GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2412, 29 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

WOMEN’S LABOR LEAGUE. United Press Association. Copyright! v LONDON, Jan. 27. • A conference of the Women’s Labor League was held at Portsmouth. Some advocated the State making provision for a mother four months before <ihild-birth and a year afterwards', while others advocated the total prohibition of married women working for a living. GOVERNMENT APATHY TOWARDS ANARCHISTS. Mr. Anderson, late head of the Metropolitan police, condemns the Government’s.apathy towards anarchists. MADAME MELBA. Madame Melba sails for Australia by the steamer Orontes. COLONIAL GOVERNORSHIP. The “Daily Mail” states that Sir Gcrakl Strickland, Governor of Tasmania, will succeed Sir Harry Rawson as Governor of New South Wales. ROYAL VISIT TO SPAIN. King Edward and Queen Alexandra pay a visit to the Queen of Spain at Villa Garcia at the end of February. FAILURE OF OLIVE CROPS. The failure of the olive crops in France, Spain, and Italy has caused the price of olive oil to rise 40 per cent. A further advance is probable. LIBERIA AND GERMANY. BERLIN, Jan. 27. Liberia lias apologised to Germany for the "Wnermann liner incident and promised to punish the offenders. [A German steamer was stated to have been fired on by a Liberian gunboat..] THE IVERNA-ADVANCE COLLISION. SYDNEY, Jan. 28. The Iverna, which was in collision with the tug Advance, has been arrested on an order by the Vico-Aihnir-alty Court in connection with a claim for LII,OOO for the loss of the tug.

AN AUSTRALIAN ROYAL ACADEM 1C I A X.

(Received Jan. 28, 9.18 p.m.)

LONDON. Jan. 28

Mr. .Bertram ALaekrnnal, the. Australian sculptor, lias been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy.

RADIUM—A . ROYAL INSTITUTE AND A SYNDICATE.

(Received Jan. 28, 11.5 p.m.)

LONDON, Jan. 28

King Edward is granting a charter to establish a Bova! British Radium Institute, to include a medical department for tbe treatment of disease. A syndicate has been formed to obtain radium from the Cornish mines.

DEATH OF AN OLD SKA CAPTAIN.

(Received Jan. 28, 11.15 p.m.)

SYDNEY. Jan. 28

News has been received of the death in England of Captain Henry Webber, formerly commander of the San Francisco steamer Zealandia.

RETIREMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Chief Justice retired from tho Bench to-day. lie was impressively I'arewelled by (he Bar and the officials.

THE NAVAL DISASTER—A CERTIFICATE S USPENDED.

Captain Hanson’s certificate Ims been suspended for twelve months in connection with the naval disaster.

[Captain Hanson commanded the steamer which ran down the man-of-war launch.]