NEWS JOTTINGS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3293, 11 August 1911, Page 5

NEWS JOTTINGS.

To-day is the twenty-first anniversary of the death of Cardinal Newman. The cables to-day contain further interesting details of the significant industrial strike in- England. A peculiar coincidence is that to-morrow wall he the 22nd anniversary of the great London Dock strike, which was attended •with such a disastrous dislocation of traffic. A Press Association telegram from Westport received early this morning announced the death of Mr Jonathan Dixon, district manager for the Company. At the Sydney thoroughbred sales the New Zealand horse St. Ilario, winner of the first prize in the Parade, fetched 150 guineas. Since Sunday 27 cases of cholera have been reported at a lunatic asylum at Marseilles, of which 12 have proved fatal. The New South Wales Rowing Association has decided, to send an eightoar crew and a sculler to compete at the Olymipio games next year.—Press Association. Owing to the heat waves the deaths in Paris for the past fortnight are 588 above the normal. Official intimation has been received in Sydney of a projected visit of the Japanese training squadron, beginning the Pacific tour in December. A man died in Melbourne hospital after 'being a week with a broken neck. He was conscious, but helpless. A Press Association cable states that Mr John Gates, the American millionaire, has died in Paris. He was the introducer of barbed wire. Ten medical students were motoring after a festive gathering in Paris. A tyre burst, and the motor dashed into a barber’s shop. Four persons were killed and the rest were seriously injured. General Sir J. D. French has been gazetted as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Lieutenant-General C. W. Douglas as Inspector General of the Home Forces.—Press Association cable. C. B. Fry, who scored 123 against Kent, also obtained a century in the second innirms. He scored 112. Twenty-two thousand metal workers are locked out at Leipsic and Thuringian. towns. Anxiety is felt lest the movement extends ig) Berlin. The Postmaster-General! of the United States regrets that he is unable to accept penny postage. An anonymous donor has given £SOO towards the completion of a Coronation wing of the Public Library in Dunedin.