GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2722, 29 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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United I’uitsa Association —Coi’vuioiit. LONDON, Jan. 27. Yorke’s art collection, valued at £400,000, including a Persian carpet worth £25,000, is being sold by auction for the benefit of the creditors. CARING FOR THE KING. f Acting under advice King Edward goes to Biarritz on March 3rd to escape the trying winds. BRITISH NAVAL GUNNERY. The naval gunnery results published m the “Times” show that in 1909 the whole fleet scored 5108 hits and 4330 misses. The 12in. and lOin guns have increased the average hits per gun per minute from .40 to .63 since 1907. The China squadron was first, scoring 63 points. The third division of the Home fleet was second, with 49 points, the Australian division sixth, with 40 points; the Encounter scoring 62 compared to the King Alfred’s 79. PRINCE LOUISE FAILS IN COURT CASE. PARIS, Jan. 28. The French court ordered the removal of the seals from Baroness Vaughan’s chateau at Balmcourt, Princess Louise of Belgium being condemned to pay the costs of- the action.

TO DESTROY AIRSHIPS, BERLIN, Jan. 27. Ivrupps have constructed two guns for the destruction of airships, one a 74-centimetre, mounted in a motor car, and the other 104-centimetre for use on warships. Both fire a shell, discharging a trail of luminous smoke, whereby the projectile’s course is followed. The shells explode gas. CANADIAN PREMIER VOICES INDEPENDENT SENTIMENT'S. OTTAWA, Jan. 27. Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s critics severely comment on his speech at Toronto on the sth, when he said, “We are under the suzerainty of the King of England, and bow the knee to him, but the King has nc more rights over us than are allowed by the Canadian Parliament. This' is every true, loyal Britisher’s view of the relations to the throne ” _ HUGE FINANCING. NEW YORK, Jan. 27. The Utah Copper Company, Boston, and the Nevada Copper Company have now merged, involving £20,000.000 sterling.

A SUCCESSFUL BOYCOTT. Food prices in America are declining in consequence of the spread of the public boycott against the monopolies of products. AN UNSYMPATHETIC COMMITTEE CAPETOWN, Jan. 27. The Budget Committee of the Reichstag having ignored the Burgomaster of Luederitz Bay’s petition for an inquiry into the diamond concessions, hundreds of colonists held a torchlight procession in honor of the burgomaster and the Governor. The Reichstag Committee, by 15 to 13, rejected a proposal for the ratification of the commercial treaty with Portugal.

THE NEW COMET. (Received January 28, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 28. Cambridge Observatory states that the comet’s nucleus continues vivid. The tail has greatly increased, and is now 16 degrees, with a curve towards Pegasus.