GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 573, 30 July 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Telc'crapli.-l'rcßß Aflsoclatlou.-Oopyrlcht I 'NOVEL-BOOMING. London, July 28. Peter Ganter, of Munich, has been sentenced to, twelve months' imprisonment for booming a novel entitled "Doublo Faces in Morality" by means of a hoax.

. PENSION TO LADY WILLIE.;/ London, July 28. The Master of Elibank, Junior, Lord" of the' Treasury, announced :in the House df Commons that a life pension of £500 had beengranted to Lady Wylliei'whose husband was,' with Dr. Lalcaca, murdered by an Indian student at the Imperial > Institute'. '

TQBEjaECOMMISSIONED. • ■'•■'"•' ' ';.■••.: •' Sydney, July 29., The, cruisers Flora and Cambrian ■ have reached; Fiji from.the West Coast .of South America, en route; for Colombo, where thoy will be'recomnlissioned. ' ' • . •:■ AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS!: ■•"'.'•:"■' (Rec. July 30, 0.5 a.m.j' „„ • ' , 'Sydney,: July 29. .•meat,,'ss. .'Sid. Flour, £12 10s. Oats, Algerian feeding-,25. 3d. to'2s. Ad., seeding ;2s. sd.'; Tasmanian,! 2s. 7d. to 2s. Bd. Barley, : Cape 3s. to ,3s. 3d. Maize, £3'los. to £4. : Bran, £4 55.,-. Pollard, \£4 15s, Potatoes, Tairiiauiau reda £5; Onions, Victorian £7 10s., New'Zealands £6. Butter, 132s Cheese, 6Jd.: to. Bd. Bacon, 7jd.to M. v w.--''■■'' ; Melbourne, July 29. Wheat, 1 4s. lljd. Flour, £11 10s; Oats, Algerian, Is. 9d. to Is. lid. Barley, Prime ■English.4a'.-,- Cape prime 2s; 9d. Maize,- 3s. 10d. Bran, 10d..Pollard, lid. Potatoes, £4 to £4 15s. Onions, £6. ' , lAdolalde, July 29. Wheat, 4s. lljd. ; Flour, £11. Bran, llid. Pollard, Is. Id. Oats,: Algerian Is; lid. ■

ALLEGED CABLE NEWS MONOPOLY'; Melbourne, July; 29. Senator Pearce, ex-Minister for Defence, has given notice to move hi tho Senate on August 19 .that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the question of supply conditions of sale and distribution which control • the press cable service within the Commonwealth. PIGEONS FOR INTER-ISLAND SERVICE. m,'■■'„ ", ■ , „ July 29. ; • The Colonial Sugar Company is purchasing pigeons for Fiji, where thoy '■ will be trainee! and used as a medium of communication between the company's various island plantations. EARTH TREMORS. Sydney, July 29. Two severe earth' tremors wero felt: at Gundagai last night. . ' AMERICAN DOLLARS : ON TOUR. Sydnoy, July 29. The Government is advised;that a largo party of weulthy American tourists will roach Sydney at tho end of November, and will subsequently visit Now Zealand. Tho Intelligence' Department -is. making Special arrangements to cater for tho visitors. SNOW IN NEW SOUTH WALES. , Sydney, July 29. The weather is bitterly cold. Heavy snow has fallen at Kiandra, and is piled up to tho eaves of the houses. NEW ORIENT LINER. Fremantlo, July 29. Tho Orsova, tho first of tho . fivo new 12,000-ton mail steamers built for tho Orient Company under the subsidised.mail contract with tho Australian Government, has arrived hero. ; ■:,■ > •