GENERAL GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2267, 12 August 1908, Page 3

GENERAL GABLES.

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LONDON, A letter has been r the Olympic Council Australian the British public and kindwhich leaves Engthe most pleasant recollections, and will always testily to the Sportsmanlike qualities- of the British Pe General Booth has started on a two months/ tour in South Africa. Two new White Star liners are in course of construction. They will he 860 feet long, and a tonnage of between 45,000 and 50,000. The speed will bo 19 to 20 knots. . The German training ship Ireya ran down the fishing schooner Maggie May in a dense fog on the Newfoundland Banks. INine of the Maggie’s crew were drowned. Obituary: Robert Watson, the oldest master of fox hounds m the United Kingdom, a brother of George Watson, master of the Melbourne hounds. .... , • A gigantic hotel is bemg built in the Strand on the site of Exeter Hall, for which 20 Australian-made pianos have been purchased at the FrancoAnglo Exhibition. i(Received August 11, 11.10 p.m.) . The Archbishop of Canterbury states that £125,000 out of £345,000, constituting the Pan-Anglican Conference thanksgiving offering, .has already been allotted to specific objects as requested by the donors. .in disuniting the balance for clerical education, the needs of North-west Canada and parts of Australasia and the South Seas will be borne in mnit The Grand Cross of St. Michael ■and St. George has been conferred on Sir Francis Hopwood, Undei -secretary for the Colonies. BLOEMFONTEIN, August 10. The Orangia Assembly deleted from the Estimates nensious to officials. or • tlio old Free State, including the 'PETERSBURG, August 10. The Hofienlofie- Wittgenstein estates, at Vilna, have been sold, owing to the Russian decree that the owners must become Russian subjects or sell. The owners offered the estates to the Government i for f The Goveriunent valuer estimated then \alue at £150,000. The estates were sold privately for £430,000 The <gate came into possession ol the nohen fobo family about 1848 through the marriage of Prance Hohenloho with the Princess of Say.n-M lttgcnstem. VIENNA, August 10.. As a military, precaution, Austna has prohibited live pigeons enteri g tlio. Empire without permission ol tin "'hls'Majesty King Edward left, for ICronherg, where the Kaiser armed afterwards, and proceeds to Isold. & i Charles Hardingo accompanies tlic King. ___