GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2397, 12 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

A BRITISH AEROPLANE

United Press Association. Copyright

LONDON. Jan. 10

Colonel S. F. Cody, aboard a British army aeroplane, flew 100 yards at a height of ten feet at Farnborough.

ROBBERY FROM A RAILWAY STATION.

PARIS, Jan. 1U

A bag containing fifteen parcels of securities valued at over £40,000, has been stolen from the railway station at Paris.

NIGHTRIDBRS’ SENTENCES. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Six American nightriders have been sentenced to be hanged on February 19. Two have been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. *•

EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO. MEXICO, Jan. 10

The entire, west coast of Mexico lias been shaken by an earthquake. The damages are trivial.

CONFISCATING THE SHAH’S PROPERTY. TEHERAN, Jan. 10. Sata Chan has ordered tlic confiscation of all the Sliali’s property in the province of Afbaijan.

DEATHS AT SI?A. SYDNEY, Jan. 11

The schooner Eugenie, from the Solomon Islands,, has reached Cape Hawke. Captain Gordon died from malarial fever. The mate, Anderson, the only other white man aboard, succumbed to fever and the effects oJ: a very rough passage after going on. The crew of Islanders was untouched by fever.

EARL DERBY—CONVERTED TO

TARIFF REFORM

(Received Jan. 11, 9.56 p.in.)

LONDON, Jan. 11

Earl Derby, speaking at Blackburn, avowed himself a tariff reformer, believing that tlio country must accept big fiscal reforms in order to draw closer the ties with the colonies. DALGETY AND CO—NEW CAPITAL.

In regard .to Dalgety and Co. issuing new capital, the “Times’’ remarks that it is va .fair investment, but the dividend's, will not" be cumulative.

MR BALFOUR—RECOVERING ~

FROM SICKNESS. *

(Received Jan. 11, 11.17 pun.) , ( ; LONDON, Jan. 11.'

The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour is recovering from >a feverish attack, and proceeds to Biarritz.