CABLE BREVITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3430, 23 January 1912, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The King of Italy gave a banquet to the German Minister for Foreign Aifairs.

The Italian newspapers announce the discovery of archives indicating where ancient Popes concealed their treasure. A search is being made in the Villa Gondolfi.

The Young Men’s Christian Association fund has reached £52,156. 'fhe balance-sheet of the Union Bank of Australia for the half-year to August- 31, shows deposits to be £22,576,641; cash investments and remittances, £10,605,995; bills discounted and advances, £16,454,910. AL. Verrop aeroplaned with two passengers at Sen 1 is, France, to a height of :l"‘2fift —a world’s record.

H.M.C.S. Iris experienced rough weather over the final stages of her journey. and was unable to quite finish the cable survey.

The last‘Sydney Eight-hour Demonstration yielded a. profit of over £BOOO. A man, aged 70, and a woman have betm arrested at Felmouth, England on board the yacht Excelsior for frauds committed in Paris, bv inducing people from i;ill parts to invest three million francs on the promise of the return of one per cent daily. The male prisoner, who has several aliases, including ■•Wells,” declares that he thrice broke the bank at Monte Carlo. It is officially nmiounjbod that iSir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, Governor of Victoria, who was recently raise] to the peerage, has been appointed Governor of Bengal.

Max Hdst, a native of Schwerin, has been sentenced to four years’ penal servitude at Leipzig for offering to Russia, Franco and Britain plans of the Kiel fortifications. Ratifications have been exchanged of the Anglo-German treaty for the extradition of criminals between Germany and Various Britßli protectorates in. Africa, and it becomes operative on March 20.