GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2748, 1 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

REDUCTION OF COASTGUARD . • STATIONS.

United Press Association —Copyright

LONDON, Feb. 27

Several speakers at ihe Chamber of Shipping protested against- the reduction of coastguard stations, and attributed several wrecks thereto.

DIVORCE REPORTS. At- the Royal Commission on Divorce, Lord C-orell drew attention to New Zealand’s powers to forbid the publication of reports. Sir John Higham an<3 nxr Bargrave Deane denounced legal separation .

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

The Reid Newfoundland Company, railway constructors, have ' agreed t-o construct 250 miles of branch lines in Newfoundland, receiving £3OOO per mile for construction and 4000 acres per mile for operating the lines.

PIGEON SHOOTING AT MONTE CARLO.

PARIS, Feb. 27

M. Ga-lleti won the triennial pigeon shooting championship at Monte Carlo with the maximum of 25 hits. Campbell, an Australian, bit 17 out of 21 birds.

ESPIONAGE SENTENCE IN GEK-

MANY

BERLIN, Fob. 27

A merchant- at Algerbrug, East Prussia, has been sentenced to four years’ servitude for -espionage.

FRENCH WINES

(Received February 2S, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 28.

Owing to the Deputies’ opposition, M. Cochery withdrew his wine label proposals, cabled on 22nd August.

THE MINING TROUBLE IN SOUTH

WALES.

(Received February 2S, 11.25 p.m.)

Negotiations in South W ales having failed, tlie men’s representatives decided -to call a national conference of the Federation of Britain. Mr. Heppelb, on behalf of the owners, while refusing to recognise the minimum wage in the case of miners working at abnormal places, had offered a clause empowering managers to make allowances. This was rejected because it gave no locus in Courts 1 . Air. He.ppell declined to pay for small coal owing to the -oneronsness of the eight hours condition:.

RHODES SCHOLAR WORKING ON

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

In connection with an investigation into passive immunity in relation to the treatment of infectious diseases, William Ray, the Adelaide Rhodes scholar, has been elected to a Phillip Walker studentship at Oxford of £2OO a vear for three years.

GERMANY COMPETES SUCEiSSFULLY IN SHIPBUILDING.

The “Daily Mail” states that an order for a Hamburg-American 50,000ton liner, costing a million and a-half, and originally intended for Belfast, has been .placed at Hamburg: