GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3110, 5 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE JAPANESE TARIFF

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, Jan. 3.

Sir Edward Grey’s negotiations regarding the Japanese tariff are proceeding favourably. THE TUITION OF CRIMINALS.

The Home Office has requested international correspondence schools to teach selected inmates of Borstal institutions with the view of- testing the tuition of convicts by means of correspondence. THE CLAPHAM MURDER.

A man, believed to be Beron, the Russian Jew, who was found fatally stabbed, was driven with a foreigner and an English woman towards Clapham. A dispute arose as to the fare, Beron ultimately paying. BOLTON RELIEF FUND.

The Bolton relief fund totals £78,000 THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Mr. Asquith opens the Imperial Conference on May 22nd. MARRIAGE OF A DIVORCEE. Mr Arthur Ralph Stevens, barrister, has married Mrs Pretty. [Mrs Pretty recently obtained a divorce from her father’s groom, whom she had married in a fit of despair.] SUBSIDY FOR ITALIAN COLLIERS. ROME, Jan. 3.

The Government merely proposes a subsidy of twelve lmndrecl sterling to Italian shipowners transporting, at the rate of seven shillings per ton, 700,000 tons of -South Wales coal annually, being one-tenth of the coal import from Great Britain.

JAPANESE EXPORTS AXD IMPORTS. TOKIO, Jan. 3.

The Japanese exports in 1910 totalled £45.666,066 and the imports £46500,000. THE GERMAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. (Received, Jan. 5, 12.20 a.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 4. Prince Henry of Prussia presided at the Filchner Antarctic Committee. The expedition will cost £70,000, and. the obpect is mainly to determine the distribution of land and water. BUTCHERS COMPELLED TO RE-

OPEN SHOP

VIENNA, Jan. 4. The Emperor Francis Joseph by a letter to the authorities at Trieste, compelled the butchers’ shops to re-open. [The shops had been closed as a protest against the scarcitv of meat.] BERNE, Jan. 4.

The Federal Council invites the artists of the world to compete in designing a monument to commemorate the foundation of the International Telegraph Union. The prize is 2000 francs (£80), and the competition will be open till August 15tli.

INQUIRY INTO ALLEGATIONS OF TORTURE.

CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan. i

The Grand Vizier has ordered a strict in.juirv into the recent' allegations of inflection of torture, with the view ot punishing those guilty.