GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3441, 5 February 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

A LIBERAL VICTORY

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT] (Received February 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 3The by-election at East Edinburgh, made necessary by the death of Air Gibson, resulted in Mr Hogge (Literal) polling five thousand and sixty-four, Mr Jameson (Unionist) four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine. POWERFUL TAKES DUKE’S BODY HOME. PORT SAID, Feb. 3. The warship Powerful conveys tne Duke of Fife’s body to England. (FRENCH MILITARY REFORM. PARIS, Feb. 2. M. Millerand, Minister of War, has abolished the system of prefects receiving reports concerning army officers invented by M. Combes. The order will extirpate anti-Republican and clerical influences. The system had since developed into intolerable espionage, conducted by civil authorities, including secret denunciation of officers whose only offence was that they attended Mass.

MARRIAGE WITH SAMOAN NATIVES. BERLIN, Feb. 2,

Dr. Solf has issued an order forbidding the marriage of- Germans with natives in Samoa, Marriages already contracted are to be treated as legal, and the children thereof will be considered Germans, but the future'offspring of irregular marriages will be treated as natives. THE CAMORRA TRIALS. NAPLES, Feb. 2. The jury in the Camorra trials, accompanied' by a force of carabineers, visited Bognoli, the scene of the dinner at which the Gamorrists decided on the murder; also Torredelgreco, where the murdered man Cuocolo was found. A mob of Gamorrists endeavored to disturb the examination, but carabineers drove them off. DESTRUCTIVE STORMS. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Au earthquake at Cordova, Alaska, was followed by a storm which, swept the Alaskan coast. Stores at Cordova were wrecked, and the lighting! plant destroyed. CONVERTIBLE STEAMERS. OTTAAVA, Feb. 2.~ Mr Bosworth, vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, announces that new Pacific steamers are being built for the Oriental trade. They will be convertible into war cruisers. CABLE TOLLS. ill- Pelletier, Postmaster-General-, intends to -press the Imperial Government for further reductions in cable tolls throughout the Empire, particularly with preference to Canada. OBITUARY. CAPETOWN, Feb. 2. Major-General Scobell, aged 53 (commanding officer at Cape Colony from 1909) has died of enteric fever.