GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2691, 22 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BRENNAN’S GYROSCOPE.

United PiticbS Association— Copyright /•, LONDON, Dec. 20.

Mr Brennan has transferred the rights over his invention of the gyroscope railway to the British Army and Navy, in consideration of assistance required during the experiments. He has sold the German rights. A HANDSOME DONATION. Dr Graham, Professor of Chemistry at the University of London, has bequeathed the University College Hospital £35,000 for medical research. A BENEFICENT MAGNATE. The Maharaja of Nepaul, following the custom, lias distributed his weight in gold among his poor pilgrims. A MEMORABLE TOKEN. King Edward has presented South Africa with the table, inkstand, and pen used' in connection with the signing of the South Africa Union. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR CLAIM. The action of the Imperial Cold Storage Supply Co. versus the Crown cabled has been dismissed with costs. The trial was on a petition of right from the Imperial Cold Storage Company, claiming £280,000 damages from the Crown for breach of contracts. It was claimed that the War Office representatives 'promised to supply the company with all stock captured by Lord Kitchener during the Boer war at a penny below the price of the contract for supplying meat'to the army, whereas the War Offiee charged 3d above the . contract price, and refused to allow for disease or poverty of animals. Acfcording to some witnesses, Lord Kitchener declared that the old contractors had defrauded the War Office of £1,000,000, and he would not he satisfied till he got some back from the suppliants. An important question involved was whether the agreements were made under Dutch or English law.

OBITUARY. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 20. Obituary: The Grand Duke Michael Nicolavitch, the Czar’s grand uncle, at Cannes. THE CONFIDENCE TRICK.

ROME, Dec. 20

James O’Connor, an Australian, and J. Woods, a Londoner, have been arrested in Rome for defrauding Marcher, a Canadian tourist, by confidence trickery. The police believe the prisoners are leaders of a gang recently working among English and American tourists. Much money and many jewels were found in their possession. BOGUS PEARLS. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. It has been discovered that Mrs Wm. Astor’s magnificent five-strand pearl necklace contains 90 imitation pearls, reducing the value to £IO,OOO. ' FIRES CAUSE STAMPEDES. Stampedes occurred in connection with three fires in New York. Many persons were injured at Windsor Theatre, where there was an audience of 700; at Murray Hall Theatre, where the audience numbered 1600, and at Broadway Theatre. AMERICAN CHRISTMAS GIFTS. The New York Post Office, excluding that at Brooklyn, an extensive suburb, issued European money orders aggregating £1,540,900 sterling, representing Christma s gifts to European relatives. This is an increase of £459,600 over the amount sent in 1908. It is estimated that twelve million pounds sterling of foreign money orders in connection with Christmas have been issued throughout the United States. The bonuse s given to staffs of financial houses also indicate the present prosperity.