GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2370, 10 December 1908, Page 5

GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

A SUCCESSFUL NEW ZEALAND SCHOLAR.

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Mr. S. M. Ziman, of Auckland, lias been elected to the honorary mathematical scholarship of Balliol College. [Mr. Ziman was the New Zealand Rhodes scholar last year.]

EXPLOSION IN A CARTRIDGE FACTORY. CALCUTTA, Dec. 8. An accidental explosion in a cartridge fafctorv at Dumdum, Bengal, killed 11 natives and injured 26.

THE MILTON TERCENTENARY

(Received Dec. 9, 9.20 p.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 9

An exhibition of Miltonia and the inauguration of the British Academy with special lectures marked the opening of the Milton tercentenary in London yesterday.

THE BARNATO BEQUESTS

(Received Dec. 9, 9.20 p.in.)

LONDON. Dec. 9

Henry Isaac Barnato bequeathed his daughter, Mrs. Asher, one million sterling. His bequests of a quarter of ia, million, devoted to hospitals and other charities, are in memory of Barney Barnato and Woolf Joel.

A PROPOSED SHIPPING LINE

(Received Dec. 10, 12.40 a.m.)

LONDON, Doc. 9

The Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping unanimously recommended a direct line of freight steamers to Australia with refrigerating accommodation. The president said lie understood that tho Australian Government was inclined to assist tiny steamship company prepared to run such a line.

ROYAL BENEFICENCE

(Received Dec. 10, 12.40 a.m.)

BERLIN, Dec. 9

The Crown Princess of Germany secretly sold a diamond tiara, worth £SOOO, ■ and gave tho proceeds to the widwos 'and orphans of tho men who perished in the Radbod mining disaster.

A JOURNALISTS’ STRIKE.

(Received Dec. 10, 12.40 a.m.)

PERTH, Dec. 9

The old trouble over the accommodation for the press at tho Parlitrment House has led to a recurrence of the journalists’ strike. LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY. (Received Dec. 10, 12.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 9. Alderman Taylor has been elected Lord Mayor of Sydney.