GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 688, 13 December 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

IBy ■ iAeeablatloo—Gbp/rig ht.l SUFFRAGETTE MEETING. ~-, London, December 10 A great Suffragette mooting at Uie Albert Hall welcomed Mrs. and Miss Fankhurst or their return l from America where, in a feu jninutos thoy collected JC2OOO for tho snffrafrisi cause. WOMEN MEDICAL STUDENTS. London, December 10, The Royal College of Physicians and Stir goow hfts now recognised all the leading medical schools where women Are being trained [This is almost the last of the great colleges to allow women students to pit for its examinations, nnd now women will be eligiblo for the degrees of M.R.C.S. and 31.R.C.P., which 'have hitherto only been held by men.] MEMORIAL TO PHIL MAY. • London, December 10. An influential committee is organising t memorial to the late Phil May, tho well-knowr artist. The memorial will include a tablol in the house where he was born, and a scholar ship in the Leeds School of Arts. BEQUEST FOB CANCER RESEARCH. . Now York, December 10. George Crocker bencathed .£300,000 to th< Columbia University for cancer research. DR. COOK. , New York, Dwomber 10. It is stated that the explorer, Dr. Cook, i< living m retirement at Bronxnllc, 'Now York RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN CANADA. ■ _. ~,.., Ottawa,, December M--I'ive and a half million pounds wero spent or railway contraction in Western Canada dur ing 1809, and six millions )n materials. SIe'FREDERICK DARLEY. „ . , Sydney, December 11. News received from London with regatd tc Sir Fredeiick Darley, for many years Chief Justice of Now Sonth Wales, states that there is no hopo oi his recovery. MR. WADE'S HEALTH. „ „. , „ Sydney, December 11. Mr. Wade, State Premier, is steadily im proving in health. He has booked passage tor himsolf and his'family to New Zealand by Wednesday's boat, but considers it doubtful if he will be able to go unless there is an Improvement in tho strike position. A RECENT WRECK. Sydney, December 11. Advices from,the Cape roport that the certincate of the captain of the Ourimbah, latoh ivrecked at Cope Recife, South Africa, has been suspended for thice , months.