GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 708, 6 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

!iy Telegraph-Press Associalion-Cooyneht t> PRUSSIAN SAVINGS BANK FIGURES. (Rec< January 5, 930 p.m.)

."'■:■■ .;■;Vo- : ■■'':] .,• ■'"■•■ ■■-. Berlin,? ,/. ; . Statistics for :the : year. :1908r-which■■ have only/now.come. to', hand— show. :; .that,;the savings , bank '..'deposits in'-Prussia- totalled .;i'i7B,(iso,ooo,,andv:thevexcess of .deposits o v.er ; ; withdrawal?.'- sis "millions. : : The' && ■posits■ are chieilydn. the.■ Rhine provinces and .in':Westphalia:/ '.": V.:v *<■:,;>•.<,:■?,..■. ■■■■•■'

■ ',;■ v'■ '• : - v v' -.-Berlin/'- January. , '£■ ■'■.. ■:■. :Miiny;.ice.:.'aceidents::■-have'.'Voi.uirred in' Germany 'during the-New;Year festivities, twelve -deaths from.- drowning have beeii , ported.'iZ-v, y;-;;:\:-;.^r.-:':;■'.-yy^K;.;^^^;;.;

; ; ASSIOTA^T-P^Sm^ST^E-GBNEEAL.^ ■''■}■'%■■'.' ■ '••: : \ -■'■-■,''-'■: :Loridon,';January;4/:.!'-, '.-Sir.';H. Norman,'iiber'al -member .for South;- ■ >Wolverhampton,;- has-.;.been '; .appointed Assistant-Postm aster-General. ■• The pmco-;is;,created -under 'the.Act :0f. : i909. .'; [Sir: Henry : Norman, was" born -in.' 1858,; and.'i'ocoived; his: education! iri>:'France, ; With supplcnYents:irpm, Leipzig and ; Har■yard:;vHe; has,;travelled has" oarn'ed'.the deputation of-a good all-round' jourhali6t.^;He:is^a\ : LiberaL''lmperialistv ft .inomberl'pf, the;; Council ; :q£,thei.Society : . .bf":.Auth6rs/''-and''^was7-kiiigntJKl!';by- : . : the' i King, after :he! had - conducted," ah :Eighty .Club ■expedition :.td. Hungaryiin' lSOC. ■ ; Ini .the.'.same.,year ;he;. conducted.Va , ''searching : inquiry into.ithe'.London, cab;business by . nicansof ,bf the House of,^Commons/; 1 .: and duction ibft'a) taxime.teri ; He' captured';the' .-South '■■Wolyerhampton v:seat', from' '■■'■]■ the : Unionists" -:in'/1900,.' .by : ',i69 ! 'yote's, r and' -In'l9o6;;inqreased:;his' 'majorily:' to': CßG.] - ; V !^ ;

'V:JbpTBAIi,.^nNDS^]TOR^NEW|' : iV :V;--;•■;.;; ;:;.:7?-;:: , ZE^ANI).,; i :;^:; »/;/;% ■ '}- r:: '\C r Melbourne;'/January": 5;;';; v.-; Tie finance , ;'Committee[■:.of, : thq.'Austra-: lian-.-Eootball'.CoHiicU'liasV.made ..the" aiinual- distribution': of its.propaganda fund; allotting Ne\Vi>Zbalarid- ; .£l5O. :-V ; «' : <J! ■' v-v'

I"' ■• : i; >.s';.:; '::■:■ °rMelbourne, s;v ■ ■ '•; The';. State ■.Premier," Mr. ; Murray,.\ha's.. recpiv'edva cablegram .'from'V:the'.'Age'nt.GeneraV.(Sir JoUn Taverner),'.statirig..that' the; steamer':.Caldergrbve,-now,; at, Auck-: laM,/might;lindertake-the for, the. missing, .steamer Wardtah.'.' The ; , probable f,c.st>; would; , ,be ,£2000.j.-,pGr: 'I' month.: 1: '■'A-' definite/ decision/, is '.expected, /to "be come • to to-day.;-;/.::/;. "■:;//.-■ V-;;--' W--"-,:'-■'.''.-■:• , : [The-■;CaUlergrove. 1 ■owned:'by; J. , :Hardie\ and vCo./;:ltd.,; of:; Glasgow, (is .-"a -steel ;■ screw, steamer : of: 4400 • tons,' and was- built; qnlyv-lasfiyearl/at'l'ort ;Glasgow;] v';V J;; :

; : ■" i: ; 'yi'-7 t; viS; :, -'y'; Sydney, January : -The.General'-Ppst ! Office; during. Christ-, ma's week dispatched.4,37s,ooovletters,-'post cards,'and parcels;-;exceeding,;the:■figur.es"-ofthe-preTious'.Christnias week by' 875,000./ ■;^;; ;^r^^;; >' :^i;Sydne'yi-:January';'f :5.-: ; • v;Power,; who, killed "hisVwifev'at iUutinedai,': by: cutting her' throat; and whci'lwas in!, a , : critical .cpnditipn.througli;..similar; ;self-inflicted injuries;, is.recovering: V; : -':- : %