GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
.(By Taleffraph.-Pfciß AeioclalloD.-Oopjrlcht I . 7'.-' .• '-.'-frr — KING. EDWARD'S HEALTH CURE. "■ (Reo. August 25, 8.35 p.m.) London, August 25. : King Edward has been greatly bonofited by the mineral baths at Marienbad.
■ GAS EXPLOSION: FIFTEEN KILLED; London, August 24. . .Latest reports show, that fifteen persons were lulled and thirty • injurod-'by the gasworks -oxplosion at Geneva. -
THE CHEAPSIDE ROBBERY. , London, August 24, . In connection with the Sunday nftcrnoon raid on Mappin and Webb's by ten robbers, live of whom were arrested, it is, now stated tbat detectiv.os bad bcon watching tho suspicious conduct'of some of tho prisoners, kater they saw ; them : emerge from tho building. Tho valuo of the jowels reoovercd is between £30,000 arid £40,000. UNITED STATES ARMY. _ .' Now: York, August-24. President Taft denies that ho has ordered n reduction of the; army. Tho difficulty is, no says, to obtain sufficient reoruits to keep eighty .thousand men with tho colours. -~ ARCHBISHOP "OF SYDNEY: . . . London, August 24.' Archdeacon Wright, of Manchester, was con&ocratcd as Archbishop of Sydney by the Archbishop of Canterbury, • assisted. by the Bishops of-Salisbury and Manchester, and others. Tho ceiomony took platxs in - St. Paul 6 -Cathedral, in tlio pfesciico of a largo congregation. •: . ■ ■ SNOW, OR AN ILLUSION? • Sydnuy, August 25. Information has beeh received here that a Dutch expedition will loavo > Batavia nest month, undor tho leadership of Dr. Lorez, to explore the snowy mountains of New Guinea, Recent .travellers who havo sighted these mysterious mountains diffor in opinion as to whether tho ranges aro snow-capped or whether the supposed snow is merely an illusion;. .
LATE COMMERCIAL
London, August 25. Copper—On the spot, ,£SO 13s. yd;; three months, £61 per ton. Tin—On . the spot. £138; three months,' £139 2s. 6d. per toil. _ . Sydney, August 25. The pnee of butter has' been reduced by 10s. . per. cwt.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 596, 26 August 1909, Page 5
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300GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 596, 26 August 1909, Page 5
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