GENERAL CABLE HEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2417, 4 February 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE HEWS.

SLIGHT EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS

United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Feb. 2- ' Continuous slight earthquake shocks liavo occurred at Sakhalin for several days. Three shocks wore also felt at Montreal. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. Colonel Hoad, Commonwealth commandant, was granted a special private audience with King Edward, and discussed tho subject of the Australian forces. DEATH OF LORD BURTON. Obituary: Lord Burton, after an internal operation. [Lord Burton (formerly Sir Michael Arthur Bass) was born in 1837. He was a director of Bass and Co. and of the South-Eastern Railway Company. Ho was a member of the House of Commons from 1868 to 1886, and was created Baron Burton in the latter year.]

MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS. The late James Duncan, of Alyth, Scotland, bequeathed £60,000 to found a school of industrial art at Dundee. An anonymous lady has presented the Royal Institution with £IO,OOO, unconditionally. [The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 for the promotion of scientific and literary research.] A GERMAN ARMY SCANDAL. BERLIN, Feb. 2. Lieutenant von Stuckrad eloped with the wife of his comrade, Captain von Vertzen. Subsequently a duel was fought at Frankfurt, and Lieutenant von Stuckrad was fatally shot. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT. ROME, Feb. 2. A boat capsized at Lecoo, Lake Como. Seventeen women and two men were drowned.

THE NEW SOUTH WALES AGENTGENERAL. SYDNEY, Feb. 3. Mr. Coghlan’s term as Agent-Gen-eral has been extended for twelve months. STRIKE OF IRONWORKERS. MELBOURNE, Feb. 3. ,Two hundred and - fifty members of tlie Victorian Ironworkers and Boilermakers’ Assistants’ Society struck against the old rates of pay. A WEST AUSTRALIAN LOAN. (Received Feb.- 3, 6.30 p.m.)

PERTH, Feb. 3. The Treasurer has introduced a Loan Bffl for £1.445.000, to meet expenditure on public AA-orks till March, 1910. DLX IZFLU’S TRIAL. (Received Feb. 4, 12.40 a.m.) DURBAN,. Feb. 3. Diiiizulu has completed his evidence. He was in the AA-itness box for eleven successive days. DEATH OF A LORD OF APPEAL. Baron Robertson, a Lord of Appeal, is dead. [Baron Robertson Avas born in 1845 and had been a Lord of Appeal since 1899.]