GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 916, 15 June 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

RECENT BOILER EXPLOSION. A FOURTH DEATH. By Telegraph —Press Association Copyright. LONDON, June 12. A fourth death has occurred in connection with the holier explosion on the warship Good Hope. \jr Arnold Foster, replying to a question in the House of Commons -rave details of the explosion, ami added that he was aware the Allen Line had substituted cylindrical lor Bibcoek-Wilcox boilers on some ol their steamers. FIGIGANS GIVE HOSTAGES. INSTALMENT OF INDEMNITY. LONDON, June 12. The Figigans have surrendered hostages to the French general. They have also given up their arms and paid an instalment, of an indemnity of thirty thousand Francs. ANOTHER TALE OF GOLD. THE USUAL RUSH. PERTH, June LL A prospecting party reports the discovery of extensive, reefs at, Wanda 1 is. Rich specimens have been lodged at the hank. These arc freely studded with gold. The field is described as a second Hunan's. There is no official report of the find. There is believed to he considerable excitement, and miners are flocking to the held. THE RECENT GALES. TWO BARQUES DAMAGED. SYDNEY, June 13. Arriving ships continue to bear evidence of the late gales. The barque Mona, front Buenos Ayres, met with a fierce storm on the Tasmanian coast. Iler decks were continuously flooded, and everything movable swept away. The ship had a perilous list, hut righted after Hie storm. It is feared that the cargo of wheat and flour is damaged. The barque West Tolkian, from Tacoma, lost several sails, and her deck fittings were badly damaged by a succession of gales. Anxiety as to the safety of the Abby Palmer has been relieved. The Westralia, which arrived last, night, sighted her yesterday morning.;

QUESTION OF COINAGE,

SELECT COMMITTEE FAVOR DECIMAL SYSTEM. MELBOURNE, June 13. In the House Mr Edwards moved lo adopt the Select Committee’s report. on Commonwealth coinage. He eiaimed that it was unanimously of opinion in favor of a uniform decimal system, the adoption of which, lie •said, would provide a large source of revenue.

Sir George Turner, while favoring Australia coining silver, said there was no indication that the people 'desired a change. Australia would only create embarrassment by a system not in uniformity with that in use in Great Britain. He moved an amendment to the effect that Hie. time was not ripe for a change and that it should first he introduced in

‘Great Britain, accompanied, if possible, by the metric system ol weights and measures. The debate was adjourned.

CRITICISM OF MR SEDDON

MEASURING PATRIOTISM BY,

TRADE.

SYDNEY, June 13. The Daily Telegraph, commenting on Mr Scddon’s remarks on preferential trade, says that it comes to (his. that the whole of New Zealand’s patriotism as a colonial unit of the Empire is to he measured by the amount which it is allowed to get out of lhe pockets of the British taxpayers, through the medium of

trade concessions in frozen meat, kauri gum, and oilier products, and if tlie Umpire will not give these concessions, let it he dismissed. There, is, however, something to be learned as to what the effect of the pinferential trade scheme upon the Umpire might he. It, would remove Ihe bond of sentiment which now binds the colonies to the Motherland and replace if, by the tie of solid interest, which would immediately become the cause of most embarrassing friction.