GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By TeleßTlDh-Press Association-OoD rriirht J '_ JAPAN SECURES AMERICAN COAL CONTRACT. (Rec. Jane-18, 0.55 a.m.) Sydney, Juno 17. A Japanese coal vendor has secured a contract for 65,000 tons of coal for tho American Navy at Manila. The Japan.' esc tenders ranged from 2s. 6d. to 4s. a. ton below tihe Australian.

KING'S COLONIAL GREYS. (Rec. Juno 17, 10.25 p.m.) London, June 17. King George retains the colonelcy of tho King's Colonial. Greys, with which a ■ number of Canadian, Australian, and South African light horso regiments aro allied. CANADIAN-GERMAN TRADE. London, June 16. Since the consummation of fiscal peaeo between Canada and Germauy several prominent Canadian firms havo opened branches of their business in Berlin, and tentative efforts aro nonbeing mado to organiso a Canadian Exhibition in Berlin. THE WOMEN'S CHARTER. London, Juno 16. At Mrs. Eva M'Laren's instance, tho Women's Liberal Federation, London,, has declined to support her sister-in-law's (Lady M'Laren's) charter, which was embodied in the .House of Commons on March 15 last by her husband (Sir C. B. M'Laren, Liberal member for the Bosworth Division of "West Leicestershire). SOCIALIST KILLS POLICEMAN'. Madrid, June 16. Barranco, a Socialist, assassinated tho chief of police at La Carolina, in the province of Jaeu, Spain. ; >_ AN EXPENSIVE PASTIME. Vienna, June 17. M. Latham, the well-known aviator, privately carried six Hungarian noblemen singly for trips in his aeroplane. They paid him £200. HIGH PRICES IN AUSTRIA. Vienna, June 16. Two thousand proprietors of restaurants assembled in front of the Parliament Buildings in Vienna, and protested' against the cost of provisions rising by 50 per cent. They urged that tho Servian and Rumanian frontiers should lie opened for the importation of cattle, and also asked for tho erection of State cold stores. LAKE COMO TRAGEDY. Rome, June 16. 'Die Italian Government has acceded to President Taft's desire, and ordered divers to search Lake Como for the body of Charlton Porter, husband of the woman whoso body, in a trunk, was found in tho lake. There is a suspicion that both Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Porter were murdered, possibly by burglars. AUSTRALIAN BISHOP IN ROME. Rome, Juno 16. ' Tho Pope gave a private audienco to Bishop Reville, of Bendigq. His Holiness congratulated the. Bishop on his happy recovery from his recent, illness. THOUSAND IMMIGRANTS COMING. Sydney, June 17. A thousand immigrants will land in various centres of Australia, within the next month. BOOT FACTORY BURNED. Melbourne, Juno 17. Tho Exhibition Boot Company's factory at Northcoto was partially destroyed by fire. Tito elamago is estimated at £15,000. Eighty persons have been rendered idle.