GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2687, 17 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

THE INFLUENZA FIEND

United I’nubß Association —Copyiuoiit LONDON, Dec. 15. . Thirty deaths occurred from influenza last week.

CANADA ECONOMISING. Mr. Fielding, Minister of-Finance, in a Statement in the Dominion House of Commons, estimated the revenue for the current year at 97,500,000 dollars, and the expenditure chargeable to an income of 51,000,000 dollars. This was due to rigid economy. Mr Feilding stated that owing to the disturbance of the money market Canada does not intend to float a permanent loan—merely £3,000,000 of 3J per centum treasury bills to cover the half-year’s operations from Ist January ...

RAILWAY COMPANY’S ENTERPRISE.

Sir Thornes Shauglmessy, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, has arrived in England to extend emigration to the Canadian Pacific Railway’s lands. The company proposes to. build houses, fence holdings, and break and sow the soil ready for immigrants, enabling anyone with £IOO capital to start. LABOR ORGANISING. A conference of Labor leaders of Canada and the United States, at Pittsburg, resolved to organise the iron, steel, and tinplate workers to combat the steel trust. They will ask the unions of the two countries to assist. MUTINOUS SAILORS. Four of the crew of H.M.S. Leviathan, at Gibraltar, have been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for mutinous conduct. GERMAN-BRITISH COMMERCE. Britain and Germany concluded a convention for mutual protection of tradfe marks in Corea. It is stated that Sir Ernest Cassell is visiting Berlin with the object of discussing German proposals for British co-operation in the construction of the Bagdad railway. A TIMELY .APOLOGY. Mr. Rumford (husband of Madame Clara Butt, the singer) has apologised ior assaulting the “Times” musical 'critic, and the summons has been withdrawn. HALLEY’S COMET. The exhibitions of Halley’s comet are notable for the fluctuations in their brightness. It was of the tenth magnitude in November, and a fortnightlater was of the twelfth magnitude. RUSSIAN TYRANNY.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 15

The publisher of Count Tolstoy’s “Kingdom of God Within Us” has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment an a fortress.

AFFAIRS IN NICARAGUA

NEW YORK, Dec. 15

Reuter’s correspondent at Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, states that the entire country is in a ferment. The people demand American intervention. They fear that President Zelaya will order the wholesale execution of 'political prisoners. Mobs in Managua are parading the streets, cheering America and General Estrada.

STEERAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. The United States Immigration Commission has issued an extraordinary report on the steerage condition of Trans-Atlantic liners, obtained on voyages by its secret agents. The sleeping quarters were stated to be filthy. Male stewards, crew, and male steerage passengers on many steaniships crowded the women’s compartments. Their language and manner were revolting and- insulting. The . Cunard, White Star, and other companies arc indignant and deny the allegations.

THE MISSING WARATAH. {Received December. 16, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 16. The Waratah has been officially posted as missing. A Board of Trade inquiry will shortly be held.

THE KING’S HOSPITAL FUND

The King’s Hospital Fund has reached £1,105,000.

NATAL’S GOVERNOR

Lord Methuen has been appointed Governor of Natal.

RUSSIFYING FINLAND

(Received December 16, 8.45 p.m.) HELSINGFORS, Dec. 16.

It is reported at Helsingfors that General Seyn, the new Governor of Finland, *,is empowered to re-establish a dictatorship similar to that "which existed under General Bobrikoff. {Shortly' before the Russo-Japanese war,’ the Russian Government, in flagrant violation l of treaty obligations, endeavored to crush the free institutions of Finland, and sent General Bobrikoff to do so. The scheme failed on account of the confusion created by the war.] / -