GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2609, 17 September 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SIR RALPH MOOR COMMITS SUICIDE. United Press Ahhociation—Cofyrioht. LONDON, Sept. 15. Sir Ralph Moor, late High Commissioner of Southern Nigeria, committed suicide at Barnes by taking poison. NEW feOUTH WALES IMMIGRATION SCHEME. Lord Milner, interviewed respecting the New South Wales immigration scheme, says he considers England can not spare people off the land. He suggests utilising town boys, who are sharp and willing. London boys, if taken young, would make excellent citizens and settlers. TROUBLE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15. The “Novoe Vremya” states that the German Consul at Harbin destroyed seals affixed to the premises of a German. merchant refusing to pay taxes in the Russian settlement. The incident is now being amicably settled, between St. Peterburg and Berlin. AUSTRIAN AND HUNGARIAN % ARMAMENTS. $ - BUD A PESTH, Sept. 15. The Austrian and Hungarian. Ministers of Finance resist the naval and military credits demanded, including provision for building the four Dreadnoughts projected. VALUABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES STOLEN. SYDNEY, Sept, 15. A quantity of valuable photographic plates and a camera, the property of the Melbourne representative of the New Zealand tourist department, were stolen from the steamer Moeraki after arrival at Sydney. THE ARCADIA HOTEL POISONING CASE. The Coroner found that Cox died from the effects of poison negligently left by Dyktor in a bottle in his bedroom in the Arcadia hotel. Dyktor was committed for trial. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. A fire at Kempsey destroyed seven shops. VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE. MELBOURNE, Sept. 16. The contract with the Union Company for the Vancouver mail service was signed by the Postmaster-General yesterday. The conditions are similar to those which expired in August. RENEWED UNREST IN INDIA. (Received September 16, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16. There is renewed unrest in Calcutta and Bengal. Students are sytc-matic-ally assaulting tramcar conductors and refusing to pay fares.

RECALCITRANT POLICE OFFICERS.

Three police officers at Preston have been dismissed and nine reduced in rank for bribery, drinking, and betting. PERU AND BOLIVIA. LA PAZ, Sept, 16. It is rumored at La Paz that the Peruvian Government has sent an ultimatum demanding that Bolivia shall accept or reject the recent arbitration award at once.