GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2650, 4 November 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE. United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 2. The Labor .Party has received a Government promise to appoint a commission to inquire- into the facts concerning the working of industrial assurance companies and societies. FATALLY STABBED BY A BURGLAR. An escaping burglar fatally stabbed George Storrs, one of the largest building contractors in England, at his residence, Gorse Hall, Stalbridge. CAPE INCOME TAX BILL. CAPETOWN, Nov. 2. The Cape Assembly has readopted the income taxes agreed to in 1908 and negatived a proposal to relieve small incomes. KING OF ABYSSINIA DYING. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov 2. Several reports state that King Menelik, of Abyssinia, is dying,. NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN. SYDNEY, Nov. 3. The New' South Wales Alliance has decided to secure the services of Rev L. M. Isitt and Mr. T. E. Taylor in connection with the no-license campaign at the forthcoming elections. CHAIR OF .AGRICULTURE AT 1 SYDNEY. Mr. Robert Watt, of the Transvaal Agricultural Department, has been chosen to fill the chair of Agriculture in Sydney University. A TERRIBLE DEATH. (Received November 3, 11 p.m.) t MELBOURNE, Nov. 3. A fitter named BeerbaOm was caught in the belting at the cement works and whirled round. -His arms were dragged from the sockets, and his body thrown 20 feet away. He was picked up,., dead.