GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2442, 5 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

OABLE NEWS

1 EARTHQUAKE IN, PALESTINE. United Press Association. Copyrighi .I,'. > LOnjjuiN, March 3. Advices from Smyrna state tliat an 1 earthquake destroyed Masran, t; near [■Jerusalem, burying 150 people. \ RESCUE OF AUSTRIAN i , ,SO.Li>ijdii-iS. | .■VIENNA, March 3. I All the soldiers overwhelmed by the avalanche at Bruener have been I rescued. j [The detachment numbered six officers and 25' men.] ' ■ • . THE BURNS-JOHNSON: FIGHT. NEW YORK, March 3. i Klaw and Erlanger have offered Mr $ Mclntosh, promoter of the Burns- ' Johnson fight, £50,000 for all his Am- | erican cinematograph rights. A TENEMENT FIRE—TEN LIVES LOST. ■ . A high tenement building in New York has been .burned down. ; Ten persons perished in the fire. CANADIAN STEAMSHIP SUBSIDY. (Received March 4, 11.45 p.m.) ; K OTTAWA, March 4. Owing to the. Franco-Canadian convention, Canada is increasing the subsidy to direct steamships from £15,000 to £40,000 annually, conditionally on speed being increased and voyages being made more frequently. BROKEN HILL . CUSTOMS REVE- . -NUE—A HEAVY DECREASE. SYDNEY, March 4. The Customs revenue at Broken Hill for February showed a decrease of £6500 on the January receipts! , A SUFFRAGIST RELEASED. (Received March 5, 12.10 a.m.) ; LONDON, March 4. Mrs! Despard, the suffragist, has been released on the ground of illhealth. '• . OBITUARY—MAX HIRSCH. (Received March 5, 12.56 a.in.) MELBOURNE, March 4. .A private cablegram announces the death at Vladivostock of Mr. Max Hirsch, well known in Victorian public life. He. was correspondent of the British Board of Trade -in Victoria, and was on' a tour of "the world at the time of his death.