GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2469, 6 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE SALISBURY MURDER

United Press Association —Copyright.

LONDON, April 4.- (

Mrs. Haskell was acquitted on the second trial, the jury considering the evidence insufficient to convict.

[Mrs. Haskell was accused of having murdered her crippled soil at Salisbury,] ; , • . .: .

CEREBRAL MENINGITIS

PARIS, April i.

There are ninety-two cases of cerebal meningitis in Paris. The patients are being treated with Wasserman’s serum.

MISREADING OF A SIGNAL

SYDNEY, April 5

The -misreading of the Eehunga’s signal led to the wire as to the captain’s death and to all preparations being ready for his fttuneral, when lie arrived in good,, health.

HEAT IN SYDNEY

SYDNEY, April 5

Yesterday the thermometer registered 89, the hottest April day. since 1859. (Received April 5, 10.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 5. The protracted spell of hot weather lias broken, and good rain is falling.

RUSSIA —SENTENCES COMM UTED

(Received April 5, 9.30 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, April 5. The Czar has commuted the sentences of 14 of the men who some time ago escaped from the Alexandrovsky prison. [The men in question had been sentenced to death.] KING EDWARD—IN EXCELLENT HEALTH. (Received April 5, 11.48 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. King Edward is in excellent health, and is making vigorous excursions in the vicinty of Biarritz. OFFICIAL CHANGES IN SCOTLAND (Received April 5, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. Sir Stair Agnew,' Registrar General for Scotland, has resigned. Mr. J PMcDougall, Vice-president of the L 1.0 Government Board for Scotland, has succeeded him, and Sir G. Macßae ’member of the House of Commons, succeeds Mr. McDougall. PLAGUE—ANOTHER CASE iN SYDNEY. - _ SYDNEY, April 5. Another case of plague has occurred in Sussex Street.

A SUCCESSFUL TRAWLING TRIP

MELBOURNE, April 5

The Federal trawler, in a: trip Itom Sydney, captured four tons of fish, including half-a-ton of John Dory winch is considered very scarce n Australian waters. ' v