GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

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RUSSIAN: DUMA WANTS AIR-FLEET. mi. l ' r. « s '* P'tersburg, February 6. J.he Defence Committee of tho l)uma recommends the construction of a flotilla of airships, aiid the acceleration: of plans tor dealing with enemies' airships in wartime." 1 - .. .w ■ "■ BIG. FORGERY CHARGE IN THE ART WORLD. _ • >, > London, February 6. Carew Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society of-British Artists, has been remanded on bail at tho Bow. Street Police Court, on a charge of twice forging 'the .sooietyjs treasurer's name, and embezzling *£1500 ip numerous Sums. ■ The prisoner, l who is; prominent ,in .the art ; world, is a grandson of John. Martin (the ; well-known English historical painter and engraver), whose i chief 'works include- "Belshazzar's Feast," < com ploted in 1821, "The Fall of Nineveh". (1833), "The Deluge"- (1837), ."The Last Man" and "The Eve of ■the Deluge" (1840).'. - ;v ' i; -.

FELL 249 FEET INTO WATER AND ■WAS NOT HURT. ' - London, February 6.' A man at the Meadow Colliery, in Staffordshire, pushed a tab into a shaft under the mistaken impression that he was pushing it into the cage at-the top; 'He fell-'with . the', tub' 249 feet 1 into water at the foot of the shaft, and was rescued uninjured. ■'.■■■ i- ' CRICKET. Brisbane, February 7. Victoria defeated Queensland by 352 runs. Victoria, in the first innings, made' 375 (Kenny .151 .and Kortlang 110), and in .the second innings, 276 (Scott 35, Vaughan 32, Kenny not out • 100, : Kyle 44). Queensland,':.;in; -the first : innings, maae 205 (Thomson; 31, ' Hartigan 58, Benbow 33), and in the second innings 91 (Hufccheon 18, Benbow 20). . FEDERAL FINANCE i RESULTS OF HALF-YEAR. Melbourne, February. 7. ■ - The half-yearly statement of the Federal Treasurer, Sir John Forrest, shows' that the total receipts, amounted to. .£7,626,000, and-the expenditure to .£3,685,000. • The States received back ,£3,940,000. ' ■ . FIRE IN ' A ,TOWN. : \ : Melbourne, February 7. : Cust's largo, stoio at Rainbow, in tho north-west of; the State, lias been destroyed by fire. Tho damage . amounts to JE15.000. FROM. OFFICE BOY TO TOP RUNG. . .; (Reo.. February 7, 10.30 p.m.) ■•. , Sydney, ; February 7. Obituary: Mr. Robert B. Cameron,,Secretary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society.; He started as office boy'in the first branch that the eooiety opened in Victoria in 1863. THE LATE SIR F. DABLEY'S-ESTATE. ■ Sydney, February 7. Tho estate of the late . Sir Frederiok Daxley, formerly Ohief Justioe, lma been swom. at J815.929. The whole.is left to ■Lady D.vrley. . '