GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 552, 6 July 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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' DANTON'S LAUNCH COMPLETED. ", e (Rec. July 5, 10.15 p,m.) ' *' | 5 J< \ „,,, parts,, July 5. ', i The launch of'tho 'French ' Dreadnought i Danton, which stuok on the slips on sMay 1 23, while being launched at Brest, ndw ' been completed. ' » [It was cabled on May 28 that the failuro to '] launch tho Oanton had cost the Trench Go- | vernment .£20,000. The Danton class'are stated , to be of 18,300 tons, carrying four 12-inch'and ( twelve 9,1 incl) guns, and turbines equal to 22 knots,} SULTAN MOHAMMED AND HIS NAVY. • ' ' Constantinople, July 5. The Sultan,' Mohammed V, reviewed tho Turkish Fleet, under ,Admiral Gamble (the English officer who was appointed to reorganise Turkey's Navy). The Sulton held a reception aboard tho flagship. GERMAN DIAMOND LANDS.-A BOLD ESTIMATE. , Berlin, July 5, | Herr Dernburg, Gorman Minister for the Colonies, estimates tho vajuo of the diamondbearing deposits in Gorman Southwest Africa at £50,000,000. , . '* TRANS-ATLANTIC SHIPPING SLUMP. New Yprk, July 4, The balance-sheet of the International Mer» oantjlo Marine Company (the Morgan Trust, comprising tho Amorican, Atlantic Transport, Dominion, Red Star, and White Star lines) shows a deficit for 1908 of 1,729,000 dollars (about £346,000). CONVEYANCE OF A FORTUNE, SET , ASIDE. London, July 4. The Master of tho Rolls in Dublin has set aside a deed by which John Boyce, formerly of Naples, and now an inmate of a Dublin institution, conveyed a fortune to St. John Brenon, for many years a journalist in London. < • MELBOURNE-FIJI SERVICE. , Melbourno, July 5. ' ,Tho contract recently made for a fortnightly stoamer service between Melbourno and Fiji has been abandoned. Possibly another higher tenderor may accept the ton, tract. ' [The contract now stated to bb abandoned is ovidontly that entered into by Mr. Sleigh for a fortnightly service between Melbourne and Fiji at ,I'GOOO per annum, the Victprian Gov. ernment paying .£I7OO and ,the Fiji Govern, ment .M300.J v BRAVERY IN LIFE-SAVING. ■ Sydney, July, 6. An address and a piece of plato have been presented to Mr- Darroch, chief officer of the L'limaroa, by a number of ..passengers, in recognition of his bravery in saving a passenger who foil into! the water at Wellington on the vessel's last trip, [On Friday evening, June 23, just as the Ulimaroa was -about to leave Wellington for , Sydney, a man named William Graham was reaching over the gangway to bid fnrewoll to a friencl, but, unfortunately, renohed 100 far, • and fell into tho water. Tho chief officer of tho Ulimaroa, Mr- Darroch, noticing the oc- | ourronco, dived in after the man to' .effect a rescue, and both were soon hauled aboard by j tho aiil of a rope.] BASEBALL. Sydney, July 6. Tho Columbia boys, frpm America, defeated tho University at baseball, by 13 to 7.