GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 375, 28 April 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AUCTIONEERS FOUND GUILTY OF NEGLIGENCE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, April 20. The jury found Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods, the well-known iirm of auctioneers, guilty of negligence in the preparation of a sale catalogue, whereoy Charles Dickens was sold some alleged antique ciiina which was spurious. Plaintill's failed to prove any monetary loss. Judgment was deferred. A STATUE TO A PAINTER. London, April 2G. Mr. B, MacKennal, the Australian sculptor, has been commissioned to execute a national statue to Gainsborough for erection at Sud/bury. [Thomas Gainsborough, the painter, was born at Sudbury, Sull'olk, in 1727. His best known picture is the portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire.] PORTSMOUTH GRAVING DOCK. Lotion, April 20. Messrs. Morrison and Mason, oi Glasgow, have secured the contract for a graving dock at Portsmouth, to cost £1,500,000. CHURCHES' SPECIAL APPEAL. New York, April 20. Protestant churches in the United States, in a week's special appeal for funds for home and foreign missions, collected six million dollars. ! GROWING USE OF .WIRELESS. London, April 20. In the last nine months 34,490 transAtlantic wireless telegrams have been exchanged. There are 11G British vessels licensed to receive messages. THE IMPERIAL PIONEERS. i London, April 26. The Daily News, referring to the Imperial Pioneers, says it has no objection to colonials entering the Tory service, but all objections in the world to their pretending to be authorised ambassadors of the Empire when they i are merely their own obscure selves.

VALUABLE MANUSCRIPTS. London, April 26. William Blathwayt's correspondence was sold by auction at Sotheby's lor £8650, including William Penn's .draft of the Pennsylvania grant. I