GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3190, 8 April 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

CENTENARY OF FOUNDER OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.) LONDON April 6. The centenary of the death of Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday schools, has been celebrated in London and Gloucester. SCHOOL BOARD’S APPEAL DISMISSED. The House of Lords dismissed the appeal of the Swansea School Board, which in a lower court- was condemned for its action in differentiating between a church and a board school in respect to salaries of teachers. MISTAKEN IDENTITY. A body found at Bon church. Isle of Wight, in March, is not that of Clement, son of the Earl of Leitrim, which it- was supposed- to be when found. TRIBUTE TO A DEAD JOURNALIST Sir George Reid, in a letter to the “Times,” pays a tribute to the late Mr. Moberley Bell’s services to the country. ALLEGED THEFT OF STATE DOCUMENTS. PARTS, April (5. Ronet, a cleric in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Meamou, an alleged British subject, and Pallier, his secretary, have been arrested for the removal of important documents from the Foreign Office and: communicating their contents to a foreign power. BRITISHERS DENY DEALING WITH A TRAITOR. ST. PETERSBURG, April 6. All the British attaches categorically deny dealing with Povage (an ex-sailor, who was sentenced to 12 years penal servitude for, it was alleged, supplying a British naval attache on two occasions with copies of secret flag codes and secret Russian information relating to the navies of other Powers). THE CHILIAN CENTENARY.. VALPARAISO, April 6. The British cruisers Kent and Challenger have arrived in connection with the centenary celebrations of Chilian independence.