GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 822, 21 February 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph—Press Association—< Copyright.;

London, Feb. 19

Tho Duke of Devonshire, speaking in the House of Lords, said it would be unreasonable not to apply to London education the same basic principles as were applied to the rest of the country.

News has been received of the death of Prince Komatsu, of apoplexy, aged 57. The Prince represented Japan at the Coronation at Loudon. He is closely related to the Mikado.

In the ocean race to test the relative value of different boilers, H.M.S. Hyacinth’s piston rod became overheated, causing expansion of the metal. The severe strain threatened dislocation of the machinery. The engineer shut oil the steam and averted a terrible accident. The cruiser was then forty miles ahead of the Minerva. The mishap occurred twenty-three hours after starting.

The delimitation of the AngloFrench frontier from Bokoto to Lake Tehad is progressing rapidly.

Two years’ experience of Lord Grey’s public-house trust m managing new licensod houses in the interest of the community has proved highly successful.

Tlio new regulations have had the effect of reducing tho volunteers by seventy thousand.

Baron de Freyne is claiming wonty thousand from the leaders of the United Irish League for inciting a plau of campaign.

The dow licensing Act requires Freemason Lodges to be registered or to obtain ' spirit licenses. The magistrates are enormously reducing the number of licensed houses.

The Yorkshire Cricket Council are opposed to the widening of the wickets. The County Committee favor the widening and recommend a trial be made. A majority of first class counties favor the innovation.

New York, Feb. 19. The Venezuela Supreme Court has awarded America 700,000 dollars for the annulment of market concessions at Caracas.

Brisbane, Feb. 20. The Queensland sugar exported to date is 58,000 tons, against 174,000 for the same period last year.

Treasury bills amounting to £690,000 at 102 and bearing interest at 4 per cent have been placed on the local market.

! Another case of plague is reported*

Perth, Feb. 20. _ A case of plague has occurred in the city, and another at Fremantle.

Hobart, Feb. 20. Sir Joseph Ward arrived last night, and was met and welcomed by the Premier.

Sydney, Feb. 20. The enquiry into the collision between ,the Wakatipu and Urimbla, commences on J hursday next.

Another three thousand tons of wheat has arrived from San Francisco.

Cardinal Moran, accompanied by a number of laymen, visits the missions at Norfolk Island, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides, and New Caledonia in August next.

Melbourne, Feb. 20.

The Income Tax Bill has been recommitted. An amendment was carried placing assurance companies, local and foreign, on a uniform basis by taxing thirty per cent, of their incomes one shilling in the pound.

A conference of the Pastoralists’ Association and Workers’ Union has fixed the shearing rates at fifteen shillings and a pound, or seventeen shillings and sixpence and find themselves. provided the Association went hack to the old conditions regarding the supply of combs and cutters.

The Commission appointed to enquire into the Victorian labor legislation recommends that the State be divided into six districts, and courts of conciliation and arbitration established in each ; that a system of indentured apprentices be made compulsory in the principal trades and manufacturing industries; that arrangements be made for instruction in selected State schools in trades ; that apprentices be admitted to such schools on the easiest terms; that all Asiatics be licensed, and any person employing an Asiatic must take out a license for a work room ; and that the maximum number of licenses be fixed by law.