GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2391, 5 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

A PENSION DECLINED

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LONDON, Dec. 31

Admiral Sir Nathaniel JJowdenSmith, who was commander on the Australian station from 1902 to 1905, and wlio lias recently retired, has declined a good service pension of £3OO a year. The pension lias now been awarded to Admiral Sir William Kennedy.

IMMIGRANTS FOR QUEENSLAND

Three hundred assisted immigrants left England for Queensland during December, including 45 /indentured Scottish farm hands.

TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFIC—A FALLING OFF.

LONDON, Jan. 3

The trans-Atlantic traffic shows a shrinkage of a •million persons compared with 1907.

A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE

E. 'Couch, a Newmarket trainer, though he had arranged to return to Perth on December 29th with a consignment of thoroughbreds for stock purposes, disappeared some days ago.

THE KAISER —EMERGED FROM SECLUSION..

BERLIN, Jan. 3

The Kaiser lias emerged from his seclusion. He gave the usual New Year’s reception at Berlin.

SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES

PRETORIA, Jan. 3

The dividends from the South African gold mines''and other companies last year were £13.070.442. ,

NEW SOUTH WALES STATISTICS SYDNEY, Jan. 1.

Insolvencies in New South Wales last year totalled 356, the liabilities being £322,850 and the assets £185,500. The State’s imports for the year were valued at £37,000,000. a decrease of £1,956,000, as compared with 'the previous year. Exports totalled - £27,500,000, a decrease of £5,394,000. The State revenue for the half-year shows a comparative decrease of £454,000, while that of Victoria discloses a decrease of £323,000.

A BILLIARD RECORD. Gray, a youthful billiard champion, beat his oivn Avorld’s record for losing hazards on a standard table, by a break of 395 points, of Avhicli 393 came off the red. WHITE PINE IN AUSTRALIA. At a conference of sawmillcrs qeslorday, complaints were mad© that New Zealand Avhito pine, imported ostensibly for butter boxes, Avas largely used for other purposes. It Avas decided to ask the Federal Parliament to prcA-enb the possible evasion of the Customs duty. DEATH OF A POLITICIAN. - MELBOURNE, Jan. 4, DaA-id Gaunson, once quoin incut in political life in tlie State, is dead. THE BRAYBROOK RAILWAY DISASTER. The total paid by the Railway Commissioners for the settlement of claims folloAving on the Braybrook disaster, is about £124,000) A CONSTABLE SHOT. ADELAIDE, Jan. 4. While attempting to arrest suspicious characters, Constable Hall Avas shot in the jaAV. His” recovery is hopeless. His assailant escaped. LONG BOAT BEATS DORANDO. (Received Jan. 5, 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Long Boat, the Canadian Indian, Avon the 25 miles race fit Buffalo. Dorando collapsed, and relinquished on the nineteenth mile. THE AMERICAN FLEET. (Received, January 5, 12.30 a.m.) ; SUEZ, Jan. 4. ■ Admiral Sperry’s fleet has arrived at Suez. - . • , HEAVY RAIN IN VICTORIA—CRICKET M ATCH POSTPONED. f - - MELBOURNE,'Jan. 4. The cricket match has. been postponed owing to tlie heavy rain.