GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2744, 24 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE FRANKLIN FRAUDS.

United Press Association —Copyright

LONDON, Feb. 22. Franklin’s frauds are estimated at £200,000.

SCIENTIFIC HONORS

The Liverpool School of Tropical Aledicine has awarded the Alary Kingsley medals to Sir William AlacGregor for services while Governor of Lagos, and to Professor Breuil for scientific contributions.

CHOPIN’S CENTENARY. English and Continental musical circles are celebrating to-day the centennary of Chopin’s birth.

BUILDING UP , CANADA

Reuter’s Montreal correspondent states that immigration is starting as usual. According to the bookings all the boats will henceforth be crowded mostly with a good clais of artisans and farm-hands.

STRIKE BY. CANE CUTTERS IN

GUADELOUPE

Twenty thousand sugar cane cutters in Guadeloupe are striking. They refused an offer of a a increase of 33 per cent in wages. There lias been some incendiarism. The troops are powerless.

SUNDAY’S GALE IN BRITAIN

The official record of Sunday’s gale shows that the velocity was 103 miles an hour in Britain.

THE CAIRO ASSASSINATION

Lord Cromer, in a letter, pays a high tribute to the fate Boutros Pasha as a most capable Minister and true patriot. A fouler crime had never been committed.

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

BERLIN, Feb. 22

Importance is attached to Baron Aerenthal’s present official visit to Berlin.

GOETHE’S “WILHELM ME ASTER.”

BERNE, Feb. 22

The manuscript of the original version of Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister”. has been discovered at Zurich. It contains much hitherto unknown material.

CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES

ATHENS, Feb. 22

For economical reasons, the Greek A 1 misters in all capitals except Constantinople have been recalled and matters left in the hands of Charges H’Affaires.

A THEATRICAL CATASTROPHE

NEW YORK, Feb. .22

The floor of a, cinematograph .theatre at Paten, Pennsylvania, collapsed. Five hundred persons were thrown the basement and several were killed.

TROUBLE IN ABDUL’S HAREM. (Received February. 23, 10.40 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 23. Three of the ex-Sultan’s daughters and some of Abdurrahman’s,- also eight ladies* of the harem, have returned to Constantinople. It is understood that Abdul’s condition rendered their remaining at Salonika impossible.