GENERAL CABLE NEWS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

'/■V-.: ———b. —— . PAPUAN DEVELOPMENT. COMPANY. ../. (Rec:;January; 10, 11.45: p.m/) I ..' ' ■/.'.'•' London, January 10. , ; /The "Daily, Mail" reports that a powerful syndicate,' with. a.capital of .'a million ; half sterling, , and/with' its'.'.headquarters .in; London,'has. been formed, tp open up'll2,ooo-;acres' of :land;'which, has. been leased <fdr"v99'. years from ' the Papuan '".'(New' . Guinea). / Government. ; Lord':' lianfurly/.' is /;, chairman. . V Special; attention 1 . will be paid to cotton-growing. . The, syndicate has also secured leases of gold-dredging areas. ■ /'//' : 'i'' '.'/ OBITUARY. , . London, January 9. Mr. Charles 'Waters, founder of tlie In- . 1 ternational Bible-reading Association, /'is;, dead. ; ./.';/'. ; r Y//. // . [Mr. Waters was hon. secretary as well, ■ as founder of /the' International.- Bible- ■ reading-Association,: which had its incop-J tion. in, 1882;:' Its:object -is; the encourage-/ ment of daily Biblo. reading.-; ',-It 1 provides 'a- courseof • readings. •on - subjects - -winch cover- tho prineipal paxta, of the Old and New: Testament in ax years. The ■members .are supplied,- withbrief / notes; : upon each day's reading.' The'; year i 1907 : closed /with;,a . registered . membership:- of ; 950,000,'\ indicating an average yearly increase of over-36,000 members. TJieso fig-: ures refer only -to the':.English-speaking ,;members,'but the. list' of/!readings is issued :iri more .than/ .thirty'foreigni'langua'ges./ Each /memberpays., an *ainual • subscription; of. onei'perinyj .unless' tlie, .papers have:to be' sent iby .post,' and this . meets the '.needs of. the -.working expenses.' of . the association;/ Th?re are; more than/ ■13,000 branch :and, f district- secretaries .in; 'all, parts of the, iy;orld, arid iibcrat IOjOOO,'000 papers of various, kinds were sent out; during 1907. /The! association has. a quarterly publication, /"The i 1.8 ;R. A./ Messen-. •ger. s '] ;' :: : ,-jk//;/;y PROSPEROUS 1 CANDIDA—IN CBEA SE :;.' ■/; IN REVENUE.. ,-; : ' / Ottawa, January 9. :-//The Canadian revenue'for the. last nine .months (to -'. December,:3l)- shows/an , ,in- : . crease of- eleven million dollars (over two .millions :sterling)i .as/ compared with the same period of 1908. ;</:/. A ■/■ TYPHOID. IN MONTREAL. ■ Ottawa. January 9. Owing to/ the, apathy of the Mumcipal- : ity of Montreal -with; regard 'to the typhoid. -epidemic (which was:recently reported to ; have ,reached: 3000 - cases, and, to be"far.beyond the capacity of. the hospitals);/the, citizens. have now organised an. emergency hospital. .: - Lord,* Strathtona,: •- Canadian High Commissioner, in /London, has given ■JE5000; towards /the - hospital,/ and has. pro-/ mised -. to a sanitation..: fund.:'/ , :' MALARIA IN JAVA.. -. ' .. Batavia, January 9. Five hundred deaths: have resulted froiri malaria: on the'plantations near Batavia. SWIMMING. - . '... - Sydney, January 10. 'Hardwick won the State, mile swimming , championship in 25 minutes 32 1-5 seconds. [Hardwick also..won, the' lialf-mile.- Ci .Healy , just / beat/Hardwick- in the ICO yards.] 1: / -;/-//' V'/ : v /:: /' /" MISSED THE NEW ZEALAND /. BOAT. /-- " Sydney, /January- >'10. ;. '.About eighty New-Zealand;passengers .tiy, the Orient liner Oryieto, aro. detained in.Sydney-owing,to the liner arriving, too - late' to connect with ■ the; : Saturday: ■tfearner for New Zealand.., 1 - :/ ;/ ,;'■ .:/ , ' ,'■V; // INTER-STATE CRICKET. .. . : : '/'- - Sydney, January 10. - The, . inter-State : cricket match;.; South ■ Australia/v. New South"Wales; 'iri which the-latter' scored ; 92 in- 'their first-in-, nings, was continued to-day. .; South Australia's , first innings; was concluded for 207, the: chief,/additional -scorers being;. Whitty 34, and Wright..2B._/ .New South' Wales,: in "their . second ' innings, ;scored 289, the/.chiof Scorers being:/ Diamond 30, Keilaway loß,'Emery 30,' Stack .18, and Minnett 37. .//..'. ■ ;.■/./.