GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2771, 29 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

INTERESTING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. United Press Association— Copyright PARIS, March 37. An ancient Gallic cemetery has been discovered near Rheirns, containing some magnificent vases, bowls and bracelets. ' It is considered to be from two to three thousand years old. PURIFYING THE FRENCH ARMY. The Senate has passed a Bill excluding criminal convicts from the home -army. THE GERMAN NAVY. BERLIN, March 27. The -Howaldt works, of Kiel, have contracted for the first of the three battleships of the 1910 German programme. MR. ROOSEVELT IN EGYPT. CAIRO, March 27. Mr Roosevelt received 400 Americans here, and lunched with the Khedive. A RUSSIAN TRAGEDY. ST. PETERSBURG, March 27. One hundred and . fifty peasants died at- Ardatoff from eating bad fisli bought from an itinerant- salesman. THE VENICE MURDER TRIAL. ROME, March 27. A prison warder at Venice has alleged that Countess Tarnowska, now being tried for murder, offered his wife £I2OO to connive at her escape. , SHACKLETON IN AMERICA. ; WASHINGTON, March 27. The President received Sir Ernest Shaekleton at the, White House. AMERICAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS The Social Democratic Conference at Carrington resolved by a large majority that the members of the party should join the trade unions inorder to conduct a vigorous Socialistic campaign. The amalgamation is advocated of all unions on. the basis of class, not craft. THE AMERICAN ATLANTIC FLEET The American Atlantic battleship fleet will visit the Mediterranean in November, and then proceed to Cuba. A REBATES PROSECUTION. Gipps, agent of the Holland-Ameri-can line at Now York, who was arrested in November for violation of the inter-State law, admitted receiving rebates, and .was, fined 2000 dollars on each of three counts. / MR. BALFOUR. (Received March 29, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 20. Mr Balfour is in London, greatly improved in health. TURKO-BULGAR lAN AGREEMENT. SOFIA, March 28. King Ferdinand’s Ministers, in a series of interviews at Constantinople, reached complete agreement regarding, firstly, a commercial treaty; secondly, delimitation of undefined points on the frontier; and, further, linking Bulgarian and Turkish railways. -