GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

■ ißy -Teleffraph—Prtias Association— : FIRE AT MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY'S SEAT. (Bee. Novomber 7, 5,5 p.m.) • ■ London,-November 6. ■A disastrous fire. occurred at'-the, Marquess of Anglesey's seat at Beau Desort, Eugeley,Staffordshiro. All the heirlooms and pictures were saved. :. .r, • BOIJD THEFT OF iio,ooo. ' ■ ■ -■-... ~y - New York, November 5. Thieves dynamited, a safe lin tho. purser's oihco, on tho Hamburg. American liner Princo Joachim, in New. Ttork . harbour, and stolo .-610,000 in -, gold. A- hundred of the -passengpi's - and crew were sleeping on board at the timo, 6ix of them within 40 feet of tho ofSco. . . .. - : . ' \ ■ GAMBLING IN AMERICAN COTTON. ■ . Now .York, Novomber 5, ■ ; There ls-exeitement on the New York cotton market, consequent on. a report. that four, of the -principal "bulls" are liquidating their lines, after Clearihg profits'amounting to'thirteen million dollars (<£2,000,000). -Prices ha,vO slumped heavily.• s - PLAGfJE BATS IN GERMAN SOtJTH-WEST AFRICA. ■, A - Berlin, November 5. t It is reported that the Government of Togoland, in Gorman West Africa, has ordered cats to; bo kept: in all tho, publio buildings' trequentod by natives, in order to eradicate ' plague-infected ruts. • aerial Torpedo from a rifle. , Vienna, NovomW 5. Herr Bortuoh, an Austrian engineer, has* invented a ; diminutivo ■ aerial ■ torpedo, to bo discharged: from a riilo, capablo of bringing down an airship at a height of upwards of 3000 feet. • : FELTHAM BANK FRAUDS. 1 : London, November 5. The appeal 6f HaTry Benson against his conviction in connection with tho rFeltham Bank frauds has been dismissed. TRANS-CONTINENTAL CYCLINGS ' ~ , Sydney, November 0. Bit ties, the cyclist, who left Fremantlo on beptomber 29 to rido to Sydney,-has reached Broken- Hill, Ho expects to reach Sydney within forty-three days from the timo of his quitting ;Fromantle., .. - ; THE FIRE IN HOBART. • Hobari,-Novomber 0. : Tho llobart. Exhibition building, the centro of yesterday's firo, covored nn acre and a half. Only the walls are left standing.