GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
FRAUDULENT MERCHANT ' PUNISHED. '
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LONDON, Jan. 14,
Under tho Prevention of Corruption Act, Samuel Harris, a general merchant, in, London, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for offering the clor'k of a Collecting firm money to declare that goods from Germany were below their real value.
PEER MARRIES AMERICAN GIIIL
] Earl Granard’s wedding to Beaj trice, daughter of Mr. Ogdon Mills,. { to-day, was an event in Now York. § The presents are estimated at £IOO,- \ 000.
A PROPHET OBTAINS DAMAGES
! The Rev. Mr. Baxter, prophetic | editor of the ‘‘Christian Herald,” ob- | tallied £SOO damages for libel from i the newspaper “Mint,” for describing t him as a charlatan.
FRENCH PATENT LAWS
PARIS, Jan. 14
France is legislating on . patent laws, on tho lines of Mr. Lloyd George’s Act. ,
THE SCHOOLBOY SUICIDE
MELBOURNE, Jan. 15
Evidence points to the boy Bridge, who was decapitated by a train, having committed suicide, owing to a quarrel with his sister.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 5
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161GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 5
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