GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2697, 30 December 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

A PRINCELY GIFT

ijNi’Et* PIIICBB AbBOCIATION —COPYRIGHT

LONDON, Dec. 28

Lord Ashton opened the Lancaster Municipal Buildings, his gift, costing £150,000.

STATE FIGHTING MONOPOLISTS

The American Ice Company has been fined £IOOO for attempting to secure a monopoly of the production and sale of ice, contrary to the Donnelly law in Neiv York State. The “Times” New York correspondent, commenting on the case, declare s that there Avas a Fed eral Ltav against inter-State mo no do - lies, but it Avas po,werless against monopolies operating within the bounds of a single State, hence the necessity for complementary State legislation Avliereever required to assist the Congress. .

SUFFOLK FARMERS TO GROW BEET. Owing to the better soil compared with Germany a Continental offer has been accepted by several Suffolk farmers to grow beet. The foreign factory pays 17s per ton, supplies the seed gratis, and pays freight. CHURCH CONFERENCES. Two large committees of ministers and laymen of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, have inaugurated conferences to cliscti-s the possibility of a reunion. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. The Board of Trade is inquiring into the bearings and effect of- the revised international copyright convention at Berlin. It recommends that the colonies should be urged to come mio line with the' Motherland to secure a uniform law throughout the Empire. PTOMAINE POISON! N'G. Mr. Sheldon, the deposed President of the Phoenix Insurance Company, r, as died of ptomaine poisoning. RUSSIA EXPORTING STEEL. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 28. The new Russian steel industry has received its first order from aoro.nl. The Obukoff Avorks are supplying an English purchaser Avith 30,000 tons olsteel. PAYING THE BILL. The National Defence Committee of the Duma voted a credit of to pay the damages awarded to shipoAvners under the judgments <u the prize courts in connection with tJ e Russo-Japanese Avar.

BOILER EXPLOSION

NEW YORK, Dec. 28

The bursting of a locomotive boiler at ShaAvnee, Oldalioma, resulted in five men being killed and 17 injured.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT WITH METHYLATED SPIRITS.

MELBOURNE, Dec. 29

While Mrs Hooper, a resident of Benalla, Avas ironing Avith a patent iron, heated niith methylated spirits, thinking the spirits had burnt out, she proceeded to replenish the supply. A great gheet of flame shot out, igniting her clothing. Her three children Avere standing near. A boy aged 2£ years died almost at once. A girl aged eight was dreadfully burnt and succumbed in three hours. A girl aged four Avas severely burnt, hut there are hopes of her recovery. The mother, although standing over the iron, escaped.

RESIGNATION OF HILMI PASHA. (Received December 29, 9.20 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 29. Hilmi Pasha, Turkish Grand Vizier, has resigned. THE CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY. (Received December 29, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. The latest Cape to Cairo railway section, that to Wadmedani, 120 miles south of Khartoum, opens on the Ist of January. TO IMPROVE AND BEAUTIFY PARIS. PARIS, Dec. 29. The French Chamber, by 350 to 33, passed a Bill authorising a Paris loan of 36 millions sterling for the purpose of the embellishment and sanitation of the city. - ANOTHER MISSING STEAMER. HAMBURG, Dec. 29. The steamer Capua, with a crew of 23, bound from Hamburg to Genoa, is missing in the North Sea. She is regarded as lost. HOT WEATHER IN SYDNEY. (Received December 30, 12.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 29. The weather is very hot. Ninetyeight in the shade was registered in the city.