GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 511, 6 September 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Sept. 4. Lord Hopetoun, acting under medical advice, has declined all public engagements until after the New Year. The King's Hospital Fund has reached £ 60,000. Besides 20 alleged murders, 650 violent d aths, including 62 suicides, were reported in London in the last live weeks. Washington, Sept. 4. Tho Washington Post states that President Roosevelt is tentatively discussing the annexation of Ilayti if tho Huytians should, under the present disturbed conditions, call upon America to restore order. Ottawa, Sept. 4. Sir Edmund Barton, speaking at the Toronto Board of Trade banquet, urged that they should aim at preferential trade for the Empire, so long as the colonies were allowed their own fiscal systems. He scouted the idea that preferences were dangerous. Albany, Sept. 5. The Union Company’s s.s. Aparima has sailed for Dunedin. Perth, Sept. 5. The fire is still smouldering on the Scalda, and it will probably be necessary to unload the coal. The Labor members of Parliament reeeive £6OO instead of £2OO a year, subject to the approval of a referendum. It has been resolved to pay the additional £IOO from tho funds raised by the unions. Brisbano, Sept. 5. The Bishop of North Queensland has been enthroned at Townsville. Sydney, Sept. 5. On the run from Fiji, tho Royal Arthur did a speed trial attaining 19’2 knots, under full power, with natural draught. Melbourne, Sept. 5. Tho Senate negatived tho House’s amendment allowing plumping at Senate elections. Consideration of the tariff is fixed for Tuesday'.