GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2746, 26 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE ‘ ‘BLOODLESS SURGEON.! ’

United Press Association —Copyright * LONDON, Feb. 24.

The Master of the'Rolls, in dismissing an appeal by Dr Brodie, “bloodless surgeon,” against a verdict for £IOOO damages, described him as a swindler, and ail ignorant, unscrupulous quack.

THE CHARLES,WORTH CASE. Mr Justice Darling, in passing sentence, said in the case,of fraud against Violet Cliarlesworth and her mother, the evidence showed that Mrs Charlesworth invented the story of Violet’s fortune and inoculated Violet with the idea as a young girl. Violet had ingeniously developed it by fraud upon fraud. The mother’s defence was that she always believed her daughter’s st-ory.

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE IN ENGLAND.

Prince Henry of Prussia received .a deputation from the Anglo-German Friendship Committee, including the Duke of Argyll, Lords Avebury, Lonsdale, and Courtney. Replying, Prince Henry reciprocated the sentiments of friendship, and' expressed the Kaiser’s gratification, at the committee’s aims.

NEWSPAPER MAN GETS FOUR YEARS.

PARIS, Feb. 24

. Gustave Herve has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for publishing in the “Guerre Sociale” a glorification of an “Apache” who murdered a Paris policeman.

GERMANY DISSATISFIED WITH AMERICAN TRUST.

BERLIN, Feb. 24

Dissatisfied with the Standard Oil Company’s arbitrary methods Germany has sent experts to the United States and Mexico to investigate resources for an independent supply of oil.

ANOTHER COMET

BERNE, Feb. 24

The Geneva Observatory has located a new comet. It- i s quite near Halley's comet.

ANOTHER TRANSATLANTIC CABLE.

(Received February 25, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. The Commercial Cable Company is laying another Transatlantic cable.

THE LATE MR MARLEY

The late Mr Marley’s net personality has been sworn at £7lO.

TO “RAISE THE WIND.”

PARIS, Feb. 24

The Minister of Finance’ in Ffcance i* imposing a 10 per cent tax on admissions to race meetings, producing over £50,000 yearly.

THE EX-SULTAN.

VIENNA, Feb. 24

According to the “Neue Freie Presse,” Slievket Pasha has handed over the fortune <>f fifteen million Turkish pounds, and retains an insignificant amount. Abdul Hamid is in good health. His three daughters were brought to Constantinople for the purpose of marriage.

A RISKY ROYAL VISIT.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 21. The King and Queen of Bulgaria have arrived at- St. Petersburg.

A GIGANTIC BRIBE REFUSED

NEW YORK, Feb. 25

Mr. Garup, assistant district attorney, who is in charge of the Government’s inquiry into the American Beef Trust, states that the agents of the trust, in Jersey City attempted to bribe him. with £200,000 to drop the inquiry; The statement created a- sensation.

THEATRICAL CATASTROPHE IN

PERU

LIMA, Feb. 24

The theatre at Truxillo, Peru, took fire during a cinematograph performance. The audience was panic-stric-ken, and fifty persons perished.