GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 825, 13 February 1903, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TIIE CABLE DEFICIT. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, Feb. 11. The Pacific Cable Board estimates UiC' deficit at ninety-two thousand pounds for the year ending in March of next year, throwing a responsibility of thirty thousand seven hundred pounds on Queensland, New .South Wales, and Victoria.

ROBBING MORGAN. LONDON, Fell. IE Mr Pierpont Morgan’s name has been forged Lo two hills for eleven thousand two hundred and fifty pounds each, in connection with tho alleged purchase of works of art. DAMAGE BY FLOODS. LONDON, Feb. 11. The damage by floods at Ruthcrglen, on the Clyde, amounts to sixty, thousand pounds., REBELS IN MOROCCO. LONDON, Feb. f t. The Pretender of Morocco is again active, and lias received large reinforcements. .VENEZUELA, LONDON, Feb/11. Mr Bowen lias accepted the British protocol. ' THE HUMBERTS. PARIS, Feb. lilt has been decided to try the Humberts for forgery at the May assizes, , ADELAIDE, Feb. 12. The Registrar estimates the harvest at seven thousand eight hundred bushels, an average of six bushels, which will leave an exportable surplus of one hundred and thirty tons. A telegram from Alice Springs stales that a rich discovery of alluvial gold has been made at Wumeckc’s depot. Three nuggets were picked up in one day, weighing on an aggregate eight ounces. PERTH, Feb. 12, The owners of Ihc barque City of York, wrecked at Ilottnest, obtained damages some time hack against the Government, the loss of tiie vessel being attributed to misleading lights. The Government appealed to thc’Privy Council, but have now compromised for live thousand pounds and costs SYDNEY, Feb. 12. During the past seven months, the railways' carried one hundred and eighty thousand hales less wool, than in the previous season. There arc sixty-three cases of typhoid at CoolYamble. Ten nurses have been despatched. One thousand applications have beert received for seed wheat. Applications’ are coming ii“at the rate of one hundred a cay. Two hundred thousand bushels arrive from Adelaide at the ena of the month. _. MELBOURNE, Feb. 12. The Premier, Mr Peacock, in tho Assembly, expressed regret at the news of .Sir Cavan Duffy’s death. The second reading of the Income Tax Bill has been moved. Jt readjusts fhe tax so as to provide an additional one hundred amt eighty thousand pounds revenue. It. is proposed to make the tax fourpence and' nineper.ee, instead of fourpence and ffixperce. The debate was adjourned. . •