GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 145, 1 July 1901, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrigk t Berlin, June ’29. Dr Gentzech, second managing director of the Leipsiger Bank, has been arrested by the police as a trustee of property of most members of the Board. Paris, June 29. The Chamber of Deputies has accepted the Senate's amendments in the Religious Associations Bill. London, June 29. The Australian bowlers defeated Brand Club, Edinburgh, by six points. Hoppner's portrait of Lady Louisa Hauliers was sold at auction for fourteen . thousand guineas. A committee appointed by the directors of Samuel Allsopp and Sons, Limited, brewers, reported that after investigating the value of the properties, investments, and loans of the company, there is an estimated shortage of one million and a half. The directors advise that the ordinary capital be drastically reduced. The Citizens' Life Assurance Company has engaged Mr Price Hardy, a prominent actuary, to conduct its annual valuations in Australia. The Duke of Manchester’s creditors have accepted Pis Gd in the £. In connection with Sir Blundell Maple's recent complaints as to the worthlessness of Hungarian horses purchased by the War Office at Budapesth, the newspaper Pestr Lloyd says the British Government was defrauded to the extent ofX’27d,ooo. i The contractor actually supplied blind < horses unfit for work. ] An attempt was made to wreck the up '

arid ’down Scotch expresses near Crewe, where they puss each other at the rate of a niilr a minute. The diabolical attempt was discovered just before the trains were due. The signalman was arrested. ; New York, June'2B. ( Mr Nelson Robinson has given 102,000 ] do!) r- to Harvard University, and .Mr t !■'.■• deriek Vanderbilt and eight other mil- 1 liuiiaires 710,000 dollars to the Yale Uni- | ersitv. t