GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2488, 29 April 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

CENSOR’S PROHIBITION WITHDRAWN. LONDON, April 27. San Saeii’s opera, '‘Samson and Delilah” was produced at the Covent Garden theatre. The Queen secured the withdrawal of the censor’s prohibition, which was due to the theme of the play being a Biblical one. BAPTIST MINISTERS’ STIPENDS. •**. - • ■ The Council of the Baptist Church proposes to raise a fund of £IOO,OOO to improve ministers’ stipends. ROYALTIES AT MOUNT ETNA. ROME, April 27. King Edward, Queen Alexandra, Princess Victoria, and the EmpressDowager of Russia toured round the crater at Mount Etna. ' PRINCESS ROBBED OF JEWELLERY. A German princess was -robbed of £40,000 worth of jewels, in a train between San Remo and Lugano. FALL FROM A SKYSCRAPER. NEW YORK, April" 27. , A workman fell from a skyscraper, a height of 350 feet. ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS WELCOMED. SYDNEY, April 28. Lieutenant Shaekleton and Professor David had -an. enthusiastic reception at the annual dinner of the Royal Society of New South Wales. COOLIES FOR NICKEL WORKS. A batch of 199 Japanese coolies has arrived, en route for the New Caledonia nickel mines. FAMOUS SHEEP STATION SOLD. MELBOURNE, April 28. Horsfall’s iameu-i Widgieiva estate has been sold to Falkine-r -and Sons for £250,000. This includes the sheep. DECREASE IN VICTORIAN CATTLE For the year ending in March, the cattle in Victoria decreased by 268,000, dairy herds losing 100,000 cows. Sheep decreased by 160,000, and pigs by 31,600. The loss is attributed to the bad season. A YACHT MISSING. The yacht Lily, with five men aboard, is missing. It is feared that she foundered in Sunday’s gale. THE NATAL RAILWAY STRIKE. (Received April 28, 9.37 p.m.) DURBAN, April 28. Goods traffic in Natal is suspended, and the principal- passenger services are maintained with difficulty. The press and public denounce the strikers. Some labor leaders urge acceptance of the Government’s offer of arbitration to prevent trade passing to Dclagoa Bay. ANOTHER SUFFRAGIST DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, April 28. Three suffragettes chained themselves to the legs of the - statues in St. Stephen’s Hall. A scene, of excitement ensued while the police cut the chains, the suffragettes, shouting t,o tlioir friends for assistance. ANOTHER OPIUM SEIZURE. (Received April 29, 12.25 aim.) SYDNEY, April 28, The Customs authorities seized 200 tins of opium on the steamer Empire, concealed in false-bottomed trunks. Three Chinese were arrested. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. (Received April 28, 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, April 28. Lord Curzon, Chancellor of; the University. has published comprehensive proposals in reference to Oxfoid University, including the surrender of compulsory Greek, the establishment of a working man s, college, and a maximum charge of £6O per annum. .<