GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 912, 10 June 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

'JERSEY, MILITARY, SYSTEM

By Telegraph—Press Association.

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LONDON, June. k. Compulsory universal militia service has been adopted in the island of Jersey. SMALLPOX. LONDON, June 8. There are at present 73 smallpox patients in Loudon. HARD .TIMES. BERNE, June S. 'Pile carpenters’ strike at Berne lot a slight increase of wages has thrown two thousand workers in the building trades out of employment.

A LONG WALK

LONDON, June 8

In the butchers’ walk from Smithheld to Brighton, the winner beat the time of Broad, the .successful competitor in tho recent Stock Exchange members’ walk by, nine minutes.

LETTER FROM THE DEEP. SYDNEY, June 9

A corked bottle wasked up by the ,'Bellinger containing the following message : “ June Ist, 1903, (i p.m., E Francis, bound from New Zealand Ship foundering. Eighteen hands on board. I take wheel and never falter. Fellow-mates here ; good-bye.”

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. PERTH, June 9

The Governor has opened the new taw courts, which have cost 11(15,000 Another shipment of one hundred thousand pounds in specie has been made to India. HOBART, June !). The stormy weather is general. MELBOURNE, June 9. During a dramatic performance at Ballarat, a player presented a gun at another, named Eustace Llewelllyii, and accidentally exploded the powder, the wad inflicting severe Wounds on Llewellyn’s face. At the Temperance Conference, the Revs. Bradbury and 1 Disking, of New Zealand, participated in ehc discussions. The Conference adopted resolutions against the employment of barmaids, and in the interests of the natives of New Guinea favored legislation prohibiting the manufacture or importation of intoxicating liquor) there.

In Tom Mann’s speech on the labor interests he advocated the co-operat-ive principle as a substitute for the competitive system. He said he thought, he would have found Austealia a democratic country, but instead lie found greater tyrrany than in the

British Isles. Sir E. Barton has received from Colonial Office correspondence covering the negotiations to June last, between England and France, in regard to the New Hebrides. Since then the negotiations have been continued, hut no news regarding a definite arrangement lias yet. been received.