GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 739, 11 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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INQUIRY-INTO PORT OF LONDON RATES.

-.;".: ;■■;";(EecV February 1 ;10, 9.5 pirn.).'"-■ "v_;.-••■ ;■' ■■:'.' '••• London;. February 10. Lord St. AldwynwilT conduct a Board of Trade inquiry; into: the Port of-Lon-don-schedule .of.rates (published.last Saturday). The inquiry 'will'-open on Feb-, ruary 2-4., -Trade:. associations and '.the Chambers of .', Commerce; will be repre : sonted. :'■'--: '■■.■'■" X: ix,'> "■'■'.■:

THE KING OF; SWEDEN;

'.."- 1 .:. . . Stockholm,' February 10.: ■■;■ King Giistav-.' V' of Sweden, who .was .rbcehtly .operated: on for appendicitis,' is taking liquid nourishment. Ho is still suffering from.; fatigue and his temperature -.'is. 100.'..-'•; ;■■-."■,' ■;'■■•'■■ '.;• .-..

FATAL SLANDrSLIDE.

-..-'.' -■ '.'■',■'.'.-,- :'..„London, February;^.., ..'A slide of five hundred .tons I .of earth; demolished three houses' at .West. Wylam, Tyneside, Northumberland. Three women were 'killed nnd-.nine were injured.: ■:■ -

BRITISH-iNOBLE AND'AMERICAN *-x'\-x :•.■.':■ HEIRESS.: ;.•;."-.; A

'-..':■',,.■•='■ •'.-': •■.'■'•'.': .London,- February .9..: ' During.:the.- coming 'season -'.Viscount ■Maidstonei son arid heir' of the .Earl .of. Winchilsea,' will- marry: Miss 'Margaretta Drexel, daughter of Mr; Anthony Diesel,' the American.:banker., ■ '.-'■''.

GERMAN, SHIPPING PROFITS.

'■.-. : i- ,:.,,' Berlin, -February 9.;, ; The profits of;, tho Hamburg-American Shipping! Company.'. during 1909. amounted to" : , £1,600,000 sterling.;. >' : ; ;.y.„- -V

;THE;LATE ;MR. : L.'.-A.;-'.NATHAN.

■ ;: ... London, February; 9. ; The esta'tp" of-the late Mr. Louis. Arthur Nathan, formerly .of Auckland, and brother of -Mr. ...Walter, Nathan,' of the firm Of Bannatyne. and C 0. ,:: Wellington, has been sworn at £57,966.. '... ..>

; THE CHARLESWORTH CASE.-

.-,'•,'•,- London, February, 9. Violet Charlesworth, who 'was.'-arrested' at; Derby, and charged with defrauding Martha Smith of £600,: and Dr. Edward Jones of large sums, under the assumed, name.of Cameron,,has been remanded to appear at the Old : Bailey. v She and her mother, wlio has also .'been arrested for' fraud, are detained in the Derby prison, being unable to find bail. Their; aliened frauds were committed between 1903 and 1908. - ; .'.'■ :.-;-:;-:': ', ' "'.':'

NORTHERN UNION FOOTBALL.

London,; February,9. .The Northern Football-Union has decided that tho state, of its finances does not warrant its sending a team: to Australia on terms less .than those originally offered. ,

L6RD KITCHENER.

,"-.'.■■■.■' 'Melbourne, February 10. , • Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener has returned here from Tasmania. He will sail for New Zealand in H.M.S. Encounter on Saturday. , (

JAPANESE. CRUISERS 'I' COMING ■ TO ■'AUSTRALIA.

X' Sydney, Fcbmary 10., The Japanese cruisers , Soya and Aso (formerly the Russian cruisers Varyag and Bayan) will visit Australia next month on a training.cruiso for cadets.

MAORIS RETURN FROM SYDNEY.'

■:•: Sydney,'Eebrunry 10:. 'The Maoris whp formed a village here have «etjxrned home by the Maheno,