GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 405, 2 May 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON. 1 April 3U.—The accident aboard the J warship Formidable was due to a der- b; lick slipping. Lieutenant Pringles ti was amongst the killed. The Government estimates to March next are that taxation will realise 01 £711,025,000 and loans £155.115,000. The House of Commons debated the . Procedure Hill from S in the afternoon A to 5.40 in the morning. There were . much Nationalist obstruction, and many closures. Mr Pirie, Chairman of Harland and Wolffs, declares that Mr Morgan’s combine will Ire beneficial to British t shipping, and in no wise detrimental a to British interests. The British Minister at Pekin, Yuan- I shikai, Viceroy of Chili, and Iluynfen, ,of the Imperial council, have v signed an agreement defining the conditions of restoring to China on .June Ist the railway from Shanhakwan to Tientsin and Pekin. <] Forty-two deaths occurred in London from small-pox last week. A crowded meeting of citizens at Dublin denounced the Lord Mayor’s . recent action in regard to the Coronation, and decided to present an address to the King. The Duke of Connaught, after representing King Kdward at the Coronation of King Alfonso of Spain at Madrid, will hasten to Ireland to receive Prince Henry. The Australian gambling swindlers, Middleton, Forrester, oveiock, and Cassels, were sentenced to nine months imprisonment each. BRUSSELS. April 30.—1 tis reported here that British troops have occupied Belgian territory in the Eastern Soudan. MADRID. April 30.—The Barcelona municipal authorities have decided not to celebrate Alfonso’s coronation. Crowds cheered the decision. NEW YORK. ; April 30.—Evidence given at the : trial of General Smith, which is proceeding at Manila, showed that the in. habitants of the island of Samar of all ages were guilty of savage treachery in massacring American soldiers —making it necessary to adopt the sternest measures. SYDNEY. May I.— A conference of the Pastoralists’ Union and Machine Shearers’ Shed Employees Union adopted an agreement based on the 1804 agreement. It provides for freedom of contract, shearing rates of £1 per 100 sheep, £2 for rams, shed hands 255, d wool rollers, penners, and pickers up to 30s a week, witii rations. A number of alterations are made in the shearing rules, showing compromises on both sides. Shearing by contract ! 3 is approved. Twelve months’ notice is required to terminate the agreement which will he registered in -the Arbitration Court' The Minister of Works lias laid the T foundation stone of the new central station at Redfern. The work is pro- ■ grossing rapidly. A monster meeting 1 1 residents of the city and suburbs adopted resolutions in favor of creating a Greater Sydney, and the formation of a league for the purpose. The present divided - system of municipal government in the metropolitan area was condemned as r 4 absurd, chaotic, and wasteful. A quantity of wreckage has been washed ashore at Yambo. It is evidently a portion of the bottom of a boat or schooner. MELBOURNE. , May I'—lt is estimated that the granting of women the franchise would add 7GU,000 to the Commonwealth r electoral roll.

The Pearling Commission inquiries cover the prospects ol '.he industry if regulations are made to carry on with whit.e labor only.