GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 44, 21 February 1901, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Feb. 20,

Disunion exists between the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society, the former, insisting on the command of the forthcoming Antarctic expedition to be entrusted to a civilian staff, and the latter holding that,a naval officer ought to command. ' - ■ '

A firm at Bristol gave a cheque for a quarter of a million, duty on tobacco removed from bond.

Bostock and Company, of Liverpool, against whom a verdict was recently obtained in connection with the beer poisoning cases, are compulsorily liquidating. General Pole-Carew, who recently returned from South Africa, has married Lady Beatrice. Francis Elizabeth Butler, daughter of the Marquis of Ormonde. Pratch and Co.’s liabilities are now stated to be about four hundred thousand pounds. Share prices are unchanged. Denmark has refused America’s offer of twelve million Kronen for the Danish West Indian Isles. In the House of Commons Mr John Dillon moved the adjournment, as a protest against .Mr Balfour’s long-standing rule that the Foreign Under-Secretary should not reply to questions which have not been notified. The motion was rejected by 204 votes to 149. The smallness of the Government majority is explainable by the complaint of several Liberal Unionists that the rule was too rigid, by various abstentions from voting, and by defections from the Government ranks.

Thirtv members of the Band of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines will accompany the Duke of York.