GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2755, 9 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

A JOCKEY’S FEES.

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 7.

The “Telegraph” states that the jockey Maker has been offered £3OOO to ride Lemberg. It is rumored that he receives £SOOO if Neal Gow wins the Derby. COLLECTION OF CHINESE PAINTINGS. The British Museum, for £9OOO, pur-, chased a remarkable collection of Chinese paintings from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries. THEFT OF £9OOO WORTH OF BONDS. Two men have been arrested in London on a charge of blowing up the safe in a bank at Liege, and stealing £9OOO worth of bonds. AN OPERATIC TREAT FOR THE COLONIES. The “Daily Express” says that Beecham and Quinliu, producers of “Electra” at the Covent Garden, propose to give a season’s opera in Australasia, America, and South Africa. They are sending a representative to Australia to arrange for the co-operation of a local impresario. KING EDWARD’S HOSPITAL FUND. King Edward’s Hospital Fund receipts for 1909, including additions to capital, totalled £258,926. The expenditure was £153,000'. The total distrihuted'in thirteen years was £1,134,916. INFLUENZA IN LONDON. There has been a recrudescence of influenza in London. There Avere 125 deaths in three Aveeks) 38 aboA'e the previOAis three Aveeks. A FRAUDULENT COLLECTION. _ BERLIN, March 7. Experts have pronounced the famous Japanese collection at the; Weimar museum to be largely fraudulent. The Grand Duke has ordered it to be sold by auction. TRIAL OF A IST. ST. PETERSBURG, March 7. TchaikoAvski, for Avliom bail Avas raised ill England and America, is being tried in camera at St. Petersburg for

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revolutionary propaganda in many parts of Russia and a speech in Finland advocating the assassination of the Tsar.

THE EARTH’S RADIUS

NEW YORK, March 7

The United State’s Geodetic Survey Department announces that the equitorial radius of the earth is 6,378,000 metres. The United State’s Geodetic Survey Department adds: “The earth’s crust extends for 75 miles, when liquid pressure begins.”

A BOMB OUTRAGE

MADRID, March 7. A bomb was thrown into a priest’s dining-room, where the priests were at a dinner, celebrating clerical victories at the municipal election, in Noceda, Spain. The bomb killed two persons. OUTBREAK OF PRISONERS. Forty prisoners at Cartagena seized and disarmed the sleeping warders. They after attempted to escape, but were fired on by troops, and were subsequently overawed. SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. PRETORIA, March 7. The Pretoria branch of the Hetvolk has resolved that the head of the committee be empowered to seek amalgamation with other political organisations with a view to the Hetvolk covering the whole Union. AN EMINENT TURK. (Received March 8, 5 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. The Balkan Committee luncheoned with Enver Bey, whom Mr. Herbert Samuel described as Turkey’s Garibaldi, who drew the sword not for conquest, but won real peace for the people. LONDON COUNTY ELECTIONS. (Received March 8, 10.15 p.m) LONDON, March 8. The final recount for Finsbury resulted in the Moderate candidate being elected. HONORING A NAVAL HERO. A service was held in St. Paul’s in commemoration of Admiral Collingwood’s death. His centenary was also celebrated at the Catnedral in Newcastle, his birthplace. THE THIBETAN TROUBLE. China has given Britain an assurance regarding the administration and the religious question in Thibet. A ROYAL TOUR. • The Prince and Princess of Wales travel to South Africa on the West Coast route in a Union Castle liner, with an escort warship. Departing at the end of August, they will disembark at Durban. QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL. In the House of Commons, Mr. Haroourt said he anticipated Ithat the Queen Victoria memorial would be completed within a year. This was an unexampled rate of progress in a work of such magnitude. WESTRALIAN PREMIER ON TOUR, ROME, March 8. Mr. Moore, the Wcstralian Premier, fl-ho is visiting Rome, had an audience with King Emanuel. He also interviewed the Premier and Foreign Minister, and discussed the possibility of a market in Italy for Westralian timber, meat and products. OBITUARY. NEW YORK, March 8. Obituary: Ex-Senator Platt, a Neu York Republican boss.