GENERAL CABLE NEWS,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2693, 24 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS,

WEALTHY BRITISHERS

Uni ’*i? I’uuss Association —Copyiiight. LONDON, Dc. 22. - The estate of the late Arthur Wilson, the Hull shipowner, has been sworn at £667,342 ;Consuelo Duchess of Manchester’s at £324,860, and B. L. Cohen’s at £385,146, yielding with other death duties in one day £35,000. AMERICANS HELP HOME RULE. Mr. T. O’Connor’s trip to America resulted in his obtaining subscriptions totalling £IO,OOO for the Irish funds. He stated that Mr. Asquith’ s endorsement of Home Rule helped to loosen the purse strings. KING LEOPOLD’S FUNERAL. BRUSSELS, Dec. 22. .There were dense crowds at the service at Brussels Cathedral in connection with King Leopold’s interment. ROUMANIAN PREMIER WOUNDED BUCHAREST, Dec. 22. A workman fired three shots, seriously wounding M. Bratiano, the Roumanian Premier. PREFERRED DEATH TO DISGRACE.

BERLIN, Dec. 22. At Laeken, Herr Kogensack, chief engineer of the cruiser Danzig, who was sentenced to three months imprisonment and cashiered in connection with the recent Kiel scandal, committed suicide. PREMIER OF KOREA ASSASSINATED. SEOUL, Dec. 22. Reuter’s Seoul correspondent states that M. Yiwantou, the Korean Premier, has been fatally stabbed. TROUBLE IN INDIA—ANOTHER .. MURDER, ... ~ , CALCUTTA, Dec. 22. Mr. A. Jackson, collector at Nasik, a seditious- centre of Bombay Presidency, who recently sentenced a man to penal servitude for life, was yesterday shot dead by a native while in a theatre. NICARAGUAN AFFAIRS. MANAGUA, Dec. 22. M. Madriz has been proclaimed President at Managua. Ex-President Zelaya entreated his countrymen to support Madriz. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. General Estrador has been victorious, capturing Recarao and Tatumbla, Zelayan strongholds. Many losses were inflicted. EXCUSING AN ERSTWHILE HERO. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Some of Dr. Cook’s friends declare him to be an object of sympathy, a victim ol hallucination. THE WARATAH. MELBOURNE, Dec. 23. The Lord Mayor presided at a. public meeting at which it was decided to start a fund for a further search for the Waratah. A sum of £2527 was promised. The State and Federal Governments will be asked to assist.