GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 406, 3 May 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By, telegraph —Press Association Copyright. LONDON, May 1j

Last month the orders placed w

Kuglish makers o£ automobiles .utailed one million sterling. The Liverpool Post states that Mr Morgan pays tbe White Star Line three million sterling cash and six millions in preference shares. The joint Parliamentary Committee on the London water supply has teen transformed into a Water Board to consist of 25 members, representing metropolitan and urban districts, excepting the Borough of West Ham, which has teen eliminated. No County is to be allowed a majority. The vital principles of the scheme proposed by the president of the Local Government Board have been destroyed. The attitude of the Government on the matter is uncertain.

A large sea picture by Mr David Davis, a colonial artist, has been bung on the line at the Royal Academy.

Notwithstanding Mr Chamberlain’s warning that a reduction or a postponement of the education note would be considered equivalent to reaction, the Malta Legislative Council granted only a month’s supply. NiiW YORK. MAY 1.

Evidence was given at General Smith’s trial that a Filipino General ordered his men to poison their spears and issued a proclamation thaffGerman warships were' helping the Filipinos. A panic arose among six hundred women working in a Philadelphia cigan factory, owing to a false alarm of fire Seven were killed and thirty injured. FREMANTLE, May 2. Arrived, R.M.S. Oruba. Passengers for New Zealand : Misses Cooper and Hurt, Mr and Mrs Young and infant. SYDNEY, May 2. "

The Marine Court found the recent collision in Newcastle caused by the failure of the ship Ditton to let go her anchor when the pilot gave the order, and to the want of a second tug, owing to the large size of the Ditton. The President of the Court, in delivering the award, absolved the pilot from blame, and said that the collision was .the result of the omission to send a ‘second tug. No costs were allowed to any of the parties'.

MELBOURNE,

May 2.—The adjourned inquest on the body op Joseph .found that he was probably seized with a fit, which he was- subject to, and drank the most handy liquid, prussic acid, used for experimenting.

The Governor-General’s Establishment Bill met with scant support. The general opinion was that Lord I-lopetoun should not be allowed to bear the expense of entertaining the Royal visitors, and that a • necessary sum be placed on the Estimates, but the Bill was an attempt to go behind

he express provision of the Constituion. After a wraggling debate, Mr larton, realising the hopelessness of

carrying the Bill, agreed to an alteration providing that £IO,OOO be placed on the Estimates as an extraordinary allowance to Lord Hopetoun to defray the expenses of the Royal visit., Mr Barton regretted the attitude of the House, which would not tend in the future to the.best representation of the Commonwealth in the selection of a Governor-General. The Bill in its altered form passed. Mr Symonds made a brilliant speech, lasting nearly three hours. The galleries were crowded. He said the Senate would do its best to give justice finally, and would do it as soon as possible. He made a slashing attack on the Government. Although he was utterly opposed to protective duties, he was willing they should not do anything unreasonable, harsh, dr cruel to destroy any reasonable industry established under protection. The tariff was full of anomalies. Personally, he would rather have a State of Socialism to that of protection. Manufacturers desired their industries should advance, but not at the expense of the primary producers of Australia, and not with the sound of the grinding wheels of monopoly. The debate, was adjourned.

. In the House of Representatives Sir E. C. N. Braddon’s amendment to reduce the first item of the Defence Estimates by £l, as an indication that the Defence vote should be reduced by £200,000, was carried against the Government by 25 to 21, amidst considerable excitement. The vote was taken as an indication that the Government should make a large saving on the Estimates next year. The remainder of the Defence Estimates passed without amendment.

BRISBANE. May 2.—lt is expected that the Civil Service retrenchment will effect a saving of thirty thousand pounds per annum; All officers over seventy, not sixty, will retire. The Queensland Fifth Contingent have returned from the Cape. The inquiry into the deaths of Dalke and Doyle disclosed that some articles found amongst the charred remains belonged to Doyle.