GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2289, 7 September 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association, Copyright CONDON, Sept. 4. The Court of Enquiry into the cause of the wreck of the steamer Star of Japan suspended the master s certificate for three mouths. Mrs. Marshall Field, widow of Marshall Field, jun.. of Chicago, has been married in London to Baldwin, a son of Mr. Edgar and the Honorable AH’s. Drummond. _ The fire on the steamer Boon resulted in 150 tons of cargo being damaged. - , , The Shaw-Savill Company’s stear.ier Tainui has been launched at neifafct" NEW TOPIC, Sept. 4. The Now York Herald announces that a plan is taking shape to link important Islands of tin* Pacific with ■wireless telegraphy. SYDNEY, Sept. 5. The State banquet to farewell Lord Northcoto was a brilliant function. Lord Northcoto warmly advocated the promotion of immigration. The quarantine restrictions against the Canadian mail steamers have been removed. , , Obituary: Herbert Buckley, sporting writer on the Australasian, better known as “liibbleden.” BRISBANE, Sept. 5. The population of Queensland at the end of last year was 546,467, an increase of 11,354. (Received Sept. 7, 12.31 a.mj BRISBANE, Sept. 6. Lord Dudley, as a passenger, landed from the s.s. Aorangi to-day, and dined with the Governor'. He afterwards boarded TT.M.S. Powerful and sailed for Sydney, where the official reception takes plaeo.