GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2597, 3 September 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SUPPOSED SPY ARRESTED. United Puuhb Absooiation — Copyuicht. LONDON, Sept. 1. A coffee house keeper at Sedan has been arrested for employing carrier pigeons to Germany. A STEAMER DELAYED. The steamer Osterley Grange has beei\ delayed at Cdlombo owing to a bent piston rod. STEAMSHIP PROTECTION ASSOCIATION—AN OMINOUS ANNOUNCEMENT. (Received September 2, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. The Liverpool and London Steamship Protection Association has notified the •companies trading in Australia and New Zealand waters of its intention to refuse renewals of their entries after February 20 next, because the claims have been far in excess of their contributions to 1 the Association. A MOTOR CAR FATALITY. Lord De Clifford suddenly applied tlie brake to his motor car near Horsham, to avoid a cart. The motor overturned, and he was killed on the spot. FIRE AT ONTARIO PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. OTTAWA, Sept. 2. The Ontario Provincial Parliament buildings at Toronto have been partially burned. A million dollars’worth of damage was done. s A DEFECTIVE HOIST. "SYDNEY, Sept, 2. The Memyler hoist at Newcastle, which! was the subject of commission of inquiry, collapsed through the breaking of a screw, and crashed to the earth with a great noise. A NEW SOUTH WALES STRIKE. (Received September 3, 12.55 a.m.) .. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. Five hundred men employed in the cement works and . coal . .mine at Portland have struck for an increase of wages.