GENERAL GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2605, 13 September 1909, Page 5

GENERAL GABLES.

BEQUESTS TO NEW ZEALAND HOSPITALS. United Piucbs Abhuciat on—Uopviugiit. SYDNEY J Sept. 11. The late Dr Muskett left £SO each annually to hospitals for sick children at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. BANK CLERK ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. MELBOURNE, Sept. 11. Woodville, a clerk in the EnglishScottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, has been arrested on a charge of extensive embezzlements. RUSSIAN "IMMIGRANTS. BRISBANE, Sept. 11. Twenty-nine Russian immigrants arrived from Siberia and Manchuria to take up land here and in Victoria. AN IMPERIAL AGRICULTURAL UNION. LONDON, Sept. 10. The South African Agricultural Union resolved to communicate with other Agricultural Associations with a view to the formation of an Imperial Agricultural Union. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 12 per cent., 8s per share, and added £50,000 to reserve, £12,000 to the premises account, and carried £16,900 forward. A BRITISH MERCHANT RE-AR-RESTED IN RUSSIA. LONDON, Sept. 10. Mr Nicholas Luxemburg, a British merchant, whom Russia compensated for false arrest at Odessa, was rearrested on landing at Yalta, Crimea.