GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2495, 7 May 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

ORDER FOR CARGO STEAMERS. United Press Association—Cofyiugiit. ’"SYDNEY, May 5. Advices have been received that the Weir Company has placed orders in Glasgow for the construction of four high c 1 ass cargo steamers to trade between Sydney, Auckland, and San Francisco. .THE KING’S OATH OF ACCESSION A large meeting of'Orangemen passed a resolution opposing Mr Redmond’s Bill for. the amendment of the King’s oath of accession. It was decided to cable a protest to Mr Asquith. CHEAPER CABLES. MELBOURNE, May G. The Postmaster-General intends to place a proposal for cheaper cable messages before the Pacific Cable Board. The scheme is that tho present 3s rate should stand, but that a Is 6d rate for code and Is for plain English be,charged for delayed delivery cables. GREEK AT OXFORD. LONDON, May 5. The Council of the University of Oxford has agreed to the principle that Greek shall be no longer compulsory for the degree of Arts. WIRELESS IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 5. Wireless stations are-being set up on the roofs of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, New York, and the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, to exchange press messages between the two cities. LORD DOUGLAS ACQUITTED FOR SHOOTING AN INTRUDER. VICTORIA, 8.C., May 5. The Grand Jury of British Columbia returned “no bill” against Lord Sholto Douglas, upon a charge of shooting an intruder in his house in Novembei last. NEW ZEALAND PRESS DELEGATES The Canadian Club banqueted the New Zealand press delegates, who are passing through British Columbia .on their way to England. DEALING WITH INFANTICIDE. (Received -May G, 9.15 p.m.) I LONDON, May G. In the House of Lords Lord Alvertone’s Bill, which simply records, without pronouncing, death sentences in cases of child murder by mothers, when it is unlikely that they will be executed, was read a second time by 78 to 75. A GERMAN EXPLORER AlTft- “ DEI? ED. x\. tribe on the Upper Sal win murdered Herr Brunhnber Schmitz, a German explorer, going to Thibet. ’[The' Sal win, or Salween, is a river flowing between Burma and Siam, rising in Thibet.] EUCHARISTIC VESTMENTS. Clergy and laity to the number of 41,G1G have petitioned Convocation against Eucharistic vestments. THE POPE—AN ATTACK ON MODERNISM. • (.;■ ItOME, May 6. The Pope urges the clergy to fight against modernism.