GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 590, 19 August 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

|23y. Telegraph.—Proao Aaiotltillon.—Copyright,! < :■ SECRETARYSHIP OF BRITISH POST OFFICE. , (R-eo. August 18, 10.20 p.m.) ii', - London, August 18. ' Sir' Matthew Nathan, Governor of Natalj will succeed Sir H. Babington Smith as Secretary .of-the-Post Offloa. . NO RESPITE FOR VELTHEDL (Rec. August 18, 10.10 p.m.) London, August 18. Replying in tho Houso. of Commons to a • question by Mri J. Cathcart Wason : (Liberal), the Ho.no Secretary, Air. •• Gladstone, . stated • that "he was unable to find any : . ground for 'intorference'with. the ■ sentence. of . 20 years' imprisonment : passed on Veltheim in February for blafckmailing "Solly" Jo£l. • CHINESE AMBASSADOR AND SIR J. G. WARD. • ' London, August 17. Sir Joseph and-Lady Ward were ; onter- ' fcained at lunohcon by tlio Chinese Ambassador, Li Ching Fong. DARWIN EXHIBITION. ' London, August 17. The Danvin . Exhibition lifts been opened ; 'at South'. Kensington. _■ It is fully illustrative of the studies and discoveries of the. great naturalist..'V'.-. DHINGRA'S EXECUTION. • . LOndon,' August 17. .. . Dhingra was stolid and defiant to the end. 1 ; During the interval between his conviotioiv , and sentence; ho ,read 'many ; ,booka, : , but throughout he showed no iigus'ofjeiir..This morning he walked to the. scaffold at Eentonville Prison, uiiassistod. Death was'.instahcaiieous. \

TERRITORIALS: BED CROSS AID." ■ London, August 17. With tho approval of tho War Office, tho ; . British lied' Cross Society.,is organising a , :\ . large';' scheme'of voluntary., aid for. sick , and I ■ wounded by means of nurses .and ambulance men, 'as an adjunct to .the Territorial Forces. ■ . ' ; APPROPRIATION BILL. '■■■.■ London, Augost.l7. ' ; The Appropriation , Bill, which has already passed tlio House of Commons, has passed the House of Lords. , ■ ■' : • DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN GLASGOW. : ■ Lontlon, August 17.'A largo block of business premises, .to.getlier witlr the Albert Hall, ill Ingram Street, Glasgow, has been destroyed by fire. Tho damago done ainountsto a quarter of a million.' -:V, ■ RUGBY : TEAM.. Sydney, .August 18.' .' . .■ ■ Tho following team will reprosent Sydney University in the tour of. New. Zealand under the 1 - Rugby,;Union:'—Backs—Stafford, Kelly, Lano, Stack/ , Browning, Pocklcy, . Fisher, Hughes, Ross, Curtin, Ourtiss 1 ; for : ■ wards—Reynolds, Broughton, Clayton, Maxwell, Metcalf, Martin, Lindemen, Doyle, •Jones, Maiden, Macartney, and Bowker.