GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2137, 20 July 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright ROME, July 18. Tlio Minister of Education has directed the Prefect of Lucca to visit “Ouida,” and express tlio readiness of Italy to assist her. BOMBAY.. July 18.

Lord Lamiugton has resigned the Governorship of Bombay, owing to the state of his wife’s health. SYDNEY. July 19.

The City Coroner states that of 000 deaths reported last year a very large proportion were due directly or indirectly to excesses of alcoholic liquor.

MELBOURNE, July 18. Tho Inspector of Factories, in his annual report, states that the number of factories in existence in Victoria is 473(3, employing 67,545 hands, as compared with 4623 factories and 63,270 hands in the previous year. LONDON, July 18. Mr. Erlanger, of the firm of Ivlaw and Erlanger, states that tho theatrical syndicate is not a merger of existing organisations, but is for purposes to acquire vaudeville and legitimate theatres to be conducted on American lines. The principal London managers deny participation in the syndicate.

Sergeant Onununsden, gold medallist, joins the British rifle team for Australia. Obituary: Edward Pooley, cricketer.

CAPE COLONY, Julv IS. Cape Colony claims £6OOO sterling from Germanv for the sustenance of refugees in German South-West Africa. Germanv refuses to recognise it hut the Cane is"persisting in the claim. VIENNA, July rS. A waterspout devastated Neuwaldegg and Rernals, suburbs of Vienna. The fire brigade rescued many from the flaming wrecks of houses.

OTTAWA, July 18. A large business building in London, Ontario, collapsed, and buried ono hundred poeple in the ruins. Fifteen were killed and 12 injured, the rest being rescued.