CABLE BREVITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3406, 23 December 1911, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

There have been continuous rams •throughout England. Mr G. A. Bedford has resigned the position ,of examiner of plays, to wmcJi he was appointed in 1894. The net personalty in the estate of ■Captain William Warner, formerly connected with North . Australian pastoral pursuits, has been proved at £131,478. The text of the Papal decree, cabled on .December 12, ordains that any layman summoning an ecclesiastical person in any layman’s tribunal without the permission of the ecclesiastical authority will incur excommunication. Mr McKenna, writing to Ins election agents, states that “if anybody attaches any importance to Lord Ber<*~ ford’s speeches, it is common knowledge that I refused to employ him or commend him to the position of Admiral of the Fleet.” Emily Davidson, a suffragette, has been committed for trial on a charge Of placing. lighted kerosene rags in a letter-box. ! The Vale of Doue dyers’ strike is at an end. .Mr A. Anderson, M.P. for North Ayrshire, in a speech, declared that nobody ever suggested giving- Ireland control of the Customs excise. The Government put Ireland in the same position ae British C-olumbia occupies to Canada. . , In the North Ayrshire election, Campbell, Unionist, received 7318 votes and Anderson,' Solicitor-General, 7047. Mr J. W. Jona, of Melbourne Uni-vei-sity, has been awarded a, Beit memorial fellowship of medical research of the value of £250 for three years. McJOougaH, who was imprisoned lor assaulting Mr Lloyd George, lias eaten nothing since his conviction, as a *roiost against the imposition of hard labor.