GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2472, 10 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

HOR ATIO BOTTOM LEY’S TRANSACTIONS. United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, April 7, Cases are proceeding in the Appeal Court to recover large sums upon bills of exchange. It was incidentally alleged in connection therewith that a young officer named Vincent Eyre had lost £BOOO sterling as the result of transactions in which Horatio Bottom:ey and Ernest Torah Heoley had taken part. THE FELTON BEQUEST. The trustees of tire Felton bequest have purchased Burno Jones’ picture. ‘•The Wheel of Fortune” for the Melbourne Art Gallery. INTER NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS. The Prince of Wales, presiding at the Royal Commission of International Exhibitions, declared that Britain’s nog lect of this form of national advertising was highly detrimental to the interests of.a manufacturing country. Ho strongly hoped the unprecedented facilities offered to Britishers to exhibit at Brussels and Turin would overcome their reluctance. GENERAL CASTRO. At the instance of the Washington Government, General Castro’s landing at Trinidad was forbidden. TURKISH EDITOR SHOT. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7. The editor of the ‘'Herbesti” was shot dead by an emissary of the Committee of Union and Progress at Constantinople. Shakir Bey, who was accompanying the editor, was wounded. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT MESSINAROME, April 7. King Emanuel greeted Mr Rooscveit at Messina. _i ' l THE MAFIA MURDER. Carlo Constantino and Antonio Passanafce, ex-convicts from America, were arrested at Palermo and charged with the murder of Pet rosin i, the'Ameiican detective. Constantino was unable to satisfactorily explain why he sent a code message to New York alter the crime. AGRICULTURAL IMMIGRANTS. MELBOURNE, April 8. One of the originators of the Association entitled the Empire Builders, Ltd., London, formed for the purpose of settling emigrants in British dependencies, has arrived with a batch of twelve agriculturists, who will work together on the shares plan. -