GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6153, 10 August 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

TROUBLE OVER CARUSO’S WILL ROME, Aug. 8. Extensive litigation is expected to arise owing to Caruso’s habit of making a new will almost monthly. It is reported that the Sorrento will, dated a few weeks ago, which was found under a pillow in the death chamber, has now disappeared. It is alleged that before the officials arrived to seal the. effects millions of lira worth of jewellery vanished. The story goes that mysterious people shadowed Caruso from the date of his arrival in Italy.

NATIONAL SAVINGS. LONDON. Aug. 8. The . National Savings Committee reports forty-five millions sterling worth of certificates have been sold in 1920, compared with seventy-nine millions in 1919. The total sales since the inauguration of the scheme in 1916 amount to 341 millions, the total repayments at sixty-one millions. including thirtv-one millions in 1920.—A. and N.Z.C.A. BRITISH OFFICERS IN NORTH PERSIA DISMISSED. (Received Aug. 9, 5.5 p.m.) DELHI, Aug. 8. All the British officers employed in Northern Persia have been dismissed with six months’ pay and have left. Although he is now denouncing the Anglo-Persian agreement Prince Ferouz violently attacked Jliss for the part it played in the formation of an unsuccessful effort to unseat him. COMMUNIST ARRESTS IN JUGOSLAVIA. BELGRADE, Aug. 8. Fifty-three Communist members of the Jugo-Slav Parliament have Teen arrested. THE KIDNAPPED PRIEST. NEW YORK. Aug. 8. Archbishop Hanna has offered £IOOO for the recovery of Father Hislin. the kidnapped priest: The police have offered a similar amount. REDUCTION IN OIL PRICES. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. Tlie Standard Oil Co. announces a reduction in the price of crude oil by twenty-five cents per barrel; in petrol of two cents per gallon. - U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. (Received Aug. 8, 8.55 p.m.) Immigration officials say that they will ask Congress to amend the immigration law in order to allow the admission of more Australians and New Zealanders. Residents of the Pacific Coast have been asking 'for the admission of more Australians on the ground that they make a fine type of immigrant.' Only fifty New Zealanders and 211 Australians are admissible annually under the present arrangement and the officials wish the minimum to he 1200 for any nation. This increase will only add between two and three thousand to the total annual immigration.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

ALLEGED MURDERER, OF TISA. (Received Aug. 9. 11 p.m. 3 LONDON, Aug. S. The Morning Post’s Hamburg correspondent says that ex-Captain Czernkak, the Hungarian aviator, has been arrested . on a charge of murdering Count Tisa. "HUGE LABOR CONGRESS PLANNED. LONDON, Aug. S. The British Labor Party holds an international conference in London early in October, at which proposals to prepare machinery for creating a .world-wire labor international on a broad enough basis to include the Moscow international and ;H rotherhoods affiliated to the American Federation of 'Aabor. A LUCKY COUNTESS. PARIS, Aug. 8.. The Countess of Catheart had sensational luck at the Deanvillo Casino. She commenced to play at ten in the evening with 125 francs. She left the table at midnight with 17,000 francs.—-A. and N.Z.O.A. HOME METAL MARKET. (Received Aug. 9, 11 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 8. Copper, spot £7O Is 3d, forward £7O 8s 9d; lead, both positions £23 15s; spelter, £25 15s and £26 10s; tin, £l6l 15s and £163 15s; silver, 38-Jd per oz.—A. and N.Z. O.A. THREAT TO DUCK "AUCTIONEER (Received Aug. 10, 1 a.m.) LONDON, TUig. 8. A general protest is being made against the proposed sale, by auction, of the historic field of Runnymede. The Vicar of Egham threatens to duck the auctioneer in the river Thames. HEAVY LOSS AT BACCARAT. PARIS, Aug. 8. Mr Wallace, recently American ambassador, lost six hundred thousand francs at baccarat on the eve •of sailing for America to a_ r renen count, well known in turf circles. United Service. ■