GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2509, 24 May 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

i EMPIRE DAY SERMONS. United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, May 21. Over four thousand clergymen in Britain .preach Empire Day sermons on Sunday. SHEPHERD’S BUSH EXHIBITION. The exhibitors at Shepherd’s Bush Exhibition include Russia, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Holland, Persia, and China.

BRITISH WORKS OF ART. An association is being formed to prevent foreigners buying important works of art until first offered to the British nation. AUSTRALIAN LOANS. The West Australian loan has been covered three-fold. A New South Wales loan is being issued on Monday, £3,000,000 at 34 per cent., with a minimum of 9SJ. AUCKLAND DRAINAGE LOAN. The Auckland drainage loan of £IOO,000 at 4 per cent, is being issued at par. PRICE OiFeXPLOSIVES.

Owing to the excessive, price of blasting powder Northumberland miners requested the Aimers’ Federation to establish an explosives factory. AYIDENING PARISIAN STREETS. PARIS, Alay 21. The Alunicipal Council is considering a £32,000,000 scheme to widen streets in the vicinity of the central markets; to reconstruct schools, and for improving the poorer quarters. • AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. SYDNEY, May 22. The prospects of a fusion of the Cook and Deakin parties, are brighter. It is certain, fusion or no fusion, that the Fisher Government will be challenged on the House meeting. A STATE BREEDING FARM. AIELBOURNE, Alay 22. The committee appointed by the Alinister of Defence to enquire into t scheme of Commonwealth ownership of horses for military purposes urges the establishment of State breeding farms.A LIBEL CASE. A ease in which the Rev. Ronald sought to recover £3OOO damages for libel from Robert Harper, member of Parliament, resulted in a verdict for defendant.

OBSOLETE STAAIPS. > LONDON, Alay 21. In the House of Commons Mr Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-General, informed Mr Henniker Heaton of the purport of the reply despatched to the Commonwealth on the 16th April. There were no stamps considered obsolete here unless declared so by the. country of origin.

The Nimrod left a large quantity of foodstuffs behind when she sailed for Sydney. The material included pony rations, preserved fruit, dried vegetables and other things of the kind which were not consumed by the explorers. As a result of a suggestion made to him, Lieutenant Shackleton decided to give the provisions to the Governrnoirfc, and it is expected that they will be sent to the outlying islands and stored. The food is well packed, and is well adapted for going into depots, for the use of possible castaways. Feebleness in old age is greatly overcome by Stearns’ AYino of Cod Livei Extract. It gives new. life to old tissues. and helps and invigorates the whole system.