GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By .Association-Copyright.): ! ; '■ :!'''.'; ''■■: ';'!'■■',',.''' ,! ■■■,'■'';.'"'," ■,;■.?, V.V : ' .", MK.: BELL AND, THK';nAIL\VAYMEN.r:',; Vi I,'-.-; .!';.; (Kcci; Oqtobot;;8;y'l; p.in^V^'. '';-. ;-.'.-: •'■■":.•'.'■...• : : '';:' ; 'j' ; '' ':'■ -Lpndonrbclobcr^B,' : .\'. ; .'." : •'. In consequence of Socialist members alleging.■■'■ :: 1 that Mr. Richard Bell.LabourM.l?. fot her by,.... ",'• has misrepresented;, the.: Amalgamated;.-, Rail. '•■ i L '. ; way;Servants';Society in; the House - '.moitf,.'/d;:conference,, of tlie ; Society, sitting! ia "Y-.t caraeraj, determined .'to' relieve Mr. Bell of {all : ; duties- connebted, with"' l'arliainont matters,■■;::,v but,, by .32 votes to 25,' refined; to ask" hira 'to. ''■'.•■■' "-.'" ..resign:,the, secretaryship.'. I,*-;. ,'.' .;; .-., :■■■/'■',■;}' \",.- .:'. the ; s6i\ of a Welsh police sergeanV,"■' -'.', Trailed ihimself' in vtho-raihvayrserviccj becanio'.' • secretary of'; the Amalgamated Uoilw'ay Ser- ', vants' Society, and 'sineo .1900, as-'' M.'i',' fur ■;;'■■" Derby, lias spoken in tho nimio of half-a-'milliuu : i railway workers; This; responsibility now. ap-."-';.'v" .to be.taken away pfroni him, though ho". . , continues secretary. V ■■' ; .;. ' ; ' i ■' ■■ <\*uA n ■ ■.:' ■■■■ ■■■■ '■■■.■. -i. ..;-■ JAPANESE jiOBALITY : A r ;\ ': : U:f,.-..i{Ei?L]JtxriON.; : ,;; ! ., ; . -., -y • "';■ ■'.'■ vi'.';'"> ,v t v'tf;'". ''■■ .'i'. : < ",->~Sttawa, I .October 7. '. : The. Dominion has reprimanded Mr.- Ilarris, its" commissioner pt-T6kohaum, for in'aletter on" Jdpancfo •'■':'. c'omnjorcialnioralitjv. The Government,has also ; : dssuredthev-Tokio .authorities, that it has no ./ official knbwledgo of'f.ho> commissioner's India- , ' oretiori..- '•..■..'■■ ■."•': ,\:>. ,',:.:.: '■■ V..:v.'.;; ;i . ; ;,-.-.',-',-^

: .-'. ANGLO-JAPANESE EXHIBITION. > •'•Toi«lo, , OcH)bfflf 7. . . .The'Japaries6\GoToriinieht hnb dccidcd to take the ..risk' 'of/soliding! the'' finest sculptures hud paintings from the old' temples -in* Japan to the ■ Anglo-,lapancso lijthibitiou; iu l London next year.

IN, MEMORY OP. HARVARD'S' FOUNDER.;; ,: t / ; • ' iv 1 Londin, October 7. , •: Through'tho instrumontality;'of Mario CorelHj,.. .. tlio novelist, ;ths ancient house at Stratford j on- :' Avon, associated, with; John Harvard's / uiotlicrj ■ has been purchased by Americans and restored : Hi every detail.' 'Mr. Whitolaw- Reid, tho AmeriJ . can ambassador in London, opened tho building I ■;'; on- its-cbinpletionV"! •'• ;■' \.. . ) -'> ' ;[Bbrn. at:SouthwArk,. England,- in ,1007,<, Johij; Harvard went to Massachusetts as a clergyman, Inlo37,;and died thero. iiv -thevfollowing year when 31; years of'; age. -'Ho \ bequeathed' to Hnrvird College his /-library of,; about'' thro# , hundred l volumes and half of. his estate.] i ; --.; ij' ! \ COUNTERFEIT HVE-'POUND NOTES. ■ , , • •.. London, October 7. : ■ Counterfeit Bank of England;£s notes are ■ reaching London from Russia,. whero notes-to" tho valuo of £25,000 wcrc. cushed; ', - RUGBY AND PROFESSIONALISM. .;. i f . '' ' London, October 7. ; ~ 'Pho Rugby-Football Union has suspended tho Coventry-Club;(members, of which are chru'gcd -with-professionalism) till ,the? Olid of, tho year, - -v., and has suspended J. Davey during tho UnionM-' pleasure. " 'The; Union hasTeqliostcd-J[:'C. lit;' Dyko to oxplain certain accounts. [Both Davey and'. Dyke ..wfro members.'of // I the : Anglo-Welsh football team- that toured New ' • Zealand last-year.]■;'. ; i ■ PIGEON FLYING: A 'WORLD'S RECORD.. 1 Adelaide, October 8. • At Oodnadatta, in a ; homing'pigeon.race, a bird flow, nearly 515 miles, in 7- hours - 49min« utes-48. seconds.' This is ft world's record, tor .-. tho distance. .■,{ EXTENSIVE 11UUDS Perth, October 8. ,' James Wmdelbank Barker,'charged with dofrauding. the Post' Office Department to tho ox? 'tent, of £1400 sterling by forgery, of v. requisitions for mntfcrial,. bogus contracts, and - certificates for work, done,'-has ljeen conVicted ' V and sentenced to throe-years' imprisonment..-., •"..( LEGAL PRACTITIONERS. " j ■ Perth, October 8. t ; A Bill providing ,for tho admission of wdnag-, f iiig clerks as solicitors has; been read a. sccohd;.,, 'time'in the State Assembly, ; An. unsuccessful; ■' - attoriipt was made- in Committee to socuro the, admission of women o,s legal practitioners,- ,■' ALUMINIUM FOR AEROPLANES. * t Sydney, October 8. .During the list: ten days, .over £3000, worth' of.'shoot aluminium, intended ifor'uso in cori-t structiiig aeroplanes,, has been sold by 'one Syd- . ney firm., . ' <j\'. • ■"f : i [The Commonwealth Government s o£fer i of. a priiA has' stimulated aeroplane construction.' . Tho Governmentiias been deluged with plani.] - FEDERAL POLITICS. j;., . . : Melbourne, October 8. In the House of Bepreseritatlvcs, tho Govern- ; ■ merit undertook tho appointment of n commis; ;• sioli, to inquire into tho sugar: industry,*: arid, to ascertain if this bounties arc 'fulfilliiig the ,ob-' '' jeot for which they were intended. ' : . : Tho Senato lids mndo fnii' with tho Capital Site and. High- Commissioner Bills,' ■