GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3156, 28 February 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES CHARTER OLMYPIC. C UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. J LONDON, Feb. 26. Seven thousand men are working day and night at Belfast to finish the steamer Olympic- a month earlier than intended. Fifty American millionaires are chartering her for £120.000 to convoy themselves, with their wives, families. and attendants, to Southampton for the Coronation. AMERICAN RAILWAY STOCKS. A rally of the American railway stocks has been favorably reffected on the Stock Exchange. ROBBERY, AT A THEATRE. The assistant manager of the Theatre Royal at Margate was found dazed and gagged and bound on the floor of his office. It is reported that a small sum of money is missing. GERMAN CROWN PRINCE IN INDIA. Reuter's Calcutta correspondent says the Crown Prince of Germany stated he was impressed with India's records, the vigorous deeds of British-Indian soldiers, and the remarkable administration of an enormous territory by so few officials. THE MAJOR EXCOMMUNICATION. ROME, Feb. 26. The Pope lias inflicted the major excommunication on the Rev. Beale and Rev e Ho war th, of Nottingham, who were consecrated by Bishop Mathew, of the Old Catholics. STREET MURDER IN TIFLIS. Two unknown miscreants murdered a man named Giss, a Belgian, who was assistant manager of tramways, in one of ti e streets. SMALL-POX SPREADING IN LONDON. (Received Feb. 27. 10.10 p in.) LONDON, Feb. 27. Thirteen additional cases of smallpox are reported, including one at-Bethnal Green. INFLUENZA AMONG CATS. A curious influenza epidemic is raging among cats in the South of England. They recover under veterinary surgeon's treatment, but otherwise succumb wholesale. Sixteen died on one farm in Kent. MAGNIFICENT BEQUESTS FOR SCIENCE. PARIS, Feb. 27.; M. Loatreuil, a French contractor in Russia and a peasant’s son, has bequeathed £IOO,OOO to the Academy of Sciences, £4OOO to the Pasteur Institute and £4OOO for scientific research. SERVIAN EX-MINISTERS PROSECUTED FOR CORRUPTION. SOFIA, Feb. 27. The Sobranje has decided to send to trial by a special State tribunal M. Petkoff ex-President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, and General Savoff, an ex-Minister, for violating the laws for their personal advantage and to tlie detriment of the State treasury. RETURNING RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS STOPPED. ‘ THE HAGUE, reb. 27. The authorities at Olden-zool allowed 300 Austrians returning from New York to freely proceed, but stopped 60 Russians because the shipping agent declined to deposit £sliu as security.