GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 926, 26 June 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

QUEENSLANDERS’ ANNUAL’ DINNER.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, June 24.

At the Queenslanders’ annual dinner, the guests included Sir Henry Norman and the Agents-General. Sir Horace Tozer, who presided, in the course of a speech, said that .Queensland had entered the Federation in the highest spirit, trusting to her neighbors in the South to consider her special requirements, which he trusted would not be blotted out by high-handed aetions like those that had characterised the past. A HUMANE MEASURE. LONDON, June 24.

The Government dissenting, the House of Commons agreed that children should not be licensed to appear on the stage under 10 years of age. REDUCTION OF, WAGES. LONDON, June 24.

The Scotch Coal Trade Conciliation Board has reduced wages to a minimum of five and sixpence a day. ,U.S. PRESIDENCY. NEW YORK, June 24. , Mr Grover Cleveland denies that he will re-enter-public life. I-Ic discourages a movement for his candidature for the presidency^ .THE PLAUSIBLE DOWIE.

SYDNEY, June 25. Doctor Dowie, of Zion City, fame, visits Australia in December. THE ESSEX. I

It is expected that the discharge of the Essex’s No: 5 hold will be completed to-day. A large quantity of the contents,' principally oats, has 'been damaged, but still'the damage is not so serious as was anticipated. No arrangements have yet been made to transfer the passengers and cargo to another steamer. ' TEACHERS AND POLITICS. MELBOURNE, June 25.

A board of enquiry exonerated a school teacher named Mead of a charge of taking part in political affairs, on the ground that the meeting he addressed was a private one, and the speech was published in the press without his knowledge and was not disrespectful to his superior officers.

MELBOURNE, June 25

A conference of shipping interests is . being held under an agreement made in December last, which provided that if the State shipping trade was considered to warrant it, wages would be reduced. The press are excluded. The conference is expected to conclude to-day, and an amicable settlement to be reached A FEDERAL SURPLUS. MELBOURNE, June 25. The Federal Treasurer expects the year to end with a surplus of about three-quarters of a million over the estimate. Of this amount about £450,000 will come from fodder duties, whicn he did not expect, and £60,000 from excise.