GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(lly Telegraph.—J'rcss Asaoclnllou — OodstlcUl I O r . , LATE COMMERCIAL. ' ' ' (Rec. August 13, 11.55. p.in.) London, August 13. In the wheat market, 12,000 to 16,000 quarters of- new crop,'December-January shipment, sold at 395. i Pig ironi 60s. 2d. per ton. . Spelter, £2 17s. Bd. per ton. ,

TERRITORIALS INJURED BY MOTORVAN

London, August 12 A-motor-ran .: at - - Tilsliead. m''..Wiltshire, ■ dashed .'into va: jjarty; of: London ■ territorials returning ;to f Roplestono scamp from ; military manoeuvres. : Soventoen' of the inon woro r injured, five of them' seriously* IMPRISONMENT FOR BANK FRAUDS ■ ■' London, August' 12. MacWhirter, Clelland, and Stafford,, directors of the Mutual ' Bank of Glasgow, have been,' 'sentenced to three - months' : imprisonment .forfalsifying tho 1905 : 'balance-sheet. Wilson, another director, who ! was also found guilty of embezzlement,. was sent to gaol for eighteen months. NEW ORIENT LINER. Fremantle, August 13.» ''The.Otway—the second of the' Orient Company's 12,000-ton. liners .built, under ..the subsidised mail contract" with, the 'Co'mnioriwfealth—has/.airived; here ;on her., maidan voyage. .. ' ■ ■ CHAMBERS OF' COMMERCE CONGRESS. . ■ • • Porth, August 13. Sir Albert Spleer, president ' of the,. Congress of Chambers' of Commerce, has" ornvod hero on his way to the meeting at Sydney. ■ COST . OF AMERICAN FLEET'S VISIT. Melbourne,-August 13. The cost to tho Federal Government qf entertaining, the, American fleet. on its , visit to Commonwealth ports last year was £31,461. :i " '" ■' TWO MINERS KILLED. . i ■ ■ ■ Sydney, August 13. A fall of, rook at Bulahdelah killed two miners, named Keel and Crockford, and injured a third.