GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2772, 30 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

BRITISH PROTECTION

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 28.

Tlie Bhutan treaty enables the ruler to govern without fear of Chinese aggression.

A PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL

The Privy Council allowed the appeal of Greville versus Parker with costs.

MENELIK ALLEGED TO BE DEAD

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent mentions a rumor from a well-informed private source that King Menelik lias been lying dead several days in his room.

A MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINATION

An unknown assassin, pretending to be a telegraphic messenger, visited and Shot Charlois, an astronomer, at the observatory, Monte Grosso, Nice, dead.

l “ BREAD CAST ON THE WATERS.”

A year ago one Robert Lightburn, a resident of Rookliope, near Durham, received an anonymous request from Australia to search for a certain marriage certificate. He has now received '£looo' for his services. It appears that a young woman emigrated to Melbourne sixty years ago, and there married the son of her wealthy employer, under a nickname. A threatened lawsuit over her father-in-law’s money necessitated proof that the nick, name was not the woman’s real name.

LIQUID REFRESHMENT IN GERMANY. BERLIN, March 28. Germany’s drink bill is estimated at £145,000,000, which is twice the combined cost of the army and navy, and five times that of the cost of education. INDIAN EMIGRATION. CALCUTTA, March 28. There is a consensus of opinion here that the prohibition of emigration will he enforced against Natal unless it ameliorates the treatment of free Indians. THE ASSOCIATE-EDITOR OF THE “OUTLOOK.” CAIRO, March 28. Mr. Roosevelt gave a stirring address to the native journalists of Cairo on their duties and responsibilities. BANK CLERK GAMBLES; THEN ROBS. WASHINGTON, March 28. Coleman, a bank clerk earning £l2O a year, has been arrested at Cambridge,, Massachusetts, for embezzling £SOOO. He admits gambling at faro, and that, not understanding the game he entrusted the money to a confederate, who robbed him.

BURGLARS’ RICH HAUL. (Received, March 29, 9.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 29. Burglars stole £9OOO from the post office at Richmond, Virginia. COMPULSORY REDUCTION IN RAILWAY RATES. NEW YORK, March 29. The Inter-State Commerce Commission has ordered the reduction from 23 cents to 21A cents per cwt. of the freight rates on flour coining from Minneapolis to New York. Twentythree railroads are affected. AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. VIENNA, March 29. Pour parlers are in progress relative to the Aust-rian-Hungarian heir presumptive’s visit to Constantinople. CANNIBALISM IN WEST AFRICA. ' (Received, March -30, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 29. Troubles are reported from the French Ivory Coast. Native raiders from the hinterland attacked the factories, killed 34 Frenchmen, and ate one..