GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2423, 11 February 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

HONORING A WAR COR RESPONDENT. United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Feb. 9. To-day Field-Marshal Wood unveils in the crypt at St. Paul’s Cathedral MackennaPs marble bust of the late Sir William Howard Russell surmounting an inscribed tablet. The subscriptions totalled £500.. [Sir W. Howard Russell acted as correspondent for the “Times” in many wars, from the Crimean war. in 1854-6, to the Egyptian campaign in ISS2.] AMERICAN NAVAL CAPTAIN REDUCED. Captain E. T. Qualtrough, of the United States battleship Georgia, was tried at Gibraltar and suspended from command of the ship for six months and placed in a reduced position on the promotion list on a charge of drunkenness. MAGNIFICENT REQUESTS. Mi'. J. Sliiploy, solicitor, has bequeathed £IOO,OOO to Newcastle charities, besides 2500 pictures, including many wotks of old masters, and £30,000 for the enlargement of the Art Gallery. ENGAGEMENT li\ HIGH LIFE. The engagement is announced of Lord Dalmeny, son of Lord Rosebery, with Dorothy, a daughter of Lord Henry Grosvcnor. [Lord Dalmeny, who is 27 years of age, represents Edinburghshire in the House of Commons.] THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND DIVORCE. The Archbishop of Canterbury ordered the vicar of Charing, Kent, not to refuse communion to a married couple on the ground that the woman had innocently divorced her husband. THE KING OF ABYSSINIA. . King Menclik’s condition has improved. He is now engaged on a motor tour. DEATH OF A FRENCH ACTOR. PARIS, Feb. 9. The death, is announced of Ernest Alexandra Honore Coqueliu. He died in an asylum from melancholia. [Ernest Coquelin, Coqueliu Cadet, ivas brother of the famous- actor Benoit Coqueliu] whose death was recently announced. Coquelin Cadet was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire 42 years 'ago.] EGYPTIAN IRRIGATION. CAIRO, Feb. 9. The Khedive has decided to open the Esnoli barrage, thus saving the province of Keneli from drought. [The Esnoli barrage of the Nile has been constructed at a cost of a • million sterling, for the special benefit of the Province of Koiich. which was less benefited than other districts by the great works at Assouan and Assume] A GIGANTIC AMERICAN BATTLE- - SHIP. NEW, YORK, Feb. 9. The American battleship Delaware, 20,000 tons, has been launched.