GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2762, 17 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

TEE ROOSEVELTS. United Press Association— Copyright LONDON, March 15. Mr Roosevelt and his son, returning from the hunting expedition, were met ■bv Mrs Roosevelt at Khartoum. 1 AUSTRALIA’S NAVY. Denny and Co. launch, the second Australian destroyer on the 9th of April. Sir George Reid will christen it. MOTOR SiLEDGES' IN. SNOW. Captain Scott’s tests of motor sledges in Norway gave- ' successful results. Each pulled -a load of 19owt- on the snow. ! COLONIAL SHARES. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company shares are quoted at 100 s. The rise is due to the company building up its debentures. GENERAL FRENCH IN CANADA. OTTAWA, March IS. In the Canadian House of Commons Sir F. Borden, Minister for Defence, said that General French's visit- was only semi-official, and had no special reference to mobilisation. He would, however, he given every facility to. inspect the militia. CHOLERA IN JAVA. (Received March 18, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. There are forty deaths from cholera daih- at Batavia.

KING EDVARD’S HEALTH

Sir Janies Reid, physician-in-ordinary to tbe King, believes that King Edward caught a slight cold during his journey from London to Biarritz, but- states that there is no fever. His Majesty, as a precaution, remained indoors yesterday. THE MAINE TO BE RAISED. WASHINGTON, March 17. The House of Representatives Committee on Naval Affairs at Washington has approved of an appropriation of half a million dollars (£100,000) to raise the wreck of the battleship Mai"e at Havana. The wreck is reported to be a menace to navigation. [The U.S. battleship Maine was sunk by an explosion on the night of February loth, 1898, and 2GO men lost their lives. The occurrence was the direct cause of the Spanish-Anierican war, a s the Americans considered that she was treacherously blown up by a mine. Havana was then a Spanish port.j CANADIAN WATER POWER. OTTAWA, March 16. The Canadian House of-Commons, after 25 hour’s sitting, positively refused to pass the- St. Lawrence Power Transmission Company’s Bill, on theground that it is calculated to exploit the water power of the river for the benefit of United States speculators.