GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2707, 11 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

LONDON TRAMWAYS

United Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 9. The London, tramway profits last year totalled £645,000. A STEAMER IN TROUBLE. The steamer Otranto encountered a Hurricane off Gibraltar. It lifted the lifeboats from' the chocks.. Several waterspouts hurst around. The storm did much damage ashorei MALARIA IN BATAVIA. Jan. 9. Five hundred persons have succumbed to malaria on plantations near Batavia. ILLEGAL TRADING. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The Federal Grand Jury, New York, returned indictments against 150 members of the Paperboard Manufacturer’s Association for forming a combination to restrict trade. x A SERIOUS OUTBREAK.

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Owing to the apathy of the municipality in connection with the typhoid epidemic, Montreal citizens have organised an emergency hospital. Lord Strathcona has given £SOO and has promised £2OOO to the sanitation fund. CANADA HAS GOOD YEAR. Canada’s revenue for nine months shows an increase of 11 million dollars compared with the same period of 1908. EXPLOITING NEW GoiNEA. LONDON, Jan. 10. (Received, January 11, 1.5 a.m.) The “Daily Mail” reports that a powerful syndicate, with a capital of a millian and a half sterling and headquarters at London, has' been formed to open up 112,000 acres leased for 99 years from the Papuan GovernmentLord Ranfurly is chairman, and special attention is to be paid to cotton growing. The syndicate has also secured leases for gold dredging.