GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3584, 9 March 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

NEW FLYING BASE. (United Press Association —Copyright). (Received March 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Madch 8. A living corps base is being cstabished at Dover at a cost of £45,000.

PENNY POSTAGE. (Received March 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. Sir J. Henniker-Heaton hasinformed the ‘-Graphic” that he holds a guarantee against the Anglo-French Government’s loss it they establish penny postage. FIRST CHRISTIAN SERVICE.

SYDNEY, March 7. The diary of the surgeon of one of the. vessels of the first fleet has been discovered. It shows that the first Christian service was held in Australia on February 3, 126 years ago, not January 27 ? the date which has been previously recognised.

DR. MAWSON’S DISCOVERIES. ADELAIDE, March 3. Dr Mawson makes his first pub ic announcement of the expedition’s scientific discoveries at a meeting o the British Association tor Hie Advancement of Science, to be Held m Australia in August.

MARCH OF UNEMPLOYED. NEW YORK, March 7. Fifteen hundred unemployed are encamped near San eoucc ng food preparatory to a a march across the continent to Washington.

EXCLUSION OF ASIATICS. OTTAWA, March 6. The Labor Commission in British Columbia recommends the total exclusion of Asiatics because Canada- should not admit ,u race which cannot be iujly absorbed.

PLAGUE IN CHINA. HONGKONG, March 6. Seven deaths from plague have been repo f ted.