GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(By Telegraph-Pren Aiioclatlon-OopyilghU • ———'■ *'" ■■ '•._:■;.- ADMIRALTY CONSTRUCTION ORDERS. (Rec, December 7,, 9.15 p.m.) nit. .j •?„ , London, December 7, _Ine Admiralty has given orders to the lnames Ironworks Company for)the construction of two cruisers. The question of the conBtructuuvof a Dreadnought in the Thnmesfor whichi Liberal East :End members' of the Homo of Commons have been agjtating-is still undecided, ... .. - NEW BISHOP- OP NEW GTTINBA. .: mu t> „ ,',•-„, London, December G.. v The_ Key. Gerald Sharp,' vicar, of WWtkirk, Yorkshire, has:been chosen Bishop of New , [The:.. Anglican dioceso of Now Guinea was founded in 1898., It covers an\ area of aboutj 80,000 squara miles, and the population is estimated at about 12,000. According to latest statistics, .the staff consisted of seven clergy and thirty-four lay. workers nnd native' helpers. • ?„5, r o eT 2? n8 b ! sho J? , (D ?- Stone-Wigg) resigned in: 1908 through ifi-health,. after ten years' work, which has been described as "one of the wonders of modern missionary enterprise."] , ■■':- ',-.' ■'.' A FARTHING DAMAGES. . ;•:•'-,' : . T , .', , ', London, December 7. i Judgment has been given in the case brought Wni. t ' I l t wc J oa i, rm °f-Cadbnry Bros. . against „2bs Standard 'for alleged, libel published on September 28, 1908, uommonting on the alleged .delay of Cadbnry Bros, in,ceasing to purchase Principe and San Thomecocoa (which tho three leading British cocoa firms have banned as being prpduced by slave labour). The jury awarded plaintiffs a farthing damages. The Jitfge - refused to deprive plaintiffs? of their posts,. . ; -.-, ■;'.'. ■■■. -'.-■.-. .'■ • ; ■ XATE COMMERCIAL-METAL MARKETS. .■■.■*■•■ „: ,v : London,:' December 7. Copper-On the spot, J859 3s r Sd.j three months, ,65.! 3d.; electrolytic, ,£Ol per ton. Tm-On-the spot, .««; throe months, -£M 15s. a-ton. .•" '■■ V:, ■'■ -.; •••-.'•. '•; / ..'--'IHSE IN CONSOLS.;'" '■;; "'" / ': „ ■: '-,"■'. London, December 7.' , are quoted at 483 Ib, 3d., a riso of Bs. od.'since last week.-:. ; ., ;■■ . A'CORRECTION.' , v /;" : '■ ;.'■■• ■~.''•"■" "•) •' ''.'■« '■'■ London, December' 7,;. , It jas Mr, Askwith, Assistant, Secretary of the Board-of Trade,. Svho : . represented Mr* Churchill .before the West, of Scotland Steel rmL U K not; M r- Asiuith, Prime' Minister::, ,U no above" is; a 'correction''of -'tho following ; cablegram appearing .in'.yesterday's: issue•-. . 'bpeaking.- before the West of Scotland i Iron and Steel Institute, .the Prirab Minister, Mr. Asquith, representing; the President of v the Board of Trada (Mr.,. Churchill), stated tlmti as ono,who had access' to'.',the statistics of tho world, he had every reason, to hope that the period of depression would rapidly pass away. Ha believed there \vould be a most marvellous improvement: in. trade during' 1910, The question-of employment would bulk largely in the coming'election."] ;■;,,::.

KING MANOEL'6 RETURN. _. Lisbon, December o.' King Manoel of Portugal, who has been 01} a visit to Britain and France, received a popular and enthusiastic reception on his return to Lisbon. , , ■'• ■•' [Referring to the marriage rumours connected with King Manool's visit to Britain, an Australian papo*- says:—"Tho' two ladles spoken of bto tho ~.youpgor 'and unmarried daughter of tlio Duke of Connaught, who' is threo years and a half ol<)or than tho youthful monarch; and tho elder daughter of the Princess Royal and the Duke of Fife, who was eighteen last May. ll There js the. question of religion to'bo got over, but that is not impossible, as the case of the Queen of Spain proved." King Manoel is aged twenty.]

OBIGH COMMISSIONER.: .' '■'mi ■' MelbpUrno, Poc'embor. 7.V Tho Federal ' Prime Minister,; 'Mr.; Deakin, expects-to be able to announce the name of the High Commissioner before' the end of the session,-,, .v','* -.-'...-"■-'-■•' ■..'-■''■*■<•'■■ .•'''■'.'•' ■'■■'