GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 817, 14 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Tcle?rai>h—Press Association—OoDyrirtt , -4 AVIATION MEETING. CRec. May 13, 9.35 p.m.) Now York, May 13. The Aoro Club of America will hold an international aviation meeting at Hemstead Plains, Long Island, on October 2. DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. London, May 13. The "Star" Newspapor Company has been ordered to pay the Elecfcrophoto Company, whose business is the enlargement of photographs, £1500 damages for describing it as "a flat trap." FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. London, May 13. King George telegraphed his congratulations to Miss Florence Nightingale, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. [Miss Florence Nightingale, for her services to tho wounded in' the Crimea, received a testimonial. of >£50,000, which 6he devoted to the founding of tho Nightingale Homo for the Training of Nurses. Besides initiating tho modern system of training nurses, she has done much, to reform sanitation, especially in tho army and India. She was given the Freedom of the City of London in 1908.] "OLD CHINA CASE: QUASHING OF CONVICTION. London, May 12. Arthur Ellis—a Bond Street dealer, against whom both civil and criminal proceedings were taken on account of certain china, alleged to have been sold by him at high prices, by means of false representations, to the lato Charles Dickens, an octogenarian collector— appealed to the Court' of Criminal Appeal against his conviction for fraudulent misrepresentation. ' The Court quashed the conviction. | A NEW STEAMER. London, May 12. The Eastern and Australian Steamship Company's new steamer St. Albans has been launched at Belfast. MARINE FIBROUS DEPOSITS. London, May 12. The Marine Fibres and Yarns Company, with a capital of £400,000, is issuing £100,000 worth- of shares. The company will work the fibrous deposits in Spencer's and St. Vincent's Gulfs, South Australia. AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN ■ VIENNA. Vienna, May' 12. An earthquake shook, travelling from north to south, . and lasting four minutes, was experienced in Vienna yesterday evening. EXPLOSION WRECKS A DREDGE. Sydney, May 13. Tho boilor of a dredge portable blew up, wrecking the vessel, which is now partially submerged at of Lako Macquarie. The ashore at tho tdmo of the explosion. NEW ZEALAND WHITE PINE. Sydney, May 13. Messrs. E. D. 'Piko and Co., Ltd., havD secured the contract for the carriage from New Zealand of eighteen million feet of white pino for tho recentlyformed co-operative butter : box factory company. Tho contract, provides that six million feet shall be delivered in Sydney annually. Messrs. Pike and" Co. are arranging to increase their present fleet of vessels.

A DISHONEST CITY. . Sydney, May 13. During the lioaring of a ease at the quatrer sessions, the Crown Prosecutor declared that Sydney appeared to bo honeycombed with dishonesty. Ho feared tlint if n comparison were mado it would occupy an unenviable position among Australian cities. COPPER ORB DISCOVERED. . Melbourne, May 13. > An important discovery of copper oro in tho vicinity of the Stato coal-mine on l'owlett River is reported. <