GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2584, 19 August 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SIR JOSEPH WARD. Unit Hi) Punas Assort vn.os T/orYniwUi LONDON, August .17. 1 The Chinese Ambassador had lunch? eon with Sir Joseph and Lady V» ru'd, (Received August 18, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. Sir Joseph A yard enter Lulled Dm Hon. W. Hall-Jones ami the staff of the High Commissioner’s office at luncheon at the Hotel Cecil. GREAT FIRE IN GLASGOW. A fire destroyed a. block of business premises and tho Albion Hull, Ingram street, Glasgow, causing damage to the extent of £250,000. DIN AGUE I’S EXEC IJ TI ON. Dinagliri was stolid and defiant to the end. He read many books' and showed no signs’ of fear. He walked to the scaffold at Pentonvilie prison unassisted. Death was instantaneous. A DARWIN EXHIBITION. A Darwin? exhibition lias opened at South Kensington with, fully illustrated studies of discoveries of the great naturalist. A BLACKMAILER’S SENTENCE. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, in reply to Mr. Cathcart Was on, said that he was unable to find any ground for interference with the sentence of 20 years passed on Veltheim in February for blackmailing Mr. Solly Joel. THE BRITISH POST OFFICE. Sir Matthew Nathan. Governor of Natal, succeeds Sir H. Mabington Smith as Secretary of tho Post Office. THE - ADANA MASSACRES. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 17. The Turkish Government Commission acquits the Armenians of all responsibility for the late Adana outbreak, which it ascribes to the ignorance of tho population. THE PALMA TROPHY.

OTTAWA, August 17. Canada does not send a rifle team to compete for the Palma trophy.