GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2668, 25 November 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

/ GERMANY AND CANADA.

United Press Association— Copyright OTTAWA; Nov. 23.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, speaking in the Dominion House of Commons, said the Government deemed it inexpedient to enter into trade negotiations with Germany or any other country, until the French treaty was disposed of. AMERICA’S NEW ( NAVAL BASE. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. America has decided to make Pearl Harbor impregnable regardless of cost. They are already dredging a channel 45 feet deep through the sand bar. THE MISSING COLONEL ASTOR. Telegrams from New York deny Colonel Astor’s reported arrival at San. Juan. AMERICANS IMPRISONED AT NICARAGUA. There are one hundred Americans still imprisoned at Nicaragua. OVERDUE VESSEL ARRIVES. LONDON, Nov. 23. The Denbigh Castle has arrived from Mollendo. She took thirteen months on the voyage from Peru. VIENNA POISONING CASE. VIENNA, Nov. 23. An officer is suspected in Vienna of the attempts at poisoning. The recipients of the packets included eleven out of 25 newly-appointed to the staff. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST RUSSIAN OFFICIALS. MOSCOW, Nov. 23. Judicial proceedings have been instituted against 66 officials of the controlling commission in the Moscow Commissariat Department, the . officials being charged with irregularities. A SUSPECTED MURDERER. SYDNEY, Nov. 24. Garlech (suspected of robbing and murdering the man Coleman at Dungog) secured £SO of Coleman’s money besides what ho got from the hank. Garlech is believed to be aboard a steamer shortly due at Suez, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. THE P. AND 0. SERVICE. Mr. Shields, one of the general managers of the P. and O. Company, proceeds to New Zealand in connection with the extension of the service.