GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2410, 27 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

EAIITHQ UAIvE RECORDS. . United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Jan. 25. An earthquake has been registered at Bombay, Smyrna, and Capetown. It is conjectured that, it was the same disturbance as that in Central Asia.

THE KAISER-LONGS FOR A QUIET LIFE. BERLIN, Jan. 25. The Kaiser requests the press to refrain from publishing further news of his doings, 'as he desires to livo as quiet a life iis possible. RUSSIAN GENERAL DISGRACED. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. General Brutus Alexieff has been dismissed from the army, and fined ten thousand roubles for receiving £950 from British gumnakers during the Japanese war. BEATIFICATION OF JOAN OF ARC. v ROME, Jan. 25. His Holiness the Pope completed the beatification of Joan of Arc in the presence of the congregation of rites. AMERICAN TROOPS LEAVE CUBA. NEW YORK, Jan. 25. The last detachment of the American army of occupation lias left Cuba.

UNITED STATES FORTIFICATION ESTIMATES REDUCED. The Committee of Appropriating of the House of Representatives reduced the fortifications ostiumts by ten million dollars, whereof the largest item is a million for coast batteries in the l^iilippiues. THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONVENTION. CAPETOWN, Jan. 25. The South African Convention has not decided the question of the capital. AN EDUCATION STRIKE. MELBOURNE, Jan. 26. Parents living at North Prentice have organised a strike against the Education Department, and refuse to allow their children to go to school on the ground that the accommodation is injurious to health.

COLD STORAGE CONFERENCE. (Received Jan. 26, 11.30 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 20. The International Conference on Cold Storage at Paris adopted the prejected internatioital associations. It is stated that the Germans and Austrians are alone reserving definite decisions.

THE BRITISH MINERS’ FEDERA-TION-JOINS LABOR PARTY. (Received Jan. 27, 1.1.0 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. ■ Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, announces that tho Miners’ Federation accepts the Labor party’s conditions and joins the organisation.