GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2745, 25 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BOOM IN RUBBER

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Feb. 23.

A number of rubber company prospectuses 'are offered daily, and the public are eagerly subscribing. The price of raw rubber continues to harden.

COMPENSATION TO PUBLIC

HOUSES.

A total of £250,000 compensation has been awarded in regard to ninety-one public houses, the licenses of which were extinguished at the London session. The money is -payable out of the trade special fund.

23 KILLED BY AN AVALANCHE

An avalanche at Auresdal, Iceland, killed twenty-three persons.

THE CHARLESWORTH FRAUDS

Violet Charlesworth and her mother have been sentenced to live years each for fraud.

A GOVERNMENT GRANT FOR CAPTAIN SCOTT.

The Estimates include £20,000 for aid to Ca-ptain Scott’s Antarctic expedition.

PROJECTED OPERATIONS IN -SOMALILAND.

A sum cf £57,000 appears on the Imperial Estimates for expenditure in Somaliland owing to the Mullah’s hostility.

THE LORDS QUESTION IN SAXONY

BERLIN, Feb. 23

There is a constitutional conflict in the Lower House in Saxony because the Government refuses to grant a demand for reform of the Upper -House by admitting representatives of the great industries. A dissolution is threatened.

THE AUSXRO-GERMAN ALLIANCE

The German press welcomes Baron A-erent-hal with effusive cordiality, and refers to the past and future value of an Austro-German alliance.

MOISTURE IN BUTTER

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 23

The Danish Government has introduced a Bill prohibiting the export of butter containing more than 16 per cent, of moisture.

GALE IN NORFOLK ISLAND

NORFOLK ISLAND, Feb. 24

A strong gale from the eastward has been raging for the last two days. The glass is exceptionally low.

THE BRITISH LABOR EXCHANGE

(Received February 24, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24.

In the House of Commons Mr. Sydney Buxton stated that the Labor Exchanges had made a promising start, and had already filled several thousands of situations.

A CENSUS OF BRITISH HORSES. Mr. Haldane announced that during the last two months the police have taken a census of horses in the United Kingdom. When it was complete' the War Office would communicate it to the Territorials 7 Associations.

NEW ZEALAND CASE BEFORE PRIVY COUNCIL.

(Received February 24, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24.

In the >Privy Council case of the Hamilton New Zealand Gas Company v. the Mayor and Councillors of the Borough of Hamilton, judgment has been reserved.

AN ANGLO-GERMAN BANQUET

The King and Queen attended a banquet at the German Embassy in honor of Prince Henry of Prussia, and there was a brilliant assembly.