GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2751, 4 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

GOLD BRICK FRAUD CASE

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 2.

Cbas. Adams has been sentenced to four and a-half years’ imprisonment.

[Charles Adams, the head of the notorious gang, was arrested at New York for swindling English people of £50,000 sterling.] \

CONCORD OF CHRISTENDOM UNBROKEN.

King Edward remarked when receiving the prelates that the concord of Christendom was unbroken. Rarely in history had the idea of war seemed more repulsive, or had the desire for peace been more widely cherished throughout the Empire.

FIFTY MILITARY OFFICIALS ARRESTED. ST. PETERSBURG, March 2. Fifty military officials at Kieff and Odessa have been arrested on a charge of corruption and extortion. SERIOUS CONDITION OF OPERA SINGER. NEW YORK, March 2. Francis Alda was seized with pains while singing "Otolla’’ at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The singer was carried to an hotel in a fainting condition, and on operation for appendicitis was performed at- 3 in the morning. The patient’s condition is critical.

PREMATURE BOMB EXPLOSION GIVES CLUE.

A bomb prematurely exploded at New York, shattering a house in East 65th Street, blowing away a miscreant’s finger. A number of police identified the- fingerprints as those of a member of the Italian Black Hand Society. Detectives are searching for him.

KING EDWARD’S MOVEMENTS. (Received March 3, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, March. 3. King Edward starts on Monday. He will spend two days in Paris and will thence journey to Biarritz. THE CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY. Prince and Princess Henry concluded their visit to-day.