GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2563, 26 July 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DEFENCE * CONFERENCE DELEGATES.

United Press Association —oopyrigiit

LONDON, July 23. The Commonwealth delegates to tho Defence Conference have arrived.

FALSE PRETENCES. The police at Manchester have issued a warrant for the arrest of Julius Wilier on a charge of publishing an alleged false prospectus of Wilier, Riley and Company, and other charges. IMPRISONMENT FOR PRINTING THE SOCIOLOGIST. Arthur Fletcher Horsley, printer of tho paper Sociologist, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment in the first division.' AUSTRALIAN WINE AS BURGUNDY. The County of London sessions allowed the appeal against a conviction respecting the, sale of Australian wine as Burgundy.

[The case was one in which a. res-taurant-keeper was fined £l. The wine had been supplied to. him by a wholesale firm, who had labelled the bottles in mistake.]

A BUILDING COLLAPSES. ST. PETERSBURG, July 23. A five-storied building at St. Petersburg, in. the course of construction, collapsed, killing 20 persons and injuring many others.

AUSTRALIAN JOINT STOCK BANK. SYDNEY, July 24. At the half-yearly meeting of the Australian Joint Stock Bank the shareholders approved of the reconstruction scheme. TRAINING IN THE BRITISH ARMY. Major-General Hoad’s report of his .tour of inspection in England lays stress on the great improvements in the methods of training in the British army. He says: “Common-sense and practical methods are now employed generally. No ornamental work is attempted.”

THE AUSTRALIAN DREADNOUGHT

FUND

The Dreadnought fund has reached £82,000.

OLD AGE PENSIONS

The Old Age Pensions Bill passed through Committee, and the House adjourned until Tuesday.

TRAVELLERS’ SAMPLES. The Minister of Customs has decided that bona fide travellers’ samples, the manufacture of the United Kingdom, brought to Australia via New Zealand, will be admitted at the preferential rates.

IN NEED OF POPULATION.

ADELAIDE, July 24

The report of the Government Resident of the Northern Territory refers to the pressing need of population. At tho time Federation was established'the Territory’s population was 4906. It has now fallen to 3000.

[The Northern Territory has an area of 523,620 square miles, that is to say, it is five times as largo as New Zealand.]

LONDON BANK AMALGAMATION. (Received July 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 24. Subject to tho shareholders’ approval, the London and Country and London and Westminster banks will amalgamate, with a Subscribed capital of 14 millions sterling, 3i millions of which are paid up. NEW ZEALAND PROBATE DUTY APPEAL DISMISSED. The appeal in the case of the Minister for Stamp Duties (New Zealand) versus Townend has been dismissed with costs in the House of Lords.

AUSTRALASIAN BLUEJACKETS — TO BE REVIEWED BY THE KING.

King Edward will review tho Australian and New Zealand navy men on Monday, at Buckingham Palace.