GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10494, 13 October 1926, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

BUSH FIRES IN N.S-W. (Received Oct. 12. 8.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct- 12. Bush fires raging in the Orange, district on the North Coast, destroyed valuable timber reserves and grazing country.—U.B.A.' SOIL* GGLED~Ii A LIA NS DEPORTED (Received October 12, 9.50 p m.) HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Oct 11. One hundred and twentythree Italians, who landed on the coast of Nova Scotia* some weeks ago in contravention of the immigration laws,, were quietly deported to-day _ on the steamer Columbia, which sailed for Italy at dawn. They were restless after their long confinement- Four of the smuggled Italians escaped from the detention shed on Saturday, and have not yet been re-captured. Two are reported to have landed hut were never taken into custody. FOURTEEN MONTHS’ GAOL FOE. DEFAMING MUSSOLINI LONDON, Oct. 12. The Daily Telegraph’s Rome correspondent reports that Dumini, the. avowed leader in the Matt-ratti crime was sentenced to fourteen months imprisonment, with twenty days sclitarv confinement, on a charge or defaming Mussolini. The defence was that Dumini was exasperated because he had been abandoned by old friends and was reduced to poverty aud liad to pawn the family jewels. He claimed he was still an ardent Fascist and an admirer or Mussolini. WORLDS - WHEAT CROP. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11This year’s tc 0 wheat crop is estimated' by the Department of Agriculture at 539,515.000 bushels. The Department forecasts that the spring wheat will yield 10.2 bushels to the acre, compared with 12.9 in 1925. Last year the total production was <56(5,000.003 bushels. SEVERE STORM IN NORTH SEA. (Received October 12, 10.35 p.m.,* LONDON, Oct. 12. A severe storm is raging in the North Sea, and Queen Maud, of Norway, is indisposed after a rough crossing from Oslo. Steamers are arrrv - ing from' Xewoastle-on-Tyne fourteen hours late. DESTRUCTIVE AVALANCHE. LONDON. Oct. 11. The Dailv Mail states that a fresh Dent du Midi avalanche covered hundreds of Yards of forest, blocked the Valais road, and demolished the work of the men making a new channel for the Saint Barthelemy torrent under the Simplon bridge, over which trains are crawling, the water lapping the rails.