GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 744, 17 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Ml Teleerißa—Press ABaociatton-OoDJrieht. , f-i \ / A NAVAL TUG MISSING, iCEec. 'February 16, 945 pm) New York, ?ebrnaiy 16 American warships have vainly searohed Binoe February 6 for the naval tug Tina, from for Boston. There are dirty "aboard. l OIL, FUEL FOE COAL IN NAVT. \ ' LondonT Tebrnary 16 The (r Daily< Express" (which recently (declared that the Admiralty had decided to substitute oil fuel for coftl) states that the -Admiralty, 'instead of ordering 50,000 -tons of oil fuel for the current year, has ordered double that amount \ HO ASSASSINATION SENTENCES. London, February 15 The Korean mniderer of;, Prince Ito, formerly Japanese EesidentrGeneral an Korea, nas been sentenced to death, and , two accomplices to (three years' and eighteen months' respectively. EXHIBITION. , 1 ' London, February 15 ' Mr. Hikojiro Wada, i Japanese Com-missioner-General at the Anglo-Japanese i 'Exhibition, was banqueted at the Hotel ' Cecil. ' p There were four hundred pre sent, including i many peers, members oi the House of Commons, the Lord Mayoi (Sir John Kmll), several Admirals, ind the Japanese Ambassador (Count Kato) The Duke of Norfolk, who presided, warmly welcomed Hr. Wada. BEITISH BUGBT TEAM FOE SOUTB 1 , , AIfBICA. ' London, February 15. , The -Eugby TJjuons of England, Ire land,, Scotland,''and \Wales are ]omtlj Bending a team to South Africa. PEATH OF A LABODE POLITICIAN London, February 15. The death is'announoed of Mr. Peb Curran, formerly Labour MP for Jar row division of Durham, who was de feated at the recent election, aged' 49 □n a three-cornered contest, the lat , i Mr. Curran lost his seat to a Liberal b 67 votes, the figures being. Palmer (Lit r > eral), 4885, Curran (Labour), 4818,Kirkb v (Unionist), 4668. Born (in Glasgow i 1860 of Irish parentage, he was chiefl identified in Labour circles with th Gasworkers'. and General. Labonreri Unions, His membership for Jarrow wo the result of a by-elechoa in 1907, whic all the four,parties contested. Mr Cm ran had made t three previous unsucces. ful attempts to enter the House of Con mons The death \was recently reporte ■>:;-... 'jrfof iMr.VSummer.Wli*' another-'rcjected' Et tpi^ii y-ir'::--;:

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