GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3174, 21 March 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE ROYAL TOUR. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION' —COPYRIGHT. J LONDON, March 19. The King and Queen sail for India in the P. and O. steamer Medina. CATS CARRY DIPHTHERIA GERMS An outbreak of diphtheria at Oundle was caused by the introduction of germs into houses by cats, _ which had eaten infected pigeons landing from France. GERMANS ARRESTED IN FRANCE. PARIS, March 19. The police .mad© - a raid..on Montmartre, and arrested 165 undesirables, both men’ and women/ mostly Germans. Forty-five were carrying revolvers. RUSSIA’S' DEMANDS UPON CHINA TOKIO, March 19. The Japanese newspapers support Russia’s demands upon China. STORAGE DAM OPENED IN ARIZONA. NEW YORK, March 19. Mr RooseveLt has opened a great storage dam at Arizona named after himself in connection with the Salt river irrigation project. It forms o reservoir 25 mies long, capable of the irrigation of 250,000 acres. It is expected to make the valley the most fertile in America. AN ALLEGED MURDERER PROVED INNOCENT. Andrew Toth, who was sentenced at Pittsburg to imprisonment for life on a charge of murder, has been liberated after serving 20 years. He has been provd innocent of the charge. PUNISHMENT BY THE LASH. The law is being enforced at Wilmington and Delaware under which petty thieves are punished _ with the lash and embezzlers are imprisoned. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. (Received March 20, 10.30 pan.) LONDON, March 20. Sir Ernest Sliackleton paid a generous tribute to Dr. Douglas IMawson in connection with Antarctic exploration. He added that Australasia, gave the first official help to the 1907 expedition,, and he hoped that the Home Country would now show sympathy with the Australian expedition. . NOT THE WARATAH. (Received Munch 21, 12.5 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 20. The Court of Inquiry into the beaching of the steamer Palatina, which, it was suggested, had struck the wrecic of the Waratah, did: not credit the supposition. that the vessel had struck the Waratah. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. VIENNA, March 20. _ Co'unt Hedorvary declares that- it is unnecessary to propose to Italy to restrict armaments. E'aeh nation, he says, is fully convinced of the other s peaceful intentions.