GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2708, 12 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

: UNEMPLOYMENT IN ENGLAND. [Jniticd Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 10. One hundred thousand Northumberland and Durban miners arc idle. Throe thousand have been persuaded to resume, work. AFTER THE SOUTH POLE. It is suggested that ,Mr. Hermon Bumpies, director of the Aluseum of Natural History in New York, that the proposed American expedition approach the Antarctic, not'by Sir E. Shackleton’s route, but -by Coode Island or AVilke’s Land. ’Hie “Daily Telegraph’s’’ correspondent believes that the average American is bored with Polar research, and that if an expedition starts it will take the easiest route. THE PORT OF AIELBOURNE.. Air. Davidson, Inspector of Publio Works in Victoria, and Sir .William Alatthews have,formulated a scheme for dealing with the passenger and cargo traffic at the port of Melbourne. Colonel Sir G. Raban has arranged a scheme for a graving dock at Alelbourne. A BODY RECOVERED. A search for two Edinburgh medical gentlemen who went out duck-shooting on the Forth resulted in the recovery of the body of Dr. R. AI. Nicholson, whose father resides at Benalla, Yictoria. TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC. VIENNA, Jan. 10. The police raided a well-known publishing house and confiscated 30,000 erotic publications, valued at £6OOO. BIG FIRE AT ST. PETERSBURG. ‘ S)T. PETERSBURG, Jan. 10. The palace of the Grand Duke Niehola Nicboliavitch, at St. Petersburg, is on fire. Priceless collections of dia-mond-studded armour and porcelain have been destroyed. AN AGGRESSIVE ROUGH. PARIS, Jan. 10. The police arrested an “Apache” wearing leather hands studded with sharp spikes and razors. The “Apache” used a long knife and a revolver. He killed one policeman, and five others had >to be taken to the hospital. JAPAN ON GERMANY. TOKIO, Jan. 10. The Japanese press unanimously condemn the neutralisation of Manchurian railways, and declare that there is no justification for interference- with the Portsmouth treaty. Germany is criticised for enjoying railway and mining privileges at Shantung, yet seeking to deprive Russia and Japan of privileges in Manchuria. CRIMINALS IN THE FRENCH ARMY. (Received January 11, 10.15 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 11. The “Apache” murder has directed attention to the fact that 11,000 men in the French army have undergone sentences prior to enlistment. The newspapers denounce the system whereby criminals contaminate the barracks and demand that the hooligans he .relegated to African corps. AMERICAN JUDGE’S WISE DECISION. NEAV YORK, Jan. 11. Judge Birrell, in a Court, has decided that a landlord’s refusal to renew a tenant’s lease owing to the birth of a child is illegal, because it promoted race suicide. The verdict has encouraged other tenants to object to the clause in their leases not allowing children in flats.