GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(by TBLSQBAPII—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPrBIQIIT.) 1 NATAL RAILWAY STRIKE'COLLAPSES. (Rec. May 7, 10.45 p.m.) , . Durban, May 7. The railway strike in: Natal has"collapsed. 1 AGREEMENT DENOUNCED. Washington, May 7. 11l viow of, the new tariff, the United States Government has denounced the commercial agreement that was concluded with Germany in May, 1907.. > , r ■ 1 CANADIAN PATRIOTIC LEAGUE. ' _ Ottawa, May 7.' A public meeting at Toronto decided to organise a Patriotic League on the same lines as the Australian League. ' PERSIA. Toheran, May 6. ■ The Nationalists have'control of tho following cities:—The southern seaports of Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Lingah; and Jask, and tho inland centres, Urumiah, Shiraz, and Hamadan. > ' A VIOTORIAN LOAN. ' '.. London, May 7. It is announced that Victoria is : issuing a 3i per cent, loan of £1,500,000 at 98. ', ' (Rec. May 8, 0.40 a.m.) .. . : London, May 7. Tho Victorian ' loan has biNiu under written on tho usual terms. ' LATE SHIPPING. . . \ : Sydney; May 7. Arrived, at 1. p.m.—Victoria. Heavy weather in the'Tasman'Sea delayed the Kaituna and Wanaka. They sustained no damage. Melbourne, May 7. ' Arrived.—Aotea, from Liverpool. ' ACQUITTED. " ; ' __ ' Sydney, May 7. Harold Ritchie, who was committed for trial last month on a charge of forging the signature of John Holmes for £1, was acquitted. . ■; [It was-reported at the preliminary hearing ihat accused stated that he had occupied important' positions .in New Zealand, and had been master of a high school in Dunedin.] . , MEAT SEIZED AS UNFIT.' _~ . Sydney, May 7., With referenco- to tho shipment of Australian "mutton recently condemned in London, it was. shipped from Melbourne to tho order of a firm of Sydney exporters aftor being twice officially inspected, and passed as fair .average quality in good condition:. The principal of the firm concerned cannot under-stand-the reasons of the condemnation. 'The firm, he says, has been shipping for years, and haß never .before had a complaint. The meat in question ivas ewe mutton, and was officially classed as, second grade. Tho carcasses averaged 471b. each. Ho cannot see how. it is possible to describe the, meat as wasted and emaciated. . ,v (A London cablegram, dated May .3. stated IThe attention of Mr. Coghlan, New South Wales, Agent-General, has been drawn to o shipment of Australian meat. ,A consignmenl of 1255. sheep ,was sent to Liverpool by a Sydney firm, and sold to a dealer in the Central Markets; 400 were dispatched to the jirovinoes, and the remainder, wero stored in 'ftnithfleld, The owner, on examining them, oalled th< chief inspector's attention to them, and obtained the return >of tho-400, with the result that 812 were seized as unfit for , food, beinf mainly caroasses in • a wasted ' and emaciated condition., The sheep bore a label signed bj the consignors: 'We declare this.- meat sold' a: fit for human consumption.-. It is pointed v onl that such a label had been regarded as a certificate of offioial inspection at the time' ol slaughter. T ... ■ . MARINE, ENGINEERS' AGREEMENT. (Reo. May 8, 0.40 a.m.) , . , r T Melbourne, May 7. Mr.,> Justice • Higgins, President of : the Federal Arbitration Court, ha 3 mado an ordei sanctioning the working agreement (published in Thursday's issue) between tho Institute of Naval Engineers and , the Steamship Owners Association, both parties concurring. . . pThe agreement, which , lasts for- three years, thus becomes equal in force to an award of the Arbitration Court.] • ♦ •. . THE KING IN PARIS, _. , London,' May 6. lung Edward has arrived in Pariß, on his return from his Mediterranean tour. "AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME." Capo Town, May 6, : Captain Du MaurierV play,- "An Englishman's Home," has been produced al Cape,. Town, It was a. great success. . EMPIRE DAY; , : . London, May 6. Schools in the United Kingdom to tht number of 17,359, with 3.037,838 scholars are preparing to observe, Empire Day, Maj 24. . ; ' ANTARCTIC METEOROLOGICAL NOTES Melbourne, May 7. Lieutenant Shackloton has presented th< meteorological notes of the Antarctic expedition to tne Federal Meteorological Depart incnt. i AUSTRALIAN BUTTER SHIPMENTS. • , Sydney, May 6. The butter shipped from tho Commonwealth from July 1 was 15,431..t0n5, compared with 21,558 tons for the same period last year. 1