GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2577, 4 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

WINSTON CHURCHILL’S SCHEME STARTED.

United Press Association— Copyright LONDON, Feb. 2. Eighty -Labor Exchanges have been opeued in Britain.

THE SACKVILLE PEERAGE

The Probate Court is considering Ernest Sack.ville West’s claim to a peerage. The plaintiff, produced letters as, evidence that Lord Sackville acknow-, lodged. Berita a s - his wife.

EXPLORING IN NEW GUINEA.

Another' collector is leaving to succeed Mr. Wilfrid Stalker, of the Goodfellow Natural History Expedition in ’ Dutch New Guinea. Mr. Stalker was; drowned at the Ami Islands.

BRITISH TRAITOR THANKS

FRANCE

PARIS, Feb. 2.

Krishnavarma, the Indian agitator, has donated. £2OO to the flood fund, •out of gratitude for France’s hospitality for the past three years.

AEROPLANES IN GERMANY

BERLIN, Feb. 2

One hundred and fifty aeroplanes were designed in Germany in 1909. One-half were constructed, of which twenty-five satisfactorily passed the test of first trials.

TO RETAIN SOUTH AFRICA FOR

THE WHITES

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2.

Mr Abe Bailey, at a meeting of the Union Club, Johannesburg, urged the extension of white employment in mines, and added: “The Union Government must initiate a system of closer land settlement by whites. There should be a compulsory sale to attract people to settle on smaller areas of land.

STEAMSHIP SUBSIDIES TO FIGHT

TARIFFS

KINGSTON, Feb. 2.

The Jamaican Government has informed the British and Canadian Commissioners that it was impossible to grant Canada preference, as United States retaliation, would ruin the banana industry. Jamaicans suggest that the granting of fat subsidies to a 'steamship' service would be a far better way to develop Canadian trade.

TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC

NEW YORK, Feb. 3

Boards of Aldermen in Chicago and New York are considering Bills lor making it compulsory to stamp the dates when stored upon frozen produce, so as to prevent the selling of old food.

A MISSING STEAMER

(Received February 3, 10.5 p.m.)

LONDON, Feb. 3

The British-India Company’s steamer Loodiana is missing. She left Mauritius for Colombo on the 10th January, with ten European and 70 native passengers.

A BIG COMPANY IN TROUBLE

NEW YORK, Feb. 3

A receiver has been appointed in New Jersey for the Mexican National Packing Company, whose liabilities are seven millions sterling.

FANCO-GERMAN TARIFF WAR THREATENED.

BERLIN, Feb. 3

Germany threatens to retaliate it the French Senate confirms the increased duties which are considered te be against German industry.

A LAD ELECTROCUTED

(Received February 4, 12.25 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Feb. 3

A lad named Shannon by some means came into contact with a switch in the electric power-house of the Proprietary mine at Broken Hill, and was killed instantly.