GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Br TcloerßpH.—Press Atoodatlon.-OoDyrlebt.l , « / VICTORIA LEAGUE. (Rec/August 20, 0.26 ajn.) London, August IS. Miss Talhot, secretary of tho Victoria Leaguo, will sail for Australia and New Zea-. land in September. She will also visit Canada. Tho pmnosQ of the tour is to extend tho. Loaguo's work. NEW STEAMER LAUNCHED. London, August 19. The now steamer Star of Canada, .of the Corry line, which is intended for tho conyeyanco <if frozen meat and fruit.from Auatralia, has been launched by Mossre. Workman, Clark and Co., of Belfast. COAL-PIT PONIES STABBED. London, August 18. A number of pit ponies, belonging to the Powell Duffryn Company, wero put into a held at Newbridge, Monmouthshire, owing to stoppage of tho collieries. Two wero aub' scqtiently discovered stabbed to the heart, ami live others-suffering-from gashes on tho neck and body. " ' ' GENERAL fiOOTH'S EYE TROUBLE. London, 'August 18. A recurronco of his eye trouble has pro*' maturely stopped General Booth's projected motor tour. , , [General BooUr is now 80 years of ago. Prior > to his departure for South Africa last jear, a, London paper remarked :—" Already tho gen- - eral's ejos aro dimmed by tho dim of cataract, hi? shoulders boned by the burden of years,, and his gait feeble. An unquenchablo spirit alone oan carry him through tho exacting South' African programme, which will necessitate hie travelling thaie nearly 4000 roilce in trains and deliveiing close upon 100 addresses. ''Will ', my stiength hold out?! He raised his voice t at tho question until it rang out stioncly. 'There's another eight or ten years' work left in my body, oi I am sndly mistaken I have studied my nerves and digestion until I uan , play upon , (hem like a violinist upon tho strings of his> instrument. I know just how far 1 can tuno them up, and when rest is lmpciativo But sometimes when I look ahead, a vision comes to mo of that great uotor, Sir Henry Irung, playing his pait one night, leaving his theatro, and thon—death. Perhaps my end may come upon mo liko that. But I am living for tho sako of tho present just now, and for the good work whioh tho present bniigs to my uaads.'"]'

■;;.;•■■ .;■;■'■ v : OBITUARY. V, j ; ;..-, ; V;'. j^; [ ". .;";: . ' v London, August 18. : The death is announced of Sir Theodore . Martiii, the author and poet, , aged 92,,;.•■-..' ■ ■;. , [Sir Theodore author and translator,', born at -Edinburgh" in -Jflβ. translated"l'oeras hnd Ballads of Gdetho" Horace's Odea, ISiiO), Catullus:(18G1), , (1862), and Gootho's-"Faust" ■ (JB6Z). He wrote : . ■"Jiife'of the Prince ..Consort", (1874-80), ''Life of; Lord Lyndhurst" (1883), and "Qutcn Victoria, as I Knew Her". (1908). "All Sir-Theodore. Martin's.'. 1 translations/' - sayV a. critic, ■ ?tooVdistininush.ed: for their singular' fidelity to the originate, but perhaps the -finest and most spirited are those froiiiGoethe and Horace."] , ; ! .."'v v '. ■ /■>?';• '.'■ PRICES'OF METALg. ■:' .; ■■;, '/••',(Reo. August, 20, 0.25 a.m.) ■'•.; ;v;'V , . ';'.: .■.'" ~"' London, August ; 19. \\ tho spot, £59 lls;' 3d.;'.- three, months,- £60 108. por ton. Tin—On the spot, £136 7s. 6d.; three months, £187 125., 6d.- per tom : ' Lead,.£l2-10s. - per ton.; ;s \ -.' - ? ,'-.--.' ; - WHEAT. ''^'^ ;>■ .'■.',■-■ ■'. ; ' \-.' '. A'London, August 19; v Tho American visible supply of wheat, ia 16,891,000 bushels.;,' , '■;.:.■/■ 'kV,^ .<\ '■'. .. ':. : THE SWEDISH STRIKE.' '•. : '■■•. : .'."■■- W.v- .stookholmV August 18.. ■ , Tho Swedish, railway men, by _ a large majority, adopted a resolution against striking. Further reports ?of resumption of work come' to handjwmi many towns. -~r , ' • ' ; . INDIA: '- '&■' RAJAH'S ANTI-SEDITION v'. '...■ ■■!,•■ ■■■■ •.:-■>■; -warning;,,;,--,./,„;- 'U ' "■'.-■■';'.,' .•..■:..■ ■-:/'';.'..-'CalouttaV' August: 18.';>> ■ . Tho Maharajah : of; Jaipur has warned hi* '■'. subjects-to: avoid: tlio ; 'mad, wicked movement" against English rule, and has ordered •the prosecution and punishment of preachers of sedition, whether publicly or privately., EX-SHAH'S- ESTATES MORTGAGED' TO V:.:.,;, :■■;■.;■ :\'- : l;\ RUSSIA. : . ;:,:, .; -..', y ::'■.'• :-,'■■,,'■" .''.."Teheraii,. Augosli.;lß.-' '■• ! The departure of tho ox-Shah (Mohammed AH Mirzil) has boon postponed, owing to the discovery ;that-his private; estates ik tho v provinco of Azerbaijan ai - « largely hypothecated to the; llussian .Banlj for ;dobts con- . tracted when ho was Crown .Prince.r-Ew.. Nationalists are' anxious to avoid control 1 of the estates passing to Russian' agents, , and suggest that the ex-Shah should be granted an increase .of his pension (recently fixed at £15,000 por annum), 1 if the property is :ceilad to the Persian Government, which. is willing to liquidate the arrears of payment.' ;*. ..'. .;..,'• ■ . ■.■,.;.•.'"■:•'■ ■■ ■■'■'"'.I ' - ■.:■ \ -• N.S.W. BORROWING—INTEREST RATE' ■'. - •■ ~.:■;.- RAISED. :: ■-.;:■.■" ,■; ■ -'.'.;> . Sydney, Avgust 19. v , The. New South Wales' Government ha? raised the rate of interest on inscribed stock from 3 J to 3J por cent. Tho advance'has, been mado in view of tho higher prices being■'.; paid for money in.tho local market by other Statesi The:. Govornment 'is issuing half-8 million of uow stock at 3J per cent. ~ SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WINE'INDUSTRY. '..■■■■ ,; v Adelaide,' August 19. The Government Statist reports that the' vintage this year Is a l'ecprd ono. The quantity of wine mado'amounts to 3,132,000 gallons, an. increase of 1,070,000 gallons. LUNACY IN NEW SOUTH WALES. > ! •'.,".;.. Sydney, August 19.; The- report of the luspeotor-Gendral of ' InsAWV shows that at tho end of last year 5705 'insane persons were undor .official supervision in the State—'an increase of .98. '■ The cost of maintenance was,. £165,427. ; ; ' ' : FLOODS IN VICTORIA. ■■■;,' : ;.- Melbourno, August W. 1 There arc heavy floods throughout tlxv country. v DECREE NISI. Molbourne, August'l9. A decree nisi has been granted Ladj Clarko in her suit against hor husband, Sir Rupert Clarke, with costs. LATE SHIPPING. Melbourne, August 19. Arrived.—Cornwall, from Liverpool.