GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

; By TolegTapfi-Fro93 Association— Copyright 1< ' 0 -A STEAMER MISSING. (Eec. December 20, ,1015 pm) London, December 29 The steel screw steamer Capna, 2032 tons gros3, built at Glasgow in 1889 and registered at Hamburg, is missing in the .North Sea, and is regarded as lost. The Capna was bound from Hamburg to Genoa, with a crew of 23 TOLSTOY ILL. „ * London, December ,28! Count Leo Tolstoy, tlip eminent Russian 'writor, now 81 years of age, is confined! to his bed. Ho is sulforing from on attack of fever. , / [ ' G. P. SHELDON DEAD. ' fdew York, December 28 G. P. Sheldon, the deposed president of the Phoenix Insurance Company,, died from'ptomaine poisoning.' [It was cabled on December 8: "The Pnoomx Insnranco Company, New York, is writing off .£200,000, which Mr. G. P Sheldon, late president, used in his own speculations Mr., Hotchkiss, Superintendent of the State Insurance Dopart- , i inont, ,declaies that there had been no examination of tho Phoenix accounts for 22 years." A later message added- "Sheldon has been indicted for appropriating 1,000,000 dollars (.£200,000) Ho was not arrested,''because he is ill and in a critical condition"] . .* ' —- /'' BEET-SUGAE A GERMAN, OFFER TO < SUFFOLK. London, December 23 Owing to the soil in Suffolk being bet tar- than that in Germany, a Continontal firm mado nn offer to several t Suffolk farmers to grow beet The foreign factory will'pay 17s per ton, and will sup ply seed gratis It will also pay freight, Tho offer'has been accepted. f , INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. jS ' London, December 28. , Jfho 'Board of Trado is inquiring with to'the'bearing and titect'of 'the Tensed international copyright convention. 'It recommends that the colonies should bo urged to come into lino with tho Motherland, in order to secure a uniform law throughout itho .Empire. - ' ATHLETICS. ''' I London, December 28. The Queensland sprinter, A. B. Postle, has sailed for South Africa to compete in eovoral big matches tlioie. 1 ' OBITUARY. ' v l " J ' Berlin, December 28 Th« death has occurred of Herr Paul Mondellssohn, head of Mcndellssohn's Bank- m Berlin. i London, December 28. The death is announced of Mr lli shard .Bowdjer Sha,rpo, the noted ormth* elogist, aged 62. ■ „ „ > [Mr. Sharpe, Assistant-Keeper of the .' Department of Zoology at the British Museum, waß horn in 1847, and was the author'of the "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum" 'and of • other ornithological works. Ho was the holder of'the gold medal for soionco from the Emperor of Austria. Mr, Sharpe presided at the International Ornithological Congress in 1905] ■ \ BUSSIAN SEIZURES OF BRITISH i < SHIPS. J -™. , T 'St. Petersburg, December 28. L The Notional Defence Committee of tho Duma has voted a credit of £150,000 to pay damages awarded to British shipowners under judgments of the Prwe Courts m connection with tho RussoJapanoso War. / > [It is understood that tho unsatisfied claims of British ship owners for seizures 1 d F.£ B th ? Russo-Japanese War were one of the subjects discussed when tho King and the Tear me t a t At rat » smco thent the Russian Prize, Court has jbimS* • t ¥. l ° TOcra <* the Ikhona jvk S3: m. thß own< il 3 of . th 9 st - Kll da , 44Mb,»5b. 'ihere nro other claims.] „ A RUSSIAN STEEL INDUSTRY. St. Petersburg, December 28. *,Ths\ Eusaan i Bkel uilustry has started, having just secured its first order from abroad Ihe Obukhoff Works hon ■undertaken to supply on English mix•haser with 30,000 fens of steel. " ' AUSTRALIAN WEAIJHER. <m* „L«~ Br,s ' ,anß ,i December 29. Iho weather is now clearing, and theie &,,% °L th ° fl™3 be postponed t owing to floods, being held. In one district twentyeight inches of rain fell in five days Sydney, December 29 ine weatber continues very hot. The temperature'in tho city to-day was 98 SOUTH AUSTRALIA PROSPEROUS. i * ■ , «. December 29. Admiral Sir Day Bosanqi.et, Governor of booth Australia, at an Anniversary Day function, said this year had been tho most prosperous in tho State's Justory.