GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2477, 16 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THEIR MAJESTIES. United Press Association— Coryright LONDON, * pnl it. King Edward meets Queen AUxendra at Paris to-morrow. They p-unit'd to Genoa, where they embark on a cruise. A BALLOON AND AERONAUT MISSING. Bellamy, an aeronaut, a-seto-md from the Crystal Palace on Ylondiv t. the “Daily Chronicle’s” balloon. Tim balloon drifted towards Hob an .! , and is still missing. POSTAL CLERKS AND LA 3UR PARTY. The United Kingdom Postil Clerks’ Conference, at Nottingham, by a !n j- go majority, declined to affiliate w.li> tho Labor party on the ground tort the latter wan in itself divided and maii-ly socialistic. WOOD-SAWING RECORD. SYDNEY, April LAIn the sawing contest Higg’.'is at.d Harrington, of Hornsby, cut a. 10-iuch log in 20 4-osoc, knocking 3 l-ssoo di the world’s record. THE EARTH TREMORS. The earth tremors are believid to have originated not far distant Inm Australia. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL dluW The. total attendance at the sho v was 246,000. The takings were £10,626, as against £8398 last year. LORD DUDLEY AND THE ST. PATRICK’S DAY INCIDENT. A strong official denial is .given to the statement, that at Ale.bourne, at tbo St. -Patrick’s' Day celebration, Lord Dudley used the words, “I beg of you, for my sake, to give three cheers for the King-” Such a form of-invita-tion to any subject of the King, he declared, to bo as improper as unnecessary. OLD AGE PENSIONS. ' ♦ „ MELBOURNE, April !•>• The Federal Old Age Pensions Act came into operation to-day. . PEARLING BOATS MISSING. PERTH, April .5. ,An Onslow report, states that tout pearling boats, with 24 M i avs aboard, hove been missing since the hurricane of the sth, and it is feared that all nave been drowned. A Japan :se was swept off another boat and drowned. COM MERC fAL TRAVELLE US’ CON - E E PENCE. (Received April 15, 11.40 p.m.) PERTH, April 15. The Coiumerical Travellers’ Conference, after much discussion, carried, a resolution recommending the Dunedin Association to affiliate with those at Auckland and Wellington.