GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 671, 23 November 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Tclcjraph—l'rosa i Aeaoclntion—Ooity rJcbt.l

CHINA STUDYING BRITISH NAVY. (Rcc. November 22, 9.20 p.m.) 1 . London, November 22. Jling Edward lit Windsor' gavo an audienco to a Chinese mission, which has arrived to study the organisation of the British Navy. SUNDAY HORSE-RACING IN GERMANY. Berlin, November 22. Race meetings have been arranged in Berlin for every Sunday from Maich to November, 1910. The Kaiser hitherto forbado horse-racing iu Berlin on Sundayt, but relaxed this command on finding that racecourses wore unable to pay without Sunday meotings. . AN AMERICAN COPrER' COMBINE. ■ London, November 21. point to the probability of a successful combination and amalgamation of tho Guggenheim and Coleryan producing interests of -America, comprising about 10 per cent, of tho world's copper production. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. J. Rome, November 21. , An arbitration treaty between Italy and Hoi , land has been signed. ' I • t ' - {

':.;.'■ BODY OF; FOUND.: ■:'•'■•': :■■' .'.':' Sydney; November 22.:' The body of a man with his skull badly, frac-tured-has been.found:tied in a sack in n waterhole hear Dungog,'ls6 miles north of Sydney..';.';

/r--: ;■;■.'■ A:;.THE,'SYpNEY:FIRE^;^ : .'::,': j;> .:: ; .'■'•■<!''! ,-,: ■-. Sydney, November .'22; '■) : Messrs. Saxton '■ and Binns, the tirhbor: merbhanti who were burned out at Pyrraont, were insured > for .£40,750. ■■ The New Zealand Company had a. risk' of -..£40,050 (PV-'the.i-National Offico 1£3250,' and the South British There: is only - .£20,000 i nsurance on' the. portion of ■ the premises burnt.-".. : >;.:. -~:- .i/;: ; '■;<.:.;/ ; ;";: