GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2695, 28 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SIR G. H. REID TO BE \ BANQUETTED. (JfJl'lß PuKBB AbBOCIATION —COI’YBIOUT. LONDON, Dec. 26. Dr. Cockburn, at the annual meeting of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce, announced that the chamber and other Australasian bodies in London were arranging for a great banquet to Sir G. H. Reid. MARK TWAIN’S DAUGHTER DROWNED. Mark Twain’s daughter Jean has been drowned in a bath in her father’s house at Reading, during an epileptic fit. AMERICAN COPPER MINES. lib is reported, and generally believed, that the principal American copper mines are reducing their output. MR. HALDANE INDISPOSED. Mr. Haldane is suffering from inflammation. of the eyes, and is unable to conduct his election campaign. Mr. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey are assisting him. ARMY AND NAVY ESTIMATES. ' LONDON, Dec. 27. The “Times” calculates that the increase in the next naval estimates will be five millions, and in the army estimates half-a-million. A DISSOLUTION COUNCIL. King Edward holds a Dissolution Council on January 10th. CHRISTMAS IN LONDON. (Received December 27, 11.55 p.m.) The weather on Christmas Day and yesterday in London was fine and mild, Fifty thousand people were, regaled in the workhouses, and 53,000 in the hospitals. The Salvationists, fed 60,000. The “Daily Graphic” Christmas fund totalled. £23,000. EXPLORERS MURDERED IN ; ARABIA. (Received December 27, 10.5 p.m.) Marquis Benzoni, lately Italian Consular Agent at Mocha, and Herr Hermann Burkhardt, ,a German explorer, travelling with a small caravan, have been murdered by bandits at Taiz, in Arabia. '• • ; FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION, VIENNA, Dec! 27; An express with' a goods train in Bohemia;.: Six .carriages were wrecked,, and 11 people killed- and 20 injured. ■?