GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 555, 9 July 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

i (By ToleEraph.-Prcaa .Assoclallon.-Copyrlclit.) GARDEN CITIES-DELEGATION FROM GERMANY. ' ' (Rcc. July'B,, 10.10 p.m.) ~ > London. July 8. > The Lord Mayor and tho Shonffs of York welcomed 200 members of tho German Gar- \ i den City Association. King Edwaid, Mr Ascjuith, Mr. Haldane, and the Archbishop of York sent greetings. A WELLINGTON STUDENT'S SUCCESS. Londeii, July 8. Mr. T. H. Laby, of Wellington, has been awarded tho Emanuel College (Cambridge) Sudbury-Hardyman reseaich prize. TRAVEL AND SPORTS EXHIBITION.' ' ' . London, July 8. > Lieutpnant Shackleton opened tho travel and Bports exhibition at Olyinpia. ! SLAVERY IN ZANZIBAR". London, July 7. .News has been received that tho Zanzibar Gazette Las published a decree abolishing tho'legal status of'slavery in Zanzibar and Pemba. ' t FLOODS IN UNITED STATES. New York, July 7. > Enormous damage has 'been caused by i floods in Colorado, Missouri, and Ohio. Re- . lief trains carrying food have been sout to isolated places. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. \ Paris, July 7. ' Tho French Government has agreed to extend the full benefit of tho workmen's compensation law to Englishmen living in ' Franco. / ' EULENBURG AND HIS ILLNESS. Berlin, July 7. Owing to an attack of heart disease in Court, Prince Philip von Eulenburg's tria.l on a charge of poijury, arising out of his evidence in tho Moltke-Harden case, has been indefinitely postponed. The authorities alleged that his illness is caused artificially. ; A NATIONAL OPERA. ' ' London, July 7. It transpires that the donor of £300,000 (not £3000 as stated yesterday) to endow a ' British National Opora is Mr. Joseph Beecham, tho patent medicine manufacturer, and father or Mr. Thomas Boecham, the musical conductor. ' , ' ADVENT OF TAXI-CAB TO SYDNEY. Sydnay, July 8. Six taxi-cabs commenced lunning in Syd- ( ney to-day. If they tiroyo Buccrssful tho , company which has undertaken tho venture 1 proposes to import 1 more. IMMIGRATION AND SELECTION. ' Sydney, July 8. , ' Mr. Wftdo,, the State Premier, in defend- ,- ing tho Government's immigration ' policy, t said every effort had been mado to obtain ' the right kind of immigrants. Last year J tho Agent-Gcnernl's Office advieed no fewer ' than 2t),000 people that they wore unsuited , for emigration. SYDNEY SHEEP SALES. Sydnoy, July 8. r At the sheep snlcs an average of £4 7s. f fid. was obtained by Mr. Hay (Pigeon Bay) { for his Dorsets. (iooj prices were lealised i for Tasmaman Morino stud sheep. The ram y Monarch, belonging'to the Gibson stock, \ fetched 560 guineas. ' • ' i CIGARETTE-SMOKING BY BOYS. }. Melbourne, July 8. j Tho tobacco mamifaeturors ato backing up c the State Government's efforts to ston " cigarette-smoking among l.oys. I , '■ , -