CABLE BREVITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3399, 14 December 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Dean of Westminster lias offered interment for the remains of Sir Joseph Homeker in the Abbey on condition that the. remains are previously cremated. ...

The English Post Office is issuing home safes in connection with the Savings Bank. Twenty thousand were issued in London alone in two days. Mr. Lewis Harcourt, replying to Mr. Newdegate, Unionist member for Tamworth, said be was not aware that, a member of the Commonwealth Parliament was at Washington discussing the preliminaries for reciprocity. All the Knola’s crew have landed at Singapore. • The Abor expedition occupied Kebang unopposed. Tlie capture is damaging tlie prestige of the Kebang clan, future operations will probably be of a guerilla nature without organised resistance. Oxford defeated Cambridge at Rugby football by two goals and three tries to nil. Mr. Quinlan has engaged Agnes Nieliolls for Wagnerian roles in Australia.. Tlie elections m Ontario resulted in Whitney (Government) being returned to power with an overwhelming majority. The net gain to the Liberals was six seats, but the Conservatives’ majority is 60. The chief election plank was a hydro-electric system throughout tho province. Queen Ena, of Spain, lias been accouched of a daughter. The steamer Efnpress of China has been refloated, states a Tokio message.