GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 914, 12 June 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

KIDNAPPING A GIRI

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, .June 111. Captain diaries Allred Percy Gardener, described as a native af Victoria, was charged at How Street with abducting a girl named Frances? I.esar, aged 17. lie informed the police that he was long acquainted wilh the Lesars, and found the girl aboard the Kunic when sailing from Capetown. He fruitlessly tried to persuade her to return, and also to send her back from Teneriffe. Gardener was remanded unhailed.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. LONDON, June 10. The accident on the warship Good Hope was caused by a holt in a boiler tube yielding, and allowing the steam to escape. An artificer and stoker have .succumbed to their injuries. NEW FISCAL POLICY. LONDON, June JO. Many Unionist newspapers in London and the provinces urge the Government to fulfil the duties at hand. They declare that it is impossible to force the pace on a subject requiring careful consideration. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Bishop Slortlord, said a return to protection would prove an illusory benefit.

THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

LONDON, June 10. The Stock Exchange opened flat. Consols are at one-quarter lower. American stocks fell heavily, and South Africans are lower. A YOUNG RUFFIAN.

LONDON, .June 10. The hoy Knowles admits that he attempted to' murder the baby, which, however, was rescued alive. A pedestrian found it half buried in a hole, covered with old railway sleepers.

THE HUMBERTS. PARIS, June 10. The Humberts have been committed for trial. SUGAR BONUS BILL. MELBOURNE, June 10. 'Hie Sugar Bonus Bill has been circulated. It provides a bonus of 4s per ton on cane and 40s per ton on ■beet grown by white labor only.

THE NAVY AND THE EMPIRE, MELBOURNE, June 10. The State Governor, in the course

of a lecture at Fitzroy on “ The Navy and the Empire,” said he considered England’s present position satisfactory, both absolutely and relatively to her probable enemies. The British Navy has never been so strong and efficient in peace time as now. In the means of building and equipping warships, America Was the only country which could hope to rival Britain. He regarded war between America and Britain as a crime unthinkable. No probable enemy of England had its own supply of steam coal—a vital need. YOUNG JOHN BULL. MELBOURNE, June 111. •Sir John Forrest, Federal Minister of Defence, said as to a raid on Australia, they had been so long accustomed to peace and security that they had begun to act as if difficulty and danger would never come to the apron strings of the Mother Country. They should act like an independent people, and not leave their kindred in the old country to do everything. EXPENSIVE EXPERIMENT. MELBOURNE, June JO.

The substitution of uniform telegraph rates throughout the Commonwealth has caused a large falling off in revenue. Judging by the eleven months it has been in operation it is probable that the Treasurer’s estimate will not be reached by over forty thousand pounds.