GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1782, 13 June 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

B/ telegraph, Press ABs'n, Copyright [London, Juno 11.

Six Swimmors are training to swim tho Channel, Miss Kellorman and Holbein.

Tho Daily Express states that tho battleship Africa had tho narrowest of escapes from going ashore off tho Cornish coast during a fog tho same night as tho Montagu was wrecked. Sir J as. Storling has retired from the Court of Appeal. Sir Geo. Farewell, of tho Chancery Divisoh, of tho High Court, succeeds him.

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A case of plague has at Waterloo. The patient is ratcatcher at Blackwater Bay. Mr Hazleton, DeputyCommissioner for the Bolt>mon Islands, has commenced an action' against the Crown for illegal imprisonment He states he was arrested and fined for Hying the black Hag with the skull and cross bones on bis schooner

At Consumptive Sanatorium sports at Christchurch there was a greasy pig hunt which attracted the attention of the Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The Inspector (Mr Zouch) said that the hunt was a case of cruelty, and he was informed that the pig had been poked with sticks to make it run. Miss Freeman thought that it was real cruelty. They would soon have cock fighting and bull fighting if no notice was taken. Mr McLaren wanted to know whether the Sports Committee would not have withdrawn the item from the programme if the inspector had approached them. Mr Zouch said that the Committee thought their programme was being interfered with when they were asked to withdraw the hunt. Mr Spiller was doubtful whether there was enough cruelty for tho institution of proceedings. Mr McLaren said the pig seemed to treat the matter as a joke, as he squatted down, and could not be induced to move It was decided to write to the Sports Committee expressing the Society’s regret that they should have iucluded the item in the programme.