GENERAL CABLE, NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3463, 1 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE, NEWS.

THE DEADLY HATPIN. A NEW BY-LAW. f UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT] SYDNEY, Feb. 29. A City Council by-law lias been gazetted prohibiting the wearing of hatpins protruding in sucl) a way as to he a source of danger. A penalty of £lO is provided. AUSTRALIA’S NAVY. SYDNEY, Feb. 29. The Government lias cabled to England with the object of securing, four experts in connection with the building of warships. They will include a naval architect. DR. PEACOCK ACQUITTED. MELBOURNE, Feb. 28. Dr Peacock has .'been acquitted of murdering the girl Davies. £IO,OOO IN JEWELLERY STOLEN. VIENNA, Feb- 28. Leovi, a jeweller, travelling on the Paris express, was robbed of £IO,OOO worth of pearls and diamonds, which were fastened inside his pocket. MURDER IN A TRAIN. PARIS, ' Feb. 28. A man named Andre Remartz, a butcher, was discovered in a train at Clialons-sur-Saone with thirty knife wounds in him. The murderer had alighted at Chalons, escaping with £l6O. AMERICAN RAILWAY DEATH RATE. A CONSIDERABLE DECREASE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. _ The remarkable death-rate on American railways is exemplified by the figures for the months of July, August, and September last-. Two hundred and one persons were killed and 4000 injured. The death-rate shows a considerable decrease on the corresponding period of 1910.

AN INSURANCE CASE. LONDON, Feb. 28. , The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Income' Tax Commissioners in the case against the London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company, that interest earned abroad, though not remitted to the head office, is taxable as profits of the company. THE SUNKEN SUBMARINE. LONDON, Feb. 28. The Italian Salvage Company has failed in its attempts to raise the sunken British submarine A 3. The Admiralty lias taken over the salvage operations. MURDER BY BLACKS. PERTH. Feb. 29. The police are investigating the murder of an aboriginal named Jimmy by three other natives. Jealous of Jimmy’s attention to a gin they lured him into the bush and killed him with a tomahawk and spears. They then dragged the body about the camp. A DISASTROUS COLLISION. PORTUGUESE GUNBOAT SUNK. LISBON, Feb. 28. The gunboat Faro sank at Algarva after a collision with a merchantman. Six persons, including the commander, were drowned. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. ADMINISTRATORS’ INTENTIONS. SYDNEY, Feb. 29. ■ Professor Gilrutb, the newly-appoint-ed Administrator of the Northern Territory, in an interview, said that he first "intended to demonstrate what could be profitably produced in the territory. Then lie would secure the right kind of immigrants. He will spare no effort to prove that the White Australia policy is sound and capable of full fruition.