GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 551, 5 July 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—l'rcsßAssociatlon.—Oopyrisht.) . ' ♦ ' 7 ADMIRALTY MEAT' CONTRACTS. ' ,(Reo.' July 4,-C.o p.m.): * ' London, July 3. Tho Admiralty's Juno contract. for pre* sorved beef ihas been divided equally between the Queensland' and : tho Central Queensland Meat Export Companies. Tho whole of tho contract for mutton has been ' given to tho-Sydney Meat Preserving Company.-';.; ■ NEW AUSTRALIAN LINER. \ ' London, July 3. ■ Tho Otranto,' ono Of tho five now 12,000-tou mail steamers, built for tho lOriont "Coinpnny under tho mnil contract with the Australian Government, has completed her 'sea- ■ , spoed itiials satisfactorily. ' ■ ' [The Otranto and, tho Orvioto huve been bniU ; at Belfast; tho .other thwo are the Orsova, Otwajy and Ostorky. Tho specified speed ii - ' 18 to 19 knots.] '■■ ■ -■ , "SACRIFICED' TO TAMMANY.',' •j . London, July 2. Mr. XJ.: B, M'Clcllan, Mayor of New Yorkj has dismissed General T. 1 A. Bingham, Comliiissioner of Police, ostensibly: because ho ' ; refused to dismiss certain subordinates, Tho . Now York correspondent of '"Tho Timos'? reports that tho general interpretation" is ■ that .General Bingham has been sacrificed for Tammany. ■. ; :;■ ACQUIRED. tendon, Julv 2/ At tho Moath Assizes John Eden Savflo, -iv. an Australian residing at Stamford, Linooln-' 'shire, was aoquittWon the charge of felon-' • .iously shooting at Charles Uniacko, of Dun- : boyno.

COLLIERY DANGERS. I , , Sydney, July 3. . Somo aoubt haa, arisen about tho safety -: of the. workinps in tho Hotton Colliery at i' Newcastle. Tho Government has . oitlorcd ' ■ tho withdrawal of tho miners for tho present.