GENERAL SABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2434, 24 February 1909, Page 5

GENERAL SABLE NEWS.

A NEW P. AND 0. STEAMER. United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Feb. 22. The Peninsula and Oriental Company’s steamer Mantua lias been launched from Laird’s yard. # (Received Feb. 23, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. The barque Beechdale, bound in ballast, from Delagoa for Newcastle, has been wrecked near Limpopo. One fatality occurred. DEATH OF A NEW ZEALAND WAR VETERAN. SYDNEY, Feb. 23. Mr. E. G. Blackmoro, formerly clerk to the Commonwealth' Parliament, is dead. He saw service in the New Zealand'war. A ROYAL COMMISSION.

MELBOURNE, Feb. 23. The State Cabinet will appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into charges against Sir Thomas Bent, in connection with land transactions while he was Premier. A WRECK ABANDONED. The wreck of the Lady Mildred has been abandoned. POPULATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, Feb. 23. The population on December 31st was 407,180. A CINEMATOGRAPH CATASTROPHE. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 23. The ignition of a cinematograph apparatus caused a panic in an audience at Tula, and 14 persons were killed. RUSSIA. Vast snow-drifts stopped traffic between Ivieff and Odessa. LAUNCH OF A BATTLESHIP. LONDON, Fob. 23. Mrs. McKenna, wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty, launched the battleship Vanguard at Barrow. [The Vanguard is of 19,250 tons.]

THE DEFAULTING BRIDEGROOM. A FURTHER CHARGE. Duncan Johnstone, who was arrested- on his honeymoon trip, was again remanded. He is further charged with uttering a forged endorsement on a cheque for £550. THE WELCOME TO SPERRY’S FLEET. (Received Feb. 24, 12.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Thirty thousand people welcomed Admiral Sperry’s fleet, which President Roosevelt reviewed. (Received Feb. 24, 12.50 a.m.) THE METHODIST CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, Feb. 23. The Rev. J. Beale has been elected President of the Methodist Conference .