GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2765, 21 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

DECIMAL COINAGE. United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 18. The Associated Chambers of Commerce, by a small majority, recommended that a decimal system of coinage should be made compulsory. THE CHARTREUSE TRADE MARK. The House of Lords Appeal Committee decided that the goodwill of the Chartreuse liqueur factory did not pass to the French Judicial Liquidator, and therefore the monks now settled in England are entitled to the old trade marks, and liqueur manufactured by the French Government must bear a different mark. SHAMROCK FROM THE QUEEN. A supply of shamrock, the gift of the Queen, was presented to the Irish Guard at Aldershot. Trefoil was distributed at many London hotels and charitable institutions. THE SUFFRAGISTS. The Women’s Social and Political Union collected £11,686 during the year, and held 20.000 meetings, 294 women were arrested, 263 imprisoned, and of 110 hunger-strikers 36 were forcibly fed. “OUR GOLDEN ARGOSIES.” Sir G. Reid has accepted D. F. Alves’s gift to the Commonwealth of Gribble’s picture “Our Golden Argosies,” which was exhibited in the Royal Academy last year. The picture will possibly be hung in the Commonwealth House of Parliament.

BOYS AND GIRLS EXILED TO SIBERIA. ST. PETERSBURG, March IS. The Senate rejected an appeal of six schoolboys and girls, aged 16 and 17, belonging to the town of Possessony, and sent the whole of them to exile in Siberia for taking part in the organisation of a revolutionary association in 1907. SEARCHING FOR THE HOPE DIAMOND. NEW YORK, March 18. The “Herald’s” Singapore correspondent states that a diver explored the wreck of the French steamer La Seyne, expecting to find the famous Hope diamond, which it is believed Habib, a diamond merchant who was drowned, had on board with him. The diver recovered the ship’s safe, but it did not contain the diamond. THE DALAI LAMA. CALCUTTA, March 18. The Dalai Lama lias been paying visits to local factories, zoological gardens, and bioscope exhibitions, and is going on to Darjeeling shortly. NEW ZEALAND APPEAL CASES. (Received March 19, 5.50 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. The Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, in the New Zealand appeal cases of the Hamilton Gas Company v. the Mayor of Hamilton, and Greville v. Parker, has allowed the appeals with costs. In Hflssey - Miles, leave to appeal in forma pauperis was refused, HOLOCAUST ™ T 'PANESE FISHERMEN. Reuter’s correspondent -states that fifty fishing 1 boats were wrecked in. a storm on the east coast of Japan, and 800 men drowned. KING EDWARD PROGRESSING • SATISFACTORILY. (Received March 21, 1.15 a.m.) King Edward is progressing satisfactorily, and his 1 temperature is normal, but lie is still indoors. LADY DUDLEY IMPROVING. It is announced that Lady Dudley is now doing well.