GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 493, 28 April 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(IIY TEI.EGIUm—raESS ASSOCIATION— COrTIIIGHT.) '■■'.■ • '. '—■* . .'" — '■:■ ' ■'■ •' '. '. .'■ : ' ' •': STJICIDB. ;_ ; ; ■;:.;.■ • London, April 28. , The fourth brother of tho Earl of Dal-housio,-the Hon. Ronald Ramsay, 23 years of ago,. and a lieutenant in fho Soots Guards,, committed suicide on board the Hamburg-American liner Cleveland ,in mid-Atlantic. . ■ . . . ' STAUNCHNESS 6f THE NIMROD. Sydney, April 27. Tho docking of the Antarctic exploring ship Nimrod disclosed that she had sustained practically no damage from ice pressure. / DAMAGE BY, GALES. •; :•■'. Melbourne, April 27. Soyero gales during the past two days have caused considerable damage to property in the country. The Methodist Church at Colac was blown down. ~ . • v. . ~••' BOXING. • ■. (Bee. April 28, 1.5 a.m.). . ; Melbourne, April 27. ■Williams, tho holder,. beat Cripps in th( twentieth round for the middle-woiglit boxinf championship.. . . : . . ■ '- : '. ' THE BRAYBROOK DISASTER. ;: Melbourne, April 27. The Commission rejected'' the appeal ol Milbnrn, driver of the Bendigo train, anainsi r tho finding of the Departmental ■ Board j re suiting in' his dismissaL: but modified th< finding sin "the case, of-.Kendall,-the;Bray brook statiohmaster. The Commission de cided to reinstate Kendall in tlie service ii a purely clerical position.' ■...::■. ~;:■.'.' ' [In connection with the railway catastrophe at Br'aybrook (Sunshine) in April ; last, whra 43 people were killed and 191 were injured, the Department Board of Inquiry found Milburn (driver of the Bendigo train, which crashed ink the ill-fated Ballarat train) gnilty 1 on each oi five charges. Driver Dolmai;, Firemen Tomlinson. and Debeny, and Guard D'Arc.v were found not guilty.. Tho etationmaster Kendall was. found guilty, with a recommendation tc mercy. Tho Board dismissed bith Milburn and Kendall, who appealed to the tribunal, whose decision is cabled above.' At the inquest Keiidall, the Braybrook stationmaater,: gave evidence that he intended.to give tho signal tc come to the distance to Bendipe ..train, but, according to the entry in , his!, book, he pave 'Hine clear" 1 to Sydenham. The mistake ho made was. in not-keeping the Ballarat train nt the home signal .when he riivo the lino clear but he was under the- impression that he hac given the signal to the Bendigo train to come to the distance. He had been working for-ten hours on the dav of the accident, but that wni nothing unusual. He had to look after bqtli tho signals and tho platform.] '