GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2703, 6 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

MINERS FAIL TO FIND WORK

United Puess Association— Copyiiioiit. LONDON, Jan. 4. Upwards of 20,000 miners are now idle in Northumberland and Durham.

SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS. Of 280 members of the Stafford branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, only 28 participated in the ballot regarding a membership levy of a shilling for a Parliamentary propaganda. Three were in favor and 25 against th-o proposal. UNHAPPY GERMANS. BERLIN, Jan. 4. There were twenty suicides and attempted suicides in Berlin in two days. TREACHEROUS SKATING RINK. There were many accidents on the ice in Germany during the New Year festivals. Twelve persons were ‘drowned. RUSSIA STILL DISORGANISED. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 4. The Russian Admiralty continues in a disorganised condition. The four proposed Dreadnoughts cannot be completed in due time without recourse to foreign aid, and the Government works, which undertook to supply armor in two years, find it impossible to deliver the turrets and plates for a decade. grecia’n’politics. "ATHENS, Jan. 4. Prior to the resignation of the Greek Minister of the Interior, the forc-e was kept under arms for three days by Colonel Sorbas. The crisis is now over, and the troops have been dismissed. TAMMANY MAYOR’S POLICY. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Of the first list of nine municipal officers issued by the Mayor of New York, there is only one regular Tanunanyite mentioned. A HUGE STRUCTURE. The Manhattan bridge, the fourth over the East river, costing £5,260,000 has been opened. PRUSSIAN SAVINGS BANK RETURNS. (Received; January 5, 9.30 p.m.) BRESLAU, Jan. 5. Tardy statistics of the year 1908 show that savings bank deposits in Prussia totalled £478,650,000 sterling, and that the excess of deposits over withdrawals was six millions sterling. The deposits were chiefly in the Rhine province and Westphalia.