CENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2718, 25 January 1910, Page 5

CENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DISHONEST STEWARDS

United Puess Abbociation— Copyuiout. LONDON, Jan. 23. Reuter’s correspondent states that 38 of the kitchen and stewards’ staff aboard the Kaiserin Augusta, of the Hamburg Amerika line, have been arrested on charges of stealing store provisions. A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE SHOCK PARIS, Jan. 23. A. most violent earthquake shock record has been registered in 'Paris, also in Tortosa. and Brussels. It was of long duration.' It is believed that the centre was in Caucasus or Armenia.

A. PECULIAR DISASTER. BRUSSELS, Jan. 23 A building at Charleroi collapsed ■upon a passing train, and six persons were killed. TYRANNY IN RUSSIA. ’ ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 23. Twenty-four persons have been arrested for attending an anti-alcohol congress at St. Petersburg. A SENTENCE OF DEATH. Veskrcsenski has been sentenced ~to death for the murder of Colonel Karpoff, chief of the detective police at St. Petersburg. PROTEST AGAINST LIBRARY CENSORSHIP. (Received January 24, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 24. Mary Gaunt protests against the libraries’ censorship damning her new West African novel, “The Uncounted Cost.”. The “Observer” justifies her protest, and adds, “This elephantine 'censorship is farcical.” THE NEW COMET. The new comet has been plainly seen in many parts of England, Southern 'Europe, and Egypt. The Cambridge Observatory states that it passed its perihelion on the 17th, two- million miles from the sun. Tho tail is six degrees long; and curved to the east. ' A PERFORMANCE BANNED. The censor banned the performance of Strauss’ “Salome” at Coveut.Garden. BADEN-POWELL RESIGNING. General Baden-Powell is resigning from the army in order to devote his "time to the Boy Scouts movement.