CENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2633, 15 October 1909, Page 5

CENERAL CABLE NEWS.

CHLOROFORAIED AND ROBBED

United Press Association —Copyright

VIENNA, Oct. 13

Four men and three women were found chloroformed and rob tod in one compartment of the Vienna-Warsaw express.

THE COAIAIERCIAL CONGRESS PRESIDENT.

AIELBOURNE, Oct. 14

Sir Albert Spicer is a passenger to New Zealand by the Aloana, which has left for the Bluff.

THE SYDNEY WOOL TRADE

SYDNEY, Oct. 14

Arrangements have been made lor tiie recently-adopted wool-selling settlement not to be disturbed this season.

N.S.W. FINANCIAL DEBATE

In the Assembly, Air. McGowan opened tho financial debate. He supported the agreement for 25s per capita return from the Commonwealth, and the transfer of State debts. PERPLEXED SPORTSMEN. A pair of New Zealand pied stilts have been shot at Aludgee. Sports men are perplexed as to how the bums reached the locality. THE PHILIPPINES CUSTOMS TARIFF. LONDON,' October 13. The Pliillipines’ Customs tariff came into operation on October 4. The British Board of Trade has issued a text hook with a preface drawing shippers’ attention to the preference clause. A COSTLY UNDERTAKING. AIELBOURNE, Oct, 14. • The report of the engineers on tho transcontinental railway, Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta, 1063 miles, estimates the cost at £3,988,900. IMPORTANT TO MOTORISTS. (Received October 14, 10.50 p.m) . LONDON, October 14. The Chief Justice (Lord Alverstone) and Justices Darling and Bucknill have decided that it is illegal for Automobile Associations to employ scouts to warn drivers of motor cars when nearing police traps.