GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2365, 4 December 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

„ United. Press Association. Copyright

MOTOR MANSLAUGHTER

LONDON, Dec. 2

Dolloy, a eliaffeur, was convicted at Guildford of the manslaughter of a boy aged twelve months. Tho prisoner is to be deported.

THE CLYDE GRAVING DOCK. ■*> The new graving dock, building at Clyde, will take the largest battleships.

QUEENSLAND MAIL SERVICE

It is reported that the British-ludia and the Federal-Houlder and Shire lines of steamships have arrived at an agreement in connection with the new direct Queensland mail service.

PENNY POSTAGE

(Received Dec. 3, 9 p.m.)

Penny letter postage between Germany and the United States begins in Januarv.

LADY SYDENHAM CLARKE ILL

Lady Sydenham Clarke is suffering from pneumonia. Her condition is very serious.

[Lady Clarke is wife of Sir George Sydenham Clarke, who was Governor of Victoria, 1901-1904.]

GERMAN AFRICA—A PATROL ATTACKED.

Hostile tribes attacked a patrol of German troops in the Cameroons, killing four, including one officer, and wounding ten.

INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL

PRETORIA, Dec. 2

Eight thousand out of ten thousand Indians in the Transvaal have registered. One thousand applications for registration were rejected. The restwill be prosecuted.

A TRAMCAR ROBBED

NEW YORK, Dec. 2

Four armed men and three women boarded a tramcar in the heart of New York at three o’clock in the morning. They murderously assaulted the conductor, and robbed 65 passengers of jewellery and money, and then decamped.

. AAIERICAN CIVIL . SERVICE. President Roosevelt has made 15,500 ■fourth-class suli-posti pasters permianent officers, removing them from political influence.

A NEW RELIGIOUS SECT

SYDNEY, Dec. 3

The yacht Coronet lias sailed, it is believed, for Alelbourne. It transpires those on board belong to an American religious body known as the “Holy Ghost and Us.’’ of which Air. Sand ford, owner of the Coronet, is founder.

THE BISLEY MEETING. Owing to the inability to raise funds there will bo aio Commonwealth team sent to Bisley this year.

KAURI TIAIBER COAIPANY

Hie Sydney business of the Kauri Timber Company has been purchased by Hudson and Sons, of Sydney.

CO AIMERGIAL-—HIDES

(Received Dec. 3, 11.35 p.m.)

MELBOURNE, Dec. 3

Hides: Light are id to id higher; other sorts’ are- firm; the supply is small.

THE SUBTLE SHAH—DISCLAIMS

RESPONSIBILITY

TEHERAN, Dec. 3

The Shah disclaims responsibility for the placarding of his proclamation/ and promises to adhere to the pledges he> has already given.