GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 486, 20 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(iIY TELEGRAPH—ritESS ASSOCIATION—CODYMGIIT.) I —— » ■:' JAPANESE POLITICO-FINANCIAL SCANDAL. t , A ; Tokio, 'April 18. ' Nino deputies of the ,Lower House have, boeii arrested on charges of, bribery in connection .with' the Japan Sugar: Company. The scandal;caused a great drop m shares, and many persons lvero ruined- - ' ALLEGED I NUI TR VUDS . New York. Apnl'lß. Indictments have :been granted at Topeka, Kansas, containing 737 counts, charging the Cudahy Packing Company with, dcfraudiiig tho United States Government, by a violation of tho internal revenue laws Regarding duties on olco-margarine.' ;.v 1 ROYAL CRUISE IN MEDITERRANEAN.: London, April 18. King; Edward, Queen. Alexandra, and tho Dowager-Empress of Russia (sister of: .the Queen) , have embarked at Genoa on tho Royal yacht Victoria and Albert for a cruise in tho Mediterranean. '■ POSTLE BEATS DAY OVER A QUARTER MILE. ' London; April 18. " ' Av Postlo (Australia) defeated B. R. Day (Great Britain) at Johannesburg' over ,440 yards, run in 51. 3-sscc. ' : , : [For a straight course the quarter-mile record is 47sec., put up on October' 4; 1900, in Aiiierica by tho amateur M. W. Long,, who, on the same day, cut out 350 yards -in;, 36 2-sseC..~i ami 100 j yards in 421-ssec.npn- i rAiirjl l 1, 1907, at Clare-: inont, West Australia, B. R. Day (the loser ill the cabled race) was credited with cowling tho : quarter mile..fa 47 '4-ssec., •or!3:l-5sce, faster : than.the time cabled.] :* : : ;

; BILLIARDS:' STEVENSON IN Fohll. 7 _ .■.■■■■■■ London,' April 18. Stevenson, in a billiard ; match against Harverson,-scored 344 off tho red ball. , "WIRELESS" TO BLIZZARDLAND. Sydney, April 19. •Professor David, ;vho accompanied' tho Shackleton expedition, oppresses • tlic' hopethat Australasia will establish a • meteorological station on / the ■ Antarctic Continent, connected by wireless telegraphy. . THE LATE ARCHBISHOP, OF SYDNEY. (Rec. April 20, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, April 19. ; Clergy of all denominations have sent,condolences to tho relatives of the late Primato, Dr.'-.Win. Saumarez Smith. • v. ■ opium"seizure. y .! Sydney, April 19. Opium ,of the valuo of £1000 was -.seized 'aboard the German steamer Prinz V.'aldemar. ' ; CITIZEN SOLDIERY. ■' i Sydney, April 19. ■yajof-Genoral Hoad,. Federal dant, has returned from; a' visit to England .and America. Ho states that ho is as,much impressed as over witlr the snlendid work •done by -Australia's ' citizen soldiers, which compared more than favourably with any i similar organisation that ho had seen. . / A MURDERER. EXECUTED. \ Brisbane, April 19. , The black-tracker who murdered Mrs. .Evitts ; iwas executed to-day. death beins instantaneous. Ho expressed, resret for his crimo. Mrs. Eyitts was tho wife of a farmer. Sho went into a paddock on .January ,22 to seek some stock, and her body was afterwards found in tho river hear by, with every evidence that sho had met her death bv violence. .A black-tracker subsequently confessed" to'tho crime. , ./ :