GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2548, 8 July 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

CHARLES DICKENS’ GRANDDAUGHTERS. United Puess Association —Copyright LONDON, July 0. Civil service pensions have been granted to four of Charles Dickens’ granddaughters. OLD ROMAN CITIES. The Society of Antiquaries has determined to excavate the site of old Roman cities at St..Albans and Salisbury. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITION. .. Two hundred and thirty thousand people attended the Church Missionary Societies’ exhibition at the Agricultural Hall. It was a great financial success. LEMOINE SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. Lemoine was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment and a fine of £l2O sterling, with banishment for five years. [Lemoine was convicted in connection •with a bogus scheme for the manufacture of diamonds.] BRITISH NATIONAL OPERAS. The “Morning Post” reports an offer of £300,000 sterling to endow a fund for the. production of British national operas. ANOTHER ORIENT LINER LAUNCHED. (Received July 7, 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 7. The Orvieto, the ned Orient Company’s steamer, has been launched at Belfast. THE NEWPORT DISASTER—THE DEATH ROLL. The death roll in connection with the landslide at Newport- dock is 38. FOURTH OF JULY DISASTERS. NEW YORK, July 6. Sixty persons were killed and 500 injured during the Independence Day celebrations in America, xpany of the casualties occurring during the explosions of giant crackers. A PARACHUTIST KILLED. A parachutist at Portland, Maine, in the presence of 5000 spectators, mil ooo' feet, and was dashed to pieces. STEAMSHIP OWNERS’ AGREEMENT RATIFIED. SYDNEY, July 7. •Tltc Institute of Marine. Engineers has ratified the agreement .with the Coastal Owners’' Association.