GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2646, 30 October 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

NEW STEAMER LAUNCHED. United Press Asßk.riATtoN—Copyright. ' LONDON, October 28. ’ The steamer Mineric, for the ' San Francisco-Anstralian mail service, has been launched at Glasgow. KEIR HARDIE ROBBED. While Mr. Keir Hardie was entering a tramcar at Bermondsey a pickpocket stole a watch presented to him ,by the Independent Labor party. COMPULSORY CONCILIATION BILL REJECTED. NATAL, October 28. The Natal Assembly has rejected the second reading of the Compulsory Conciliation in Labor Bill. MINER’S HORRIBLE DEATH. SYDNEY, October 28. A miner named McGinley, missing for ten days, from Bega, was found in an old shaft, just dead from starvation. His feet were terribly ■ lacerated in attempts to escape from, his predicament. . ANOTHER THEATRE FOR SYDNEY Another theatre, capable of seating 3000 persons, is to be erected in Oxford Street. CLOSING THE CANTEENS. MELBOURNE, October 28. The Licensed Victuallers’ Conference decided to. ask Mr. Deakin to have the clause in the Defence Bill abolishing canteens recommitted. ■ ' ■ - ■ COLONIAL BANK DEFALCATIONS At the meeting of the Colonial Bank of Australasia, the chairman stated that the recent defalcations totalled £3593. FIRE IN SHIP’S COAL BUNKERS. PERTH, October 29. Three outbreaks of fire have occurred in the coal bunkers 7 of the steamer Itonus. They are supposed to be due to spontaneous combustion. The damage is not serious. QUEENSLAND’S NEW AGENTGENERAL. BRISBANE, O’ctober 28. Mr Robinson, director of Mcllwraiith, McEachern and Co., succeeds Sir 'Horace Tozer as Agent-General. THE PLANET MARS—INTEREST-* ING OBSERVATIONS. (Received October 29, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 29. The Astronomical Society reports that recent observations of the planet Mars show that a gloomy yellow veil enshrouds immense tracts, obliterating the canal markings. Last August the southern polar cap was observed to bo fractured, and a brilliant spot covered one dusky area. Scientific circles are much interested in. the observations. SUPPLIES FOR TROOPS IN SOUTH AFRICA. ■ ♦ J The War Office is inviting Australian, tenders, to be in by the 6th January, for a year’s supply of forage and meat for the troops in South Africa, commencing in April next. AN ALARMING AMERICAN DISEASE. . NEW YORK, October 29. Mr. Rockefeller has given a million dollars to a commission.-of. doctors investigating the hookworm disease, prevalent in the rural districts of the southern States. It is similar to sleep-; ing sickness. The commission states that two million persons of all classes» are infected. A .SEVERE HAILSTORM. - • SYDNEY, 'October- 29. ' ' A severe hailstorm lias occurred at Wyong. Lumps of ice as big as hens’ eggs fell, and did much damage to fruit. Many fowls were killed.

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