YESTERDAY’S CABLES.
Lord Gurzon and Sir 11. Campbell Bannerman arc candidates for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University.
Tlio present Lord Rector is the Right Hon. H. H. -Asquith, K.C., Chancellor of tlio Exchequer. The contest will have additional interest owing to the attitude recently adopted by the Government towards Lord Curzon.
The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,130,000 quarters; for the Continent 1,140,000 quarters. Atlantic shipments are 355,000 quarters, and Pacific shipments 240,000 quarters. Rose Robinson, a- fashionably-at-tired woman of 30 years of age, was' charged in .London with fraud in impersonating the Countess of Sott-en-ham. The countess testified that Robinson had masqueraded in her name in Melbourne. (She had been annoyed for years by Australians calling, who claimed acquaintance. She believed that- Robinson was once a Airs Cottenham, but divorced from her husband. The second officer of tlio wrecked ship Hartfieki, named Martin, firstshipped in Sydney. The wife and. family of Captain Sanderson (not Anderson as previously cabled) are safe at Liverpool . The State Banking Department’s report shows a decrease of £2.4400,000 in the resources of trust companies in New York between the 22nd August and 19th of December. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, during a visit .to Paris, had a short interview with M. Clemencean, the Premier,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2094, 21 January 1908, Page 1
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214YESTERDAY’S CABLES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2094, 21 January 1908, Page 1
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