GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2682, 11 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DETERMINED ROBBERY. United Prk6b Absooiation—Copyright LONDON, Dec. 9'. Burglars removed a safe from the Goswell Road post office, containing £ISOO, to a 'house in Rosebery Avenue. The police watched eight men endeavoring to open it. After a violent struggle they cajptured seven. LESS HOURS : LESS WORK. Since the eight hours period has been enforced, 500, instead of 600 tracks of coal are sent over the Taff Vale railway daily. THE STOUR MURDER-. Despite several witnesses alleging an alibi, the magistrates committed Howard for trial in connection with Mr.. . Storr’s murder. UNWHOLESOME LITERATURE. The Council of Mothers Union, -representing 300,000, support the action of the circulating libraries in excluding objectionable books from the libraries. THE LAST OF ANDREE. BERLIN, Dec. 9. The Tageblatt fixes the reported descent of M. Andfee’s balloon in a remote part of North Canada. THE KIEL SCANDAL. The appeal in connection with the Kiel scandal has been withdrawn. A TIMELY ILLNESS. NEW YORK, Dec. 9. Sheldon', whoh as been indicted for appropriating a million dollars, has not been arrested because he was critically Td. CANADA SATISFIED WITH AMERICAN TARIFF. , OTTAWA, Dec. 9. The Canadian Government is satisfied from President Taft’s reference to the miximum clause that no tariff was is likely. " “ALL WELL” ON MAKURA. ~~SYDNEY, Dec. 9. .Word has been received that the steamer Makura, on which wireless apparatus has ■ been installed, had communicated -with Vancouver, 1320 miles .distant, the message being: “All Well.” . SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S STATE BANK ADELAIDE, Dec. 9. Officials of the State Bank strongly resent the committee's report. They claim that there ,is no ground for the findings. .