GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2709, 13 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE PERILS OF POLITICS. United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Jan. 11. While motoring near Cardiff, Mr. l\larley Samson, a Unionist candidate, was shot at, the bullet penetrating the wind-screen and whizzing past his head. FOURTH SEA LORD. Captain Charles Madden has been appointed fourth Sea Lord, vice Admiral Vwnsloe, who will shortly be given the chief command in China. TO ENCOURAGE THRIFT. The British Savings Bank is introducing hardened steel money boxes, whereof the post offices will keep the keys. The boxes will be periodically opened after the manner of the homesafes system in America, where it has resulted in the saving of £100,000,000 during the last decade. ANTWERP WOOL SALES. 1 ANTWERP, Jan. 12. Bidding at the Antwerp wool sales was animated. There was a large attendance of English buyers. Merinos advanced five centimes (fd). Crossbreds were in lively demand and realised fully fifteen centimes (lid) above November rates. 2,648 bales were offered and 1564 sold.

A BANKER’S SUICIDE. VIENNA, Jan. 11. A Russian banker has hanged himself in Austria. His pockets contained 150,000 pound notes, also securities. AN EXPENSIVE “BOOM.” NEW YORK, Jan. 11. ■Some of the American political campaigning methods have been exposed in a case wherein V illiam Clark, a wellknown local journalist, is suing Lewis Clianler, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of New York, for £4OOO for booming Chanler for the Presidency.

WONDERS' OF MODERN IN-

VENTION

The Opera House is inaugurating wireless telephones, employing dictographs and radiophones, enabling music to be heard over a distance of 75 miles.