GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
i IBy ; Telegraph—Pre3a ABBdolatlon-OowrlEht I : BANNING THE "DOTJBTEUL" 'BOOK. _ : . v . London, December 2. Too Circulating .Libraries' • Association has determined -not to,, circulate.-.scandalous,..libel-, lous, or immoral books, and' those likely,.'to prove offensive "to,. any :considerable,.sectionof subscribers. This'action4is l :the. result of ciistorners' complaints about tho rccent ■ increase in the output of. doubtful books. "The. Times' ": Club and Smith's and Mudio's are leading,,the movement. , v . ..,' THE CLAN MACPHERSON POSTED AS MISSING. L,, '• _ . London, December 2. , 1 The ship Clan Maopherspn,' which left New- : castle, Australia, on Juno' 24, . for. Valparaiso, coal laden,' has; been posted: as' missing. ■ . [The ■. Clan ?! Macpherson,: a British: ship, brought a catgo of. : general merehandiss Glasgow for Sydney mid Newcastle, and ar'rived: at Sydney* on: May l l9' last. Upon cotapletion of : discharging operations at Newcastle, she/loaded a\ cargo , of . 2485 tons of 'coal from the colliery, in addition to;. 12 tons< for ship's usa,' and 1 sailed for Val. paraiso oil' June 24. ' The Beechohn somo years ago ocoupied 108 days on the- run from 'Newcastle to Callao, -and other : prolonged ; voyages; were'those ,of, the-Earl Caaogon, 09 days to Valparaiso, tho Ednyfod, 09 days to Salaveijry, and tho Philiptio • Denegrl, 97 days Jto; Junin;..-' The Clan-Macpherson has been out IC2 days.] . • • V'.'. ■ . . LABOUR EXCHANGES—NEW BILLETS. , London, December 2. • i Lieutenant Adams',., a'■ member,of ..Shackleton's , Antarctic expedition, • has bcon appointed to superintend one of tho six' principal Labour Exchanges (established- under the Bill passed by the Government this year). The ap- : pointments include two ; Transvaal retrenched Civil Servants. , • .- -■ AN AMERICAN NEGRO 'BURNED.' ; ' New York, December 2. ; John Harvard, a negro preacher at Cochran, Georgia, fired.and seriously wounded a motorist whoso . car - had; frightened . his •'mules.' . ; Tho mob burned Harvard at tho stake! ■■■■■•'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 681, 4 December 1909, Page 5
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287GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 681, 4 December 1909, Page 5
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