GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
By TsloerspU—Presn Asiodatiou^OooyrldS" (Rec. April' 27, 11.30 p.m.), _ Telieran, April 27. . H.M. cruiser Philomel captured off Jask (in the Arabiau Sea, and a centre of the gun-running traffic) 2000 rifles and a quarter of a million cartridge's.
A WILLIAM PENN RELIC. r _ London, April 26. William , Blathwayt's correspondence was sold by auction at Sotheby's. It realised £8850, The correspondence included William Penn'a draft of the Pennsylvania grant.
: STATUE TO GAINSBOROUGH. r London, April 26. Mr. Bertram M'Kennal, the Australia soulptor, has been commissioned to execute a national statue of Thomas Gainsborough (the famous English artist who painted the Duchess of Devonshire and many other portraits and pictures). The statue will be erected at Sudbury, Suffolk, whom Gainst borough was born in 1727.
; TYPHOID IN THE JUG. Melbourne, April 27. Ninety-two cases of typhoid have been traced to one Fitzroy milk depot.
MELBOURNE TIMBER STRIKE. Melbourne, 1 April 27; The timber merchants have declined the timber sorters' proposals for a settlement of the Btrike.
HOULDER, FLEET INCREASES. • Sydney, April 27. Advicos have been 1 received that Hqulder Bros., are. doubling the size of their fleet for the Australasian service: A contract has been signod for ten new 10,000-ton steamers. '
DROUGHT BROKEN TOO LATE'. Hobart, April 27. The protracted drought has broken, but the rain has como too lata in many parts for the Boason's ploughing and sowing. ■■•■■■■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 7
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229GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 7
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