GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 850, 23 June 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Br Telecrapn—Press Association— Ooijyrisht _Jo REGENCY BILL. t (Bee."Juno 22, 9.25 p.m.) London, June 22. The Regency Bill, appointing Queen Mary Regent in', the event of King George's death before the Duke of Cornwall (the Heir-Apparent) reaches tho ago of eighteen, has been .read a second time in the House of Commons. NEW MEDALS. London, June 22. Mr. Bertram Mackennal, tho Australian sculptor who is to design the coronation medal and the new coinage, will also design a new series of naval, military, and civil service medals. CORRUPTION IN NEW YORK. - New York, June 22. ■ Governor Hughes, of New York, in opening the special session of tho State Legislature, recommended a more sweeping investigation of legislative corruption than that of 1909. AUSTRALIAN BISLEY TEAM. London, June 22. King George will to-day inspect the Australian Bisley team at Marlborough House..

RAILWAY DECENTRALISATION. Sydney, June 22. The New South Wales Government has appointed Mr. R. R. Hickson (president of the Sydney Harbour Trust), Mr. C. M. Oliver (ex-Railway Commissioner), Mr. O'Malley, and Mr. Wood (Colonial Secretary) a Royal Commission to report on the question of railway decentralisation. CROWD BURNS A NEGRO.. New York, June 21. A negro murdered a white woman at Rusk, in Texas. He was tortured uutil he confessed his guilt, and was then burned to death. MURDER CHARGE. London, June 21. Frederick George Beeton, a - railway clerk, who.in April last ivas arrested and charged with tho murder of an infant of which he was tho father, was tried to-day. i Ho was found not guilty of murder, but was sentenced, to. nine months' imprisonment for having buried tho child without notifying the coroner. It was proved that the death was due to accidental suffocation. OBITUARY. London, Juno 21. The Rev. H. Grattan Guinness, D.D., F.H.A.S., F.R.G.S., tho well-known Nonconformist clergyman, is dead, aged 75. [Dr. Guinness was the founder and director of the Regions Beyond Missipnory Union, which has Ho training colleges, supports nearly 1000 missionaries in the Congo region, Behar, India, the Argentine and Pom, and has sent out over a thousand missionaries. Among his publications are "The Approaching End ,ofthe Age Wowed in tho Light of History, Prophecy, and Science," "Light for the Last Days," "Romanism and the Reformation," and "The Divine Programme of the World's History.''] <

BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION.

London, June 21

Mr. Licht, the well-known authority on beet sugar, estimates that up'to the present the production of 'sugar (amounting last year to 11,600,000 tons) has decreased by 203,000 tons, and that the total decrease for tho season will be 332,000 tons.

EX-NEW ZEALANDER'S ESTATE. , Sydney, Juno 22. The Bankruptcy Court adjudged certain land at Thornlcigh, the property of William Francis Grcenaway, formerly of Dannevirko, to bo the property of the Official Assignee in Greenaway's estate, and divisible amongst his-credi-tors.

NEWCASTLE, STRIKERS RESUME WORK. Sydney, June 22. The strikers at Pelawmain Colliery, Newcastle:, who came out yesterday in consequence of a dispute over working conditions, woro to resume work this morning. The settlement of tho trouble is being left in tho hands of tho lodge officers. BANK MANAGER ON TRIAL. Adelaide, Juno 22. Eyre, late manager of tho Kapunda branch of the Bank of Adelaido, has boon committed for trial on -a charge of embezzling £1060, tho property of tho bank.