GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2452, 17 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

CATHOLIC TRADE UNIONISTS AND EDUCATION. United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, March 15. A conference at Glasgow, representing 30,000 Catholic trade unionists, protested against the Scottish Trade Union Congress resolving in favor of •secular education. The conference considered the resolution outside tne scope of trade unionism. LOANS OF UNEMPLOYED RELIEF. Since August Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, has authorised 569 loans, amounting to £2,708,660, for unemployment works. FATAL COLLISION AT SEA. BERLIN, March 15. The iron sailing ship Margretta, from Hamburg, sunk in the North .Sea, after colliding with the Norwegian steamer Mascot. The captain, his wife,, and child, and seven hands are missing. Nine survivors landed at Lowestoft and six at Rotherdam.

STARVATION IN ALBANIA. ■ CONSTANTINOPLE,. March 15. There are thousands of %eople foodless in Northern Albania. THE RUSSIAN PREMIER—-IN A CRITICAL STATE OE HEALTH. ST. PETERSBURG, March 15. M. Stolvpin, Russian Prime Minister, is in a critcal state of health. OPIUM SEIZURES IN AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, March 16. The opium seizures in the Commonwealth for the past three years are valued at £11,794. TELEGRAPH LINEMAN ELECTROCUTED. PERTH, March 16. A lineman named Cox, working on the overhead wires, fell across a ®bve cable carrying 2000 volts, aim was roasted to. death. EX-PRESIDENT EvmoEVßi/T—----VISIT TO MESSINA. (Received March 16. 9.10 p.m.) ROME, March 16. The Italian police are in a state of trepidation owing to the intention of ex-President Roosevelt, with Ins wife and three children, to visit Messina, which is a stronghold of the Mafia. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. (Received March 16, 11.58 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 16. Warships in Port Jackson and Hobson’s Bay succeeded in establishing wireless communication, and several messages were exchanged. The naval authorities are convinced that it isonly a matter of time when a wireless service will bo in operation between the ships of the squadron in variousports. POPULATION OF VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, March 16. The population of Victoria at the end of last year was 1,273,313 males 649,189, females 634,124. [The population at the end of 1907 was J.,258,,140.]