GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2711, 15 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

A TIMELY ARRIVAL. United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 13. Dr. Shiver, of Munich, in an almost exhausted condition, was holding Hermann Binner, a guide, of Zermatt, by a rope over a precipice at Breithorn for two hours, when Italian smugglers, who were crossing the pass, arrived and rescued both.

CANADA’S WELCOME TO FARMERS.

Mr. (Peterson, manager of the Canadian Pacific Irrigation and Colonisation Company, in a paper read before the Colonial Institute, on the Pacific Company’s project, announced that they were providing ready-made farms for settlers eastward of Calgary, with loans to settlers for farther improvements. DIAMONDS FOR THE GERMANS. The German Colonial Office states that the average production of diamonds in German Soutli-west Africa amounts to a value of £IOO,OOO. The rights of German companies had been assured against the greedy attacks of Cape Colony by the Goverhment proclaiming a imonopoly. There was no farther danger of the diamond fields passing into English hands.

HEADMASTERS SUPPORT MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.

By a- large majority the Headmasters of Schools Conference defeated a resolution opposed to military training hi schools. A SUCCESSFUL CONCERN. Robert Campbell and Sons have paid a dividend of 10 per cent. A SIGN OF THE TIMES, BERLIN, Jan. 13. The Hotelkeepers’ Union has issued a manifesto, imploring would-be suicides not to patronise hotels. A LUCKY AUTHOR. PARIS, Jan. 13. Edmond Rostand, a French dramatist, has realised £26,000' for the right to publish in serial form his farmyard play, “Chanticleer,” before its production on the- stage. AN EXTENSIVE FIRE. (Received January. 14, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 14.

A fire at Evan’s drapery stores, Kelburn, did £IOO,OOO damage. An electric -wire fused in a window filled with underclothing. 'Ten shops were destroyed. They were ©mpty owing to early closing. The majority of the hundred assistants were absent, and no casualties occurred.