GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2606, 14 September 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LOSS OF THE SLAVONIA. United Press Ahh\-oiatlon —Copyuight. LONDON, Sept. 12. The Board of Trade inquiry finding was that loss of tho Slavonia was due to default, an error of judgment on the part of the master. AN ALPINE FATALITY. (Received September 13, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 13. Two tourists and a guide were caught in a windstorm and mist, and frozen to death at Moenchjock, on the Jungfrau, SwitzerlandINDECENT PUBLICATIONS. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, proposes legislation dealing with indecent publications and advertisements. ACCIDENT TO A DESTROYER. The destroyer Gipsy was badly damaged on the Wigtonshire coast. She crossed to Belfast with her pumps at work throughout the passage. A PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN HOLFORD. (Received September 14, 12.23 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 13. The Shipwreck Relief Society and the Humane Society has presented Captain Hoi ford, of the s.s. Tofua, with a pair of binoculars, in recognition of his humanity towards the survivors of the barque Errol, whom he rescued from Middleton Reef. ACCIDENT TO A POPULAR ACTRESS. MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. Owing to the overturning of a taxicab, Miss Florence Young, the actress, had a rib broken.