GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By TeleßraDh-Preaa-^sootaUon-OooyriKht ■ ; OBITUABT. ~;■'_■ ' ■' 30,. 10.10 pjtu). - ; ..v ;; ! - ■ ' London, March SO. The death is announced of Alexander , Agassiz, American zoologist and geologist;' [Born at Nenchafel, ' Switzerlandi '- on .December 17,.: 1835, Alexander ~;Agassiz went to ,the United: States at tho age of eleven, -and from 1874' till ,1898 -was director and curator of the "Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard UniverMassachusetts. His investigations in marine zoology were very extensive, and he assisted in tho examination and'classification- of the collections of the "'Challenger." Deceased's father was- the celebrated Swiss-American naturalist,' 'Jean Louis Eodolphe; Agassiz, geologist and icthyologist.]' ■■ ■ ■■'■•. '■', '■■■"■ KILLED;' WHILE MOUNTAINEEEING. ■'',;■'-»■' '■''■'• : London, 1 Maroh 30. Mr. Lennard Salt, son of a Burton brewer, was killed, while climbing Snowdon. He led a.roped party of-five. His end of the rope broke and he; fell. 200 feet. ', ■ ..■ ■ .'■■''■•-'-■■ ■ ' :•■-■:.-

X THE LOODIANA. ■/'"" , ,V London, March 29. ■ ._ Advices received yesterday: from tie' Seychelles state that a steamer from "the islands reports' no eign of , the -■ steamer Loodiana atCosmoledo. ; ■■/■,: fThe British-India- SteamANorigation Company's . steamer.. Loodiana; 'missing since January, was recently;reported to be ashore at;Cosmoledo Island.' She , oar-. rded 10 European and 70 other passengers, and cargo valued at..£63,000.]'•■- '■':•: STAGE -MURDER.. V :- : r'-\'< ; ' ... ....-.,.".. , London, March '.-%).■.- .-. A man named Jesshope,- - a' former employee of. the Empire Theatre, Camberwell; stabbed. Healey, a stage, carpenter, to death after last night's performance.:.; LIQUOR'aND ."HJN"-A "TRADE" ;.-'.., ■ VIEW.. , . . .-.-

■;• . • Sydney; March 30. The president of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, addressing the annual oonfeience,: stated,that prohibition had wiped out happiness and comfort in Canada ond New Zealand. In the latter country the tourist traffio had fallen off by 60 per: cent. Tourists -'((sUd not have fun when they could not'get'liquor. . . UNEXPLAINED EXPLOSION. , '■■: : .Sydney, March 30. ■■■. A' bakery at Broken Hill:.waa wrecked by. a mysterious explosion. Wright, £he proprietor,; and. his eon eeverely.\injured.;.;: ;' . ■'.• ■ : ' ■■.■;'... •'■■■■.' '■'.; '. - .:■,;; . DIED PEOMSTNCQPE.'..;,.,.: ■..'■'■ Melbourne, March 30.' Mr. Murley, a passenger on the Mongolia, from Auckland, died aboard the vessel,.the cause being syncope. SMALL-POX.. ■ ■■'".: Melbourne, March 30. A eecond-class passenger aboard, the steamer Otway, bound to : New Zealand from England, is under observation by the, health offioers. Another third-class passenger, in quarantine at Premantle, has developed small-poi in a modified form. . • :