GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BX XIHSHttAWI—TBSSB ASSOCIATION—COriBIOHT.I ' o : — , I ROOSEVELT AT NAIROBI. . i (Roo. May 27, 8.10 p.m.) ! , London, May 27. _ ' Mr. Roosevelt has arrived at. Nairobi, British East Africa.' • KITCHENER'S EMPIRE 'MISSION. , _ ' .London, M,ay 27. ' Tho states that Lord Kitchener', after witnessing tho Japanese manoeuvres 'in November, will proceed to Australia, and thonco to. Canada. ; Ho is anxious to'Teyiow the whole'of■ tho'Empire's military problem. - , n ["What shall wo do with Lord Kitchener?" \ asks the "Observer," and adda: "With ono ex- \ caption he is the best abused man of his day, j 'but in the pursuit of efaciensy he has thought . it his business to bo hated. ■ Whatever may be thought about his powers of command, in the , field, he is easily one of tho six best organising , k minds that the Empire at present possesses."! > STRIKE OF SEAMEN. , ' ' - Marseilles, May 26. x f The seamen at this port .have* struck for a weekly day's rest, and for/ tho exclusion J of coloured men. \ NEW ' WIRELESS' STATION. ' '; ~ v Washington, May 26.' ) A wireless station,. 600 feet high, is be- , , inc built at Washington.' It will havo a radius of three thousand miles. [The masts of the Marconi station at Glaco , 'Bay, where the trans-Atlantic system is in operation, are 180 ft. high.l ' •THE GLASGOW MURDER: A REPRIEVE. London, May' 26. Oscar Slater—who was found guilty and sentenced to death on a charge of having murdered, in December-last, at Glasgow, ' a well-to-do lady of 80 years, Miss Gilchrist —has been reprieved, Thero was an element of uncertainty in' the evidence of iden- i tification." , . i MR. KRISHNAVARNA. London, May 26. Mr. Krishnovarna, the Indian barrister - who was disbarred for his seditious writings in the-Indian "Sociologist," and in a letter he had written to "The Times,"\ has -accepted the return of his endowment of the Spencer lectureship. LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON. ' . Rome, May 26. The Italian Geographical Society will confer its highest gold medal upon Lieutenant Shackleton. for his researches in the Antarctio regions. AN ANTI-FEDERATION SPEAKER. . , Perth, May 27.* Mr. F. F. Ouinlan, Speaker of tho West Australian Assombly, has challenged Senator de Laririe to refute on tho public platform at _ Perth his statoment that do Largio's claim that federation had benefitted Wostralia was absolutely without foundation. BROKEN HILL: OWNERS' VIEW OF THE COURT. .Molboiirno, May 27. Speaking at tho meeting of the Block 10 Company, tho chairman said that tho award recently given by the_ Federal Arbitration Court was so far-reaching that it might be disastrous to the entire community. Before the Court could become of real utility, said the chairman, somO( drastic amending legislation was necessary.' , , DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GUINEA. ' Melbourne, May 27. A return shows that altogether " 26,598 acres of Papuan (New Guinea).land have been taken up under tho freehold tenure. and 242,395 under leasehold. PLAGUE RATS. ' Adelaide, May 27. More olaeue rati have been found at Port Adelaide. An active crusade for their extirpation is progressing THE SAYONARA CUP. > Molbourna, May 27. - The owners of the yacht Sayonara havo accented nomination as defender of next year's Sayonara Cup (winch 'was successfully dd fended last February by the Sayonara agamst tho Sydney yacht Tholma). Benevolent Old Gentleman—"l am sorry, Johnny, to it* jou have a black eye." I'iomisinj'youth—"You go homo and feel sorry Sot jour own kid—ho's got twol" ('