GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2436, 26 February 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

EDUCATION IN LONDON. United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Feb. 25. The London Education Committee propose, to spend nearly a million pounds during twelve months on 'elementary and secondary schools. BRITISH TREASURY ROBBED., A sum of £2500 in notes and gold has been stolen from the Treasury. A DEFAULTER SENTENCED. Vermer, secretary of the Ponge Building Society, has been sentenced to six years for defalcations amounting to £20,000. THE ARMY COUNCIL. - The Army Council were entertained at a dinner at the Ritz Hotel, Air. Haldane, Secretary for War, preside ing. _ V ■ a ■ GERMAN-AMERICAN PATENT AGREEMENT. ' . • NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Mj\ Bacon, Assistant Secretary of State, and Herr Bernestorff, German Ambassador, have signed a- GermanAmerican patent agreement, making it unnecessary for inventors in one country to erect factories in the other. - - . A HEAVY FINE. The Supreme Court upheld the line of £21.600 on the New York Central . i Railway Company, for granting rebates to the American Refining Company. GERMAN NEW GUINEA.—A SUBSIDY. (Received Feb. 25, 10.35 p.m.) BERLIN, Feb. 25. A Bill to increase the North German Lloyds’ subsidy for the New Guinea service to £25,000 has been read a third time in. the Reichstag. TRAIN HURLED OVER A CLIFF. TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS. ' QUITO, Feb. 25. A train, derailed .at Riobamba, Ecuador., was hurled a hundred? feet over a cliff. Twenty-five persons were ■killed and' forty injured. RESIGNATION OF THE FINNISH SENATE. , > S’P. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25. The Finnish Senate lias resigned. [The Czar recently dissolved the Finnish Diet, for insisting on freedom of speech. when addressing the throne.]