GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2262, 6 August 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

United Pkess Association. Coptbighi LONDON, August 4. ' : The second division of the Loudon-. Territorials as encamped on Salisbury Plain. Tho strength of the battalions averages 3SS out of an establishment of 1009.

MEXICO, August 4. ■ i A great oil fire occurred ax Tampi- . j eo, (Mexico, millions of gallons of oil being burned. The fire culminated in a terrific explosion, tearing a. vast -.i hole in tho earth 1500 feet wide. ( NEW YORK, August 4. - . A 76-horse-power (Mercedes car, run- ; nine 110 miles an hour at Brook- • lands, loft the -track. It- shot- the oc- . cupants 100 ft across the river, lulling A Burke, the mechanician, and seriously ; injuring Lane, the driver. A fire at Burlington dock, Chicago, (j destroyed two elevators, containing over half a million bushels of grain. SAN FRANCISCO, August 4. A motor car’s emergency brakes at San- Francisco snapped. The car fell over a steep embankment. Mi's. McCormick and her daughter, aged 18, and (Mrs. O’Brien, her son, and were killed. Tho families are well known in San Francisco. Two of tho occupants of the ear were uninjured. TEHERAN, August 4. In consequence of Persian protests against- the Turkish Embassy at Tehoran granting an asylum to crowds of refugees, Turkey ordered the refugees - ; to leave. They refused, and still remain in the precincts of the Embassy. * . SYDNEY, August 5. •' Iho chairman of directors (of tho ■ Broken- Hill_ Proprietary, referring to the low prico of lead, said it was , I impossible to make both ends moot - j with lead below £l3 15s. It was j pretty evident on the present outlook - that- tho whole 12) per cent increase l ’ l , wages granted when lead was -at j £lB would have to come off. If tho s men were not agreeable there was no- j tiling tor it- but to close down, tho ( mine. Arriving vessels report a rough time j during the late gale. Mtuiv are still •"I sheltering. ‘ J ihe death sentence on Green; -tlio " 1 murderer of Bridge, has been -ooni--imitcd to penal servitude for life. - 5 -I he I>armors’ Conference decided to -I support the compulsory training of ' * \oung men for defence purposes. -.(A .... , MELBOURNE, August 5. j • , > Minister ior Defence intends to ; include in the Estimates a. sum to ,(s promote the breeding of the best- type A ol homing pigeons for defence pur])OS(?S. The Federal Government- lias m-o- -j nnsed action prohibiting the imports- - : | non or exportation of certain skins : ."-J ami phimago in order to prevent the ; wholesale dost met ion of birds sit-tho. j call of fashion. .. (1 When Air. Deakin was in London T •I'lr. Israel Zangwill ap)>roachcd hiin *: J ps to establishing a Jewish settlement , {] in the Conimonwoalth.stipulating that (jfXf the- settlers should have' liberty to - W make their own laws. Air. Dealdu . ',(JB pointed out that- the stipulation was' impracticable, as it would he practi- ■ eally consenting to the creation: ofautonomous State. Ho invited Mr. h M Zangwill to submit a practical scheme but bad pot tjinco heard from IflUl. is