GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2639, 22 October 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

CHEMICAL SCIENTIST ARRESTED

United Press Association —Copyright, LONDON, Oct. 21).

Dr Martin, a chemical scientist, well known in the Swedish colony in London, has been remanded at Bow Street on a charge of sending bombs to Ilammerjoholm. • , TENNYSON MEMORIAL STATUE. Mr Thorneycroft’s memorial statue of Lord-. Tennyson has been unveiled at Trinity College, Cambridge. PEA RIFLE TRAGEDIES. SYDNEY, Oct. 21. The coroner, at the inquest on the body of a man shot by a pea rifle, stated that no less than 31 persons had met their deaths in New South Wales by a similar cause last year. THE BESSES O’ THE BARN BAND. ” LONDON, Oct. 20. The Besses o’ the Barn Band are starting for South Africa, thence they, proceed to Australia. CHINESE MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH. SYDNEY, October 20. Lee Sing has Tieen sentenced to death for the murder of May Phillip on September 11th. [May Phillip, a white woman, was found murdered in the residence of a Chinaman with whom she had been living.] RECORD ENTRY-'FOR AUSTRALIAN WOOL SALE. (Received October 22, 12.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, October 21. For Saturday’s wool sale 33,300 bales have been catalogued, valued at over- half-a-million sterling. This is the largest number ever offered at asingle sale in Australia.