GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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BOMB-MAKERS ARRESTED. (Rec, June 6, 10.45 p.m.) ', Tokio, June 6. Eight Japanese, including, a woman, iave been arrested here for manufacturing bombs. •LORD SELBORNE'S RETURN HOME. London, Juno 5. Lord Solborne, late High Commissioner for South Africa, was accorded a civic welcome on his arrival at Southampton. In a speech he paid a glowing tribute to King Edward's powerful influence throughout South Africa, an influence which was tho main factor in bringing about the Union. , AVIATION CARNIVAL. ' London, June C. The international ■ aviation carnival ■will he .held at Blackpool from July 28 tQI August' 20. Prizes worth ,£4OOO have been provided. THE PLUVIOSE. Paris, June 5. The French submersible Pluviose, which sank in the Channel after a collision with'the steamer Pas de Calais— -with the loss of the submersible's whole complement of 27—was fixed by eight chains to pontoons, and tugged inshore. TO STUDY BRITISH TEACHING METHODS. London, June 5. • Two hundred teachers from Russia and 150 from Manitoba (Canada) will shortly ■visit Britain to study British teaching methods. ', SAVING INFANT LIFE.. London, June 5. Lord Robert Cecil, ex-M.P., speaking at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, said- that before 1900 the infantile, mortality was 134 per thousand, but that since the special pretention scheme had been in existence the (rate had fallen to 102 per thousand. Huddersfield's example had been widely followed, and had resulted in the saving of 35,000 lives. A HORSE TRAINER'S CRIME. London, June 5. W. A. MTvie, a horso trainer at East Dsley, Berkshire, ..was sentenced to two .months' imprisonment for maliciously phooting a two-year-old Sainfoiil colt, £fter a dispute with his partner. MURDERS BY SWISS SHEPHERDS. Paris, June 5. Two young Swiss shepherds, named .Jacquiard (aged seventeen) and Vienny ,'(aged fifteen), brutally murdered five peasants on a lonely farm, using revolvers and a hatchet. The murderers wore sentenced at Auxerre—Jacquiard to death, pnd Vienny to twenty years' penal servitude. LAW NOT INFRINGED; Melbourne, June G. The Commonwealth Postmaster-General sought to obtain an injunction to restrain a firm of publishers from publishing private telephone lists. The High Court dismissed the application, holding that the private publishing of the lists Has not an infringement of tho law. CAPTAIN DISAPPEARS AT SEA. Perth, Junt 6. During the voyage of the steamer Strathlynes (? Strathlyon) from Baltimore, Captain Gunn mysteriously disappeared on May 28. NEW GUINEA DEVELOPMENT. Melbourne, June 0. The expenditure on Papua (New Guinea) for the last nine months totalled £41,040, and tho receipts .£42,700, an increase under both heads of .£7OOO compared with the corresponding period of last year. OBITUARY. Sydney, June C. The- Hon. J. N. Brunkeiya Legislative Councillor, and who was thirty years in Parliament, is dead, aged 78. He served in the Parkes-Kcid Administration. I Deceased was a native of New South Wale-, having l»cn born at Newcastle on April 22, 1532. According to "Johns's Kctable Australians," ho was a member of the State Assembly for East Maitland for 24 years, until 1901. His Ministerial work was as Secretary for Lands ami later as Chief Secretary for Lands (I£9l-9!I). lie was a member of (lie National Convention which framed the Commonwealth Constitution (1897-98), and was -a director of the Mutual Life (Association of Australia."! N.S.W. WEATHER. Sydney, June (1. Tho weather is very cold and stormy. Twelve inches of snow fell at Delegate, ■814 miles south of Sydney. It is the 'feeavicst fall recorded in the district.