GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2553, 14 July 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SYMPATHY FROM KING EDWARD. United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, July 12. King Edward has offered Earl Grey liis sympathy on the occasion of the death of his excellent and distinguished father (the late Marquis of Ripon). •V A BY-ELECTION. For the Mid-Derbyshire vacancy the Liberals have decided to support Mr Hancock, a Labor Socialist. THE RESULT OF A FEUD. BRISBANE, July 13. As a result of a feud, Michael Duffy shot his half-brother, Thomas Stack, an hotelkeeper, dead at Croodont. DEFAULTING TELLER ARRESTED. MELBOURNE, July, 13. Fitzsimmons, the. missing hank toller, has been arrested at Brisbane. LABOR M.P. TO VISIT THE COLONIES. . (Received July 13, 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. Mr. Will Crooks, Labor M.P. for Woolwich, is to sail on September 10th. Ho will spend three weeks in Canada, and several in Australia, starting back at the end oft December. He hopes to learn something of the spirit of the. peoples of the overseas Dominions. CHOLERA SPREADING IN RUSSIA ST. PETERSBURG, July 13. Cholera is spreading in the Russian provinces. A SENTENCE COMMUTED. SYDNEY, July 13. Crooks’ sentence for shooting Sinclair, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. ALLEGED HORSE-STEALER EXTRADITED. ,"SYDNEY, July 13. The extradition of Howard Stanton Walters has been ordered ou a charge of stealing two horses at Pukehoko, New Zealand. PERSIA SHAH NEGOTIATING WITH NATIONALISTS. TEHERAN, July 13. The Shah is negotiating with the Nationalists westward of Teheran on lines which the Foreign Legations consider reasonable. EXPLOSION ON AMERICAN CRUISER. NAPLES, July 13. A boiler on the United States cruiser North Carolina, at Naples, burst, killing an officer named Stewart. PRINCE BULOW’S PROBABLE SUCCESSOR. - BERLIN, July 13. There are indications that Herr Von Bethmann Holliweg, Minister of the Interior, will be Prince Billow’s succssor.