GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

% Telcirraph-PreßS^flaociatioh-OobT'tlrhV : NEW, HOSPITAL FOR TORONTO.., '.;. ..: '. .". (fiec. April Hi.9.35 p.m.j ', ';■}' ■- ■"".•". '. Ottawa, April 11. The ratepayers-of Toronto, have voted .£50,000 toward a now- general hospital, to cost half; a million. • ■ < -.-..V ■champagne imports increase. '■ "'• London, April 10. The imports of Continental champagne in 1910 increased by 25 per cent, it being feared that Mr. Lloyd-lieorge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, intended augmenting the duties." ,, ■ ' . ' :, '■■' ' ': • FINED FOE KEEPING A BETTING .-. •. /OFFICE..- ■./.-■• . .;■ ■■■■' : . London, April 10. John William-- Andrews was fined JBSO at the Old Bailey for allowing his office in London to be used for betting purposes in connection with a totalisator company at Flushing,. ' .- !■'.- LIEUTENANT-GOVEENOE OF NEW . ! : -;SOUTH WALES. ; : - :•-.-.:.. London, April'lo. The Chief Justice of New South Wales, the Hon. William Portus Cullen, K.C., M:A.; LLJ)., has been gazetted Lieuten-ant-Go vernor'of that State. . SIR GEORGE REID. : London, April 10. . Sir George Eeid, Commonwealth High Commissioner, is the week-end; guest vf Lord Laniingtori, who was from 1595 to 1901 Governor of Queensland. ■,_..':■" AN AGENT-GENERAL. ; ■ . -'.-■' ■■ . ,:; . London, April 10. '. The Agent-General for South Australia, Mr. A. A. Kirkpatrick, was present at the launching of the' Commonwealth destroyer Yarra. . ■ THE KING'S HEALTH. London, April 10. The. Biarritz correspondent , of "The Observer" states that the Kings health is perfectly re-established. THE QUEEN ANjTgENERAL BOOTH. London, April 10. Queen Alexandra sent a letter to General Booth on the occasion of his birthday (he was 81 on April 10).' Her Majesty wished the General every blessing, and hoped he would long be preserved to continue his good • a"nd valuable work in God's service. . : ' : -~-. ■ .' :• - i INVESTIGATION OF CANCEE IN ,-■..■■■■ FISH. - . New York, April 10. President Taft, in a Message, asks Congress for ■an appropriation towards the cost of on investigation into the cause of cancer in fishes, with the hope of throwing light on the disease in human beings, DEATH OF A'MILLIONAIRE. New York, April 10. Mr. Thomas F. Walsh, who was associated with King, Leopold in gold-mining in Colorado, is dead. He leaves ten millions sterling. ■ • ETNA STILL AGGRESSIVE. • Rome, April 10. ' The eruption of Mount Etna continues. One'stream of lava is advanomg ut the rate of thirty feet an hour, and is destroying vegetation. . :. . TO IMPROVE MONTREAL HARBOUE. Ottawa, April 10. It has-been decided to expend i 360,000 sterling on improving the Montreal harbour. A BIPLANE RECORD. Paris, April 10. • At Chalons, M. Kinet a Belgian aeronaut in a Farman biplane, covered 102 miles in 140 minutcs-a record. He carried ono passenger. NOT SMALLPOX. Adelaide, April 11. The suspicious caso on the steamer Omrah is not smallpox, but momngitis. ATTEMPTED DYNAMITING." Brisbane, April 11. An attompt-tho fourth. within eighteen months—was made to dynamite tho fare station at Charters Towers. The damage, was trifling.