GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 637, 14 October 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright.) ■ ' ; REQUESTED TO RESIGN.' (Rec. October 13, 10.20 p.m.) \ Now York, October 13. Mr. Crane, .who was stopped when about to sail to take' Up tho post of United States Minister to I'eKing, has been requested by the Secretary,.of State, Mr. Knox, to resign: Mr. ■ Crane was responsible for the publication of an article stating that tho United States intended to protest . against Japan's action in Manchuria. ' . •

■ PRESIDENT TAFT IN THE WEST. New York, October 13. Twenty-five thousand people listened to President Taft's Sunday sermon at Fresno, California. QUICKER SERVICE IN TUBE RAILWAYS. London, October 12. There has been a. great acceleration of the 6orvice of the London tube' railways. Fortytwo trains are now running hourly; froni Charing Cross to JJuston a t: the • busiest times of the day, ~ . .

' [The Charihg Cross, Boston, and Hampstend tUDo railway . is eight miles in length, with sixteen, stations, and possesses several unique features. It has two main lines, • and - at Camden Town Junction, where the.fork occurs, tho north-bound arid,south-bound tracks are on different levels,, but both "down" .and both "up" tracks are oh the same level, in order to obviata.tho necessity of changing passengers .taking the lift. It is the deepest' of all tiibo railways, the station at Hampstead being '85 feet beneath the surface, while a short .distance north .of that station the line runs at' a depth of 251 feet. Tho stations of Hampstead ' and. Golder's : Green are the : widest apart of any pair, of tube stations—viz., 1.4 miles. The opening of-, the line had the effect of killing the omnihus service between High ; Street, Hompsteadi and-Oxford Street, whicli had been in regular, operation for seventy years, in Sve days.], ' : . ■

;' KING RETURNS TO LONDON. . London, October 12. • King. Edward .has' arrived' in London from' Balmoral (where his Majesty recently entertained Lord Rosebory, Mr. Asquith, and other, political leaders). . RUSSIA AND 'PERSIA. St. Petertbura, October 12. - .'Russia has withdrawn !part of her troops from Tabriz, capital of the, Azerbaijan Provmco of Persia (which recently deposed its Sultan in favour of his heir). ..-Russia .will leavo a battery , and two companies, there till she i is! cofivinced.' that, 'permanent, order, has boon . established.,

BIG CROWD AT AVIATION TOURNEY; Paris, October 12. Concerning, the aviation tourney' at Juvisv, 14 miles froqv Paris, which is now in'progress,' the papers publish, remarkablo .-details ol the that o.ccurrod,. when' the thousands of spectators were returning liomowards at the conclusion' of tho opening day's programme. Crowds invaded the permanent-way,' and the railway: officials cut tho- electric current. For : a time the struggling, muss'of humanity--was blocked in one. tight, wedge. , ' MR. IURRIMAN'S DEATH ■ New York, October 12. The late Mr. E. H. Harriman; tho railway majnato, left besides six millions which he. divided among his relatives the day before his death. ■ '■:/, .1 ; BIG JEWELLERY THEFT. London, October 12. .'-.-A pickpocket stole, the .keys from' tho manager of Aitohisons, Lndgato Hill, opened tho snop safe, and stole £3000 worth of jewellery. ;. ' CONGREGATIONAL UNION. ■' ■ : . London, October 12. ; ] The Bishop of Sheffield, Dr. Quirk,' entertained the delegates to tho autumnal session of the Congregational . Union of Eiigland ahd Wales. ' : ' CONSUJIPTION-ritlZE FOR ESSAY. London, October 12. - Dr. Camac Wilkinson, a -Hydneyito, won a Royal Collego of Physicians' . triennial prize ! with'an essay on the .subject of the trcat- | ment of consumption. Tho . competition was open to the world. [Dr.. William Camae Wilkinson, iI.D., 8.A., Lecturer in - the Uhiversity of Sydney on the Principles and Praotico of Medicine sinco 1901, was born at Enfield, New South Wales, being a son of ex-Judge WilkmSon. Accdrding to "Johns's Notablo Australians," ho wafe educated at Sydney University (B.A. scholar and gold medallist), London 'University (M.B. versity, scholar and gold medallist in Forensic Medicinb, and flrSt-oloss honours in Medicine). He-became a Fellow of the Royal College cf Physicians, London, in 1902, and for a time was assistant demonstrator in Anatomy nt University College, London.,. From 1883- to 1889 he was .an M.L.A.. of New South Wales, and for a space was also an' Alderman of Sydney. He has gold medals in medicine and clinical , medicine. - His publications include : "Nature and Prevention of Consumption," "Tuberculin as Diagnostic Affent," "The Climate,of the Coast of New South Wales in its Relation , to Pulmonary. Tuberculosis and Influenza," and "The Role of the City Dispensary in the Crusado against Consumption."] MAPOON FLOGGING CASE. Brisbane, October 13. -Tlio Home Secretary, in a minute dealing with the recent -flogging case at' the Mapoon Mission Station, says the punishment inflicted was' not, in tho ciroiimstances, unduly severe, but trusts that some mothod less, repugnant to the opinion of what constitutes adequate punishment for breaches of school discipline should be adopted. ';-'i V'"- OBITUARY. Sydney. October 13, The death is announced_ of: Mr. H. M'Lachlan. Secretary to the. Chief Commissioner of Railways. COMMONWEALTH POLITICS. > Melbourne, October 13. In tho Federal House of Kepreseritativos, the Finance Bill passed its second reading. MEAT-PRESERVING - IN QUEENSLAND. t Melbourne, October 13. Pastoralists interested in Queensland properties have decided to support a proposal to establish preserving works in Central and Northern Queensland, for tho purpose of disposing of their surplus stock.