GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

By Tolograph—Press Association—Copyright * CANADIAN PROSPERITY. (Rec. December 28, 10.20 p.m. ) Ottawa, December 28. The mild winter in Canada has resulted in great prosperity. Work is, plentiful, and 158 manufacturers need 5962 Bkilled artisans. i MORGAN SELLS TRAMWAY STOCK. New York, Decombor 28. , Mr. Pierpont' Morgan has sold to a syndicate his share in the Chicago tram- . ways, realising a million sterling. ', GERMAN BALLOON MISSING. Berlin, December 27. " ' A balloon, with a lieutenant aboard, > left Dresden on Dccember.lß, and passed. • Stockholm northwards on December 19. . Since then nothing has been seen of it. WHEN THE HEIR GOT THERE THe' CUPBOAE-D WAS BARE. J London, December 27. , Senator Patania,-a *.capolitan, was re- ' • puted to have left a fortune of .£BOO,OOO , ■ enclosed in a safe. When the safe was i ■ opened, however, it contained nothing. • Signor Patania's heir believes tho money i 1 and notes were stolen; Ho' declares .that Patania's jewels were rocently pawned. PURE MILK CAMTAIGN IN LONDON, j London, December 27. J The "Daily Express" states that, in I connection with the puro milk campaign, i" tho municipalities are striking a thousand milkshops off the register in tho New ~ Year. '* BRINGS .£500,000 CAPITAL IN A YEAR. London, December 27. 0 During the presont year foioign firms \ holding English patonts have oxponded p . hilf a million pounds in purchasing land d and erecting buildings and plant in Eng- -' land. 3 LORD KITCHENER, tt Brisbane, December 28. 13 Owing to sorrere floods the Kitchener 10 camp had to bo postponed. Under pre- '; sont arrangements Lord Kitchener leaves t. Melbourne for New Zealand on Fobrunrr ;; 12. J \\ GASOMETER WRECKED. •• Sydney, December 28. J. During a cyclonic gale in the Bluo i- Mountains the gasometer at Kaioomba r, overturned, plunging Katoomba and v- Loura in darkness. i ■ ■