GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 342, 17 February 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

\jy 'i’eit^raph—Press As-' c>at:on —Ocpyrigru LONDON, Fel). ii. In connection with the meat contracts the newspaper Truth declares that Bcrgl's Australian interests are a myth, ami asserts that he is simply a Middleman to Ilouider 8r0.,., of tiie Federal Steam Navigation Company, ami the Deßoers' Consolidated Mines. PAWS, Feb. 11. M. Santos Dumont, the aeronaut, in an experiment in aerial navigation, was making his liil.li ascent at Monaco when the gas escaped and the airship fell into the sea and sank. Dumont was rescued.

OTTAWA, Feb. 11. Lord Min to has announced that a direct line of steamers will be established wiili South Africa to assist Canadian commerce. NKiV VOKK, Feb. H. A Kentucky sheriff, with a posse of forty men, in trying to seize some saloon-keepers’ property, fought the owners and twenty-two mountaineer sympathisers. Two of the posse and scum mountaineers were killed. The saloon was burned. i’AWS, Feb. H.

Three Adelaide residents travelling liy the night express from Paris to Marseilles were chloroformed and robbed. The two thieves escaped.

BRISK AN 10, Feb. 15. The brigantine Prosperity, from the Richmond river, with a cargo of machinery, was driven ashore in a gale early this morning at Point Lookout. Sh.i is a total wreck. The mate and cook were drowned.

At a meeting of citizens, the Mayorpresiding, it was decided to hold a demonstration to express approval of the British conduct of the war in South Africa. SYDNEY, Feb. 15.

The Australian Workers’ Union lias authorised Macdonncll. general secretary, to visit New Zealand and obtain the latest information as to the working of the Arbitration Act. The State revenue for the twelvemonth, including 411,8X1,000 return from the Commonwealth, has totalled £0,781,000, an increase of £821,000 compared, with the same period last year. The Federal tariff contributed £13*1,000. This increase the Premier claims is the balance oi actual increase of earning power of State expenditure, including the Commonwealth proportion of £6,058,000, and a comparative increase of £600,000, of which the railways and tramways absorbed £350,000, and old age pensions £226,000. Several labor unions have carried resolutions condemning the anti-British r'solulions adopted at the recent Political Labor League 0 (inference. The s.s. Ophir has returned to Sydney in her former capacity of a mail steamer. Willi the exception of the saloon and smoking-room leather upholstery, all the furnishings of the Royal tour have disappeared. The employment of Lascar firemen and stokers on the s.s. Outran having proved satisfactory, a similar change has also been made on the Ophir. Cycling yesterday, Arthur Smythe lowered the world’s amateur paced live miles, standing start, record to Dm in -11 1-5 sec.

Obituary : Dr George Goode, at f one time, in the service oi the New Zealand Government. MELBOURNE, Feb. 15.

The Pacific Cable Board lias advised Mr Barton that the QueenslandNew Zealand-Fiji section of the Pacific cable will be open for traffic m April or May, instead of June. Itjs also anticipated that the Canada-F-iji section will be ready in August oi or early in September, -three months inside the contract time. Mr Barton lias stated that the Eastern Extension Company’s attitude m regard to the Cape cable is so unsatisfactory that negotiations will have to start de novo. PERTH, Feb. 15.

Natives attacked the ketch Vontura at Cadell Straits, and killed one of the crew named Lewis, and injured another.