GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 597, 27 August 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Ely TeleKranb.-Prcsg Aaaoclntlon.—Coprrielit I _ « _ CHOLERA: IN HOLLAND (Rec. August 26, 9.30 p.m.) London, August 26. Fire deaths from Asiatic cholera havo occurred at Rotterdam, in Holland. Twentyeight persons arc isolated under observation. A VALUABLE "SAVE." London', August 26. Mappin and Webb's jewellery, recovered by the police, when they arrested five men charged with robbery from the firm's premises, is valued at £44,000. HEIR TO AN EARLDOM COMMITS SUICIDE. ' ' ' London, August 25. Lord Eliot, son and heir of the Earl of St Germans, committed suicide 'by shooting himself in a fit of temporary -insanity, nt the Earl's scat near Plymouth, He was aged 24'. TOLSTOI'S BOOKS: DISTRIBUTOR BANISHED. . i St..;' Petersburg, August 25; Count Tolstoi's secretary, Goosef, has been banished for distributing Tolstoi's books. The ground.nf his banishment, is that the books are revolutionary.

CADET CORPS IN BRITAIN. ' .1 London, August 25. The War Office has issued ; regulations for th 6 organisation and administration of "cadet corps. ■ "LOADED" LEATHER. • London, ,August 25. .- ■ Replying to the representations of Mr. J. W.: Taverner, Victorian Agent-General, : that Australian leathers in the English market are. -Brought into unfair:-!' competition with "loaded"- or artificially ■treated lea there imported from the United States and Canada, Mr.- Winston Churchill, President' of ■ tho Board of Trade, states that he io doubtful whether any administrative - measures - exist whereby he can prevent tho'importation of "loaded" leather. Mr. Churchill suggested that ! the Victorian tanners. should take united action to bring the excellence of their leather before the public; SIX MONTHS FOR CONFIDENCE' TRICK.' London, August .25. George Thompson, an , American, has been sentenced to six months': imprisonment' for stealing £100 from William Strong, an Australian merchant,: by moans of the oonfidcnce trick.. v -- NEW BILLIARD RECORD' BY GRAY. , " Melbourne, August n Young Gray, playing in ■ a billiard ma,t(xh against Lindrum, broko the world's record with a breaks of 836, of which 831 vero off the red. . . •r. " WALES. - ■ Sydney, August 26. . Soaking general, rains are falling. , LATE SHIPPING. [ • Sydney, August 26., Arrived.—Bantu, from. Dunedin, - -• •• LATE'COMMERCIAL. :; _. ' Melbourne, August 26.: In the hides 1 market, there wa6 excellent competition, and prices , were very, firm in all classes, '' - r; ■