GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2686, 16 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

ADMITTING THE PRESS. iJNITKD PllKbß ASSOCIATION—COFVIUGHT LONDON, Dec. 14. The -general meeting of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome adopted Sir JV W. Taverner’s motion to admit the ipress. FINANCIAL FAILURE. At a meeting of the Law Guarantee, Trust and Accident Society, it was decided to go into voluntary liquidation. 7 A WIRELESS TELEPHONE. The installation of De Forest’s wireless telephone between the Eiffel Tower and New York is proceeding. MOTOR BEATS HORSES. The chairman of the London General Omnibus Company has informed shareholders that the motor omnibuses earned £59,000 and the horse vehicles lost £45,000. The petrol duty was the cause of an additional burden of £37,000 annually. LORD IjTSHER OF KILVERSTONE. The title of Lord Fisher, senior naval Lord of the Admiarlty, will be Lord Fisher of Kilverstone. AN ALBERT MEDALLIST. King Edward received Tom Lewis, and presented him with the Albert Medal. [Lewis is a newsboy aged 14, who in July last performed a deed of remarkable heroism.] OBITUARY. Obituary: Sir Alfred Jones, (president of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. The death is announced of Mr John Mackrell, formerly solicitor to the Governments of New Zealand and New South Wales. He suggested Sir Julius Vogel’s system of issuing colonial loans in the form of inscribed stock. The death has occurred of Mr George Salting. He had spent £30,000 annually (derived, from Australian sugar estates and sheep farms) upon art objects and a collection of Oriental china, which rival the collections of Mr Pierpont Morgan. .It i s believed he has left the collection to the nation. A NEW PROJECTILE. BERLIN, Dec. 14. The German War Office has adopted a unified projectile combining the functions of shrapnel and common shell, necessitating one, instead of two, kinds of ammunition. CANADIAN CORRUPTION. OTTAWA, Dec: 14. Judge Cannon, who is investigating civic affairs in Montreal, finds that they are simply saturated in corruption and soaked' in patronage. He declares that 25 iper cent, of the civic revenues are sunk in bribes. He recommends the prosecution of eight aidermen and several officials. COMMONWEALTH POLITICS. MELBOURNE, Dec. 15. The Federal Parliament has formally prorogued. Proceedings at the Wireless Conference are being conducted in private at the request of the Admiral, owing to defence matters being involved. A SHARK’S VICTIM . , , SYDNEY, Dec. 15. M*r Witt, chief officer of the German mail liner Plauen,. accidently fell overboard twenty miles off the coast on .the voyage from New Caledonia to Sydney. A lifebuoy was thrown, which he got hold of. A boat was lowered, but Witt was evidently taken bold of by a large shark, and was lost. WRECKAGE AT MANLY'. Two hatch coveirs, a piece of ’ gangway, and an old fashioned deck chair have been washed ashore on Manly Beach. The wreckage had apparently been in a fire. The hatch covers are marked P2 over L 3.