GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2763, 18 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. United Press Association— Copyright LONDON, March 16. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s boats s aved 644 lives from 43 vessels in 1909. ’ . AIR. LLOYD-GEORGE UNWELL. Mr. Lloyd-George is suffering from neuritis, and is taking a rest for a Aveek. COLONIAL NAVY OFFICERS. Lieutenants Flakes and Biddlecombe, colonial officers, have passed their examination in naA r igation and pilotage for the command of torpedo craft. QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S BASSET HOUNDS. Queen Alexandra exhibited her Basset hounds at Manchester ShoAA r , and secured 1 two firsts, two seconds, one reserve, and tAvo highly commended prizes. BOARD OF TRADE. The Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade includes the Hon. Hall-Jones, Lord Avebury, Lord Strathcona, Sir A. Spicer, and Mr. W. .H. Birchenough. . « LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.

The aldermen nominated for the London County Council by the Moderate party have been elected. They include Lady iSt. Helen, Messrs. Harold Cox, and Geoffrey Drage.

UNSCRUPULOUS FOREIGN COMPETITION.

British manufacturers and exporters have formed an influential association to combat unscrupulous foreign competition. They do not propose vo boycott foreign goods generally, hut only those palmed off on the public as British. They also intend to institute prosecutions against fraudulent traders. SERVITUDE FOR LIFE. John White has boon sentenced to servitude for life at Birmingham for causing his mother’s death by trying to induce her to drink cyanide of potassium, resulting in her death through fright. A DAMAGING HAT PIN. BRUSSELS, March 16. Tlie Belgium Court awarded £4OO damages to a. man who was blinded by a hat-pin in a tram car. The lady who wore the hat-pin and the tram-car company were ordered to pay half tlie damages each.

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUSINESS METHODS.

NEW YORK, March 16. ■Senator Aldrich has introduced a Bill in the Senate to establish a commission to inquire into Government business methods, with a view to reducing expenditure in the various departments. Senator Aldrich asserted that he could save £60,000,006 per annum. A MOTOR RECORD. ' (Received March 17, 8.35 p.m) NEW YORK, March 17. Barney Oldfield did a mile in seconds in a- Benz motor car at Daytona, Florida, establishing a record. [The previous revord, also made in Florida, was 281 seconds, by a Stanley steam car in January, 1906.] KING EDWARD RECOVERING. LONDON, March 17. King Edward is recovering from his slight indisposition. OBITUARY. - (Received March 17, 9.20 p.m.) The death is announced of Mr. Tom Browne, artist. [Tom, Browne, was bom at- NotTngham in 1872, and commenced black and white work at the age of 17. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897, and is well known, as the publisher of “Tom. Browne’s Comic Annual,” “The Night Side, of London,” and other works.]