10.58 p.m.) : ■'• ;■ ■ ~;■"•" , Washington, April 16. • The "United States Senate has ratified the ■Patents' Treaty between the United-States and Germany.: . ; ; ■■■■. :.'■ ;'' .' -\ .'.' [It has been'stated-that the treaty makes 'it unnecessary. ; for inventors of one country to erect factories in'the other.] . ■■ ; ' WRIGHT A'EROPLANING IN ROME.\ ■ ... ■"';'"■' Rome, April 16. • Mr. Wilbur Wright has begun aeroplane flights in Rome. His flights are causing groat excitement. :•■.-..' • .'• /'v ■' ■ DINIZULU MAY BE CHARGED WITH ■ '■~■. ; MURDER. ."-... .•■■•- "'," : t "': ■' •'■ : Durban) April 16. Mr. Moor, Premier of Natal, states that tho Government is considering the question of proceeding against yDihizulu for murder, owiug to the evidence elicited at 'recent treason'; trials;;.; ; ... • :.;.,, .. . [Dinizulu was found'not guilty of inditing to rebellion, but was found guilty of; sheltering rebels, and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and. fined < , Subsequent to his sentence a Durban Press Association etated: "The Special Court sitting at Pietermaritzburg sentenced n native inamed Matjano to death for murdering a nativo doctor named Qence. An accomplice, named Niiji, was sentenced to two years' penal servitude. The presiding judge omphasised the fact' that tho prisoners declared that Dinizulu had ordered the murder, This statement afforded the only intelligible motive for■ tho crime."] . }. . ■'■ .NATIONALISTS AT LAW. v ; London, April 16. : . The Crean-Devlin assault case has been dismissed. Mr, Dovlin was ..granted £150 COStS."- .: ' : . ■■ ; ''". '/■'' . ■•..■. The Evangelical Lutheran services at the [The, i first ■ prosecution under Lord Robert Cecil's Publio Jteetings' Disturbances Act, which .became law in December lost and owed its inception to tho behaviour of the Suffragists, was curiously-.enough,' at the instance iif i a member of Parliament against another M.P. Mr. Crcan, one of tho Irish Parliamentary party, obtained a series of summonses in Dublin Police 'Court against Mr. Delvin, M.P., of the eame party, storetary of the United Irish .League, and also against the assistant secretary. They were accused of having acted in i disorderly manner to prevent the transaction of business at the recent National Convention ; n the Mansion House, Dublin, and also of having inoite;! others.] BRAZIL AND ARBITRATION. ' Ti . '"."■■ ■ London,"April. 15: It is announced that Brazil has concluded permanent arbitration treaties with tho United Stages, Franco, Portugal,-Spain; and Mexico. . • \- -,■'■■-. ■ .-.. . THE KING'S GRANDSON. ■ :; : '-.■■' : London,'Apiii 15. Prince Edward of Wales has finished his course at Osbbrno College, and will join the Senior Naval College at Dartmouth. CONVICTS TAKE CHARGE OP GAOL. ' _ ;-„■":" .;•■■■ Paris, April 16. Taking advantage of the holidays, the convicts at Gaillon prison, in the north-west of France, where, desperate criminals aro eonfined, seized the gaol, and forced the wardens, ty threatening to wreck the prison, to serve them with soup, wiiie, and. tobacco. Next day troops arrived on the sceno, and with fixed bayonets compelled the convicts to surrender. Sixteen of the prisoners escaped to the,woods, arid nine are,still at liberty. A BIG NAVAL REVIEW. , ,'..'■. ; London, April 15; The first,' second, and third divisions of tho Home fleet, and the Atlantic fleet, consisting of- sixty-eight battleships and cruisers, will bo reviewed at Spithead on June 10, in honour of' the colonial journalists who aro .visiting England to. attend'tho Imperial Press Conference. ....,, . ■', .. .. .-.',. ;;:;:".. :. YEARLING SALES. ; " : V Sydnoy, April 10. At the yearling sales the following from New Zealand .were sold:—Field Battery— Albtira filly. '280 guilicas; : Field Battery— Grandeur filly, 220 guinons; Field Batter'v— Squib oolfe,. 100 giiinoas; Field battery—Our Lady colt:, 250 guineas. .