GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8263, 28 October 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

LONDON. October 25. The scheme of Mr Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, for increasing tho pay of the bluejackets and stokers has been abandoned for the mo. ment, there being difficulty in providing the money. , Mr J. P- Heseltme, trustee of tho National Gallery, has bought 600 drawings, collected by Messrs Colnaghi, the art dealer, for £200,000. They include seventy-eight Rembrandts and thirty. Watteaus. _ . ... A Pekin message says that a soldier accused of shooting the Rev. Day, SF missionary, • on March Bth, was tracked to Tientsin and finally caught at Karin after a sensational eight months chase. (Received October 28, 0.20 a.nu) LONDON, October 27. The Springboks football team defeated London by 12 points to 8. In tho lawn tennis championships dP Europe the finals resulted: Double*— Doust and Prebble beat Barnett ana Myers, 6—l, 6—4, 6—o. Singles— Pockley beat Heyden, 6—B, 6—3, I—C, g 3 5 i. ' VANCOUVER, October 26. Owing to the fall of a gang plaadi on the steamer Mamma, a steward, Turkington, was killed, and _ another steward and a sailor badly injtmed. ‘ (Received October 27, 5.5 P- m -) PARIS, October 25. Tho Foreign Offices of France and Spain have reached an agreement on an points regarding Morocco. MELBOURNE October 27. It is estimated that a hundred tbov sand persons attended the Henley-on-Yarra regatta yesterday. Tho Albert Park crew won the grand challenge cup.