GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 522, 1 June 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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.CASABLANCA—MUTUAL REGRETS. : , (Rec. May 31,11.5 p.m.) . ' V ■ Benin, May Si. Germany and France have_ expressed mutual regrets in connection with the Caßablanca incident so far'as their rcspectivo .officials blamed'in the arbitration award aro concerned. '

ANTARCTIC MINERALS-GERMANS i INTERESTED. . . Uhdon, May 81.. Germane. aN. making, inquiry as . to, the commercial value of the minerals reported to have been , discovered by the Sliackloton party in South Viotoria Lahd. A Arm at Hamburg offers to subscribe largely to any oompany formed to work monaaite, if Lieut. Shackleton's detailed reports' prove favourable. . ■' [Moamito is a phosphate of the cerium metals, usually containing some thorium silicate. It is a rare mineral, occurring in small brownish-red or yellowish-brown monoolinio crystals, also roassivo witb resinous lustre, and is found at Norwich; in Connecticut, in North among the Urals, and elsewhere.]

AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. • ' London, May 30. For tihe amateur golf cliaihpionsllipj Robert Maxwell beat Captain Hutohinson at the last hole. ■ MR. ROGERS'S MILLIONS. ' Now Yofk. May 30. Of his ©state, valued at twelve millions, the lato Mr. H. Rogers, director of tho Standard Oil and other companies, bequeathed to his wife £20,000 annually, and to his brother's family au income, of £80,000. • The residue of hk ©state is divided between his son and three daughters, who will receive none of the principal until they reach the ago'ftf forty. BANKING FRAUD: FIVE YEARS' GAOL. „ „ . Ottawa, May 30. Mr. Philippe Roy, formerly Speaker of the Quebec Legislature, and manager Of the defunct Banque de St. Jean, of Quebec,- has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for furnishing false Government returns. After the sentence was delivered, Roy attempted to commit suioide., [The Banque do St. Joan failed last yeaV, with a deficit of about ,£62,000. The . failure was. of no general importance. It was described as. practically a one-man or one-family af*

PLAQUE., , » V; m. , „ Sydney, May 31. A matt reading at IWfem baa died of plag&e. : ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN; V „ , ' , Bydney, May 31.- • An attempt was raado to wreck the Brieban© express at Guyla. Two slcioers vcro qxgq across fch6 lino,, btifc woro discovcrcd shortly before the train arrived. Tho police &t(s ttivestigatng. A SHARP EARTHQUAKE. .V, ~ , ... M 6l6 ?u™ ( May 31. At two o'clock-thiß morning a sharp shook of earthquake occurred nt Oastorfcon (246 milos vreflt by rail of Melbourne), The shook was aooompanicd by a loud rumbling, which lasted sovoral seconds, mid which was sufficiently loud to awaken people.