GENERAL CABLES,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2070, 23 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES,

United Press Association—Copyright •LONDON, Dec. 20. The death is announced of Sir John Stiachey, formerly member of the Council of India. The coal-heavers at Port Said karo struck. It is feared vessels using the Caml may bo considerably delayed. Lord Aldenham’s estate is valued at £703,729. Seismic records preceding the last four mining disasters suggest that the earth’s unrest was a- contributory cause.

The Daily Mail states that the extradition of Veltbeim, arrested in Paris on a charge of blackmail, has been granted.

The body of Lord Kelvin will bo buried at AVestminster Abbey oil Monday. Australians and New Zealanders residing in Alanchester are .forming an Australasian Club. The Prince of Wales has presented a shooting challenge cup for competition by the cadet corps of the schools . of the Empire. Professor Picken, of Glasgow, has been apjiointed Professor of Mathematics at Victoria College, AVellington. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company have ordered a new steamer capable of refrigerating 100,000 carcises. Cambridge University has conferred a doctorslnp of science upon Professor Carshaw, of Sydney University, in recognition of hs work of applied mathematics. The meeting of AAL and A. AlacArtliur and Co.'s Alanchester creditors approve of the liquidation proposals. Sir John Colomb, in a letter to the' Daily Graphic, contends that defence restricted to terminal points in no sense fulfils the primary principle of general defence of the Empire, which means security of the lines of communication between its several points. In the golf match at Deal Armand Alassey beat James Braid by 35 holes. Silver is at 2s 0 9-16 d. PARIS, Dec. 20. Bareness Adolphe Rothschild 'bequeathed £140,900 to Jewish charities ill Paris. BERLIN, Dec. 20. The AA’ar Office has purchased tho right to use Poulsen’s wireless telephone, by which a person is able to communicate 250 miles. Germany has agreed to submit to arbitration in the dispute between the Portuguese Government and Prince Holienlohe in connection with die proposed sanatorium at Madiera. A German syndicate, with Prince Ho_henlolie as .president, obtained a concession to build a sanatorium on conditions under which it practically controls the island. As the result of agitation by British business men, tho Aladiera concession was cancelled and the syndicate claimed damages for cancellation. AA’illiam AA r alker, deacon of an aristocratic Baptist Church, and treasurer to the New Britain (Connecticut) Savings Bank, has keen arrested. Ho was working in a Alexican mine, after absconding with £12,200 of the church and hank funds. DURBAN, Dec. 20. The AWijlieid reserves have been demobilised. Reuter states that Colonel AloKenzie collected overwhelming evidence of the rebellious intentions of certain prominent natives, also evidence relating to the instigators of Stainbank’s murder. The military destroyed 45 huts of Diniziilu’s at Natamba kraal. The Rev. Dr. Clifford, Air., Exeder-. ick Harrison, and other leaders intend to memorialise Sir H. Camp-bell-Bannerman protesting against the Natal Government’s treatment of the Zulus, and declaring that DintZulu’s past .record was one of unblemished integrity.