GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 942, 15 July 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, July 13. Mr Copeland expresses the opinion that under the preferential scheme labor would-return . to the country, the cities would become less crowded, and wages would rise. A NICKEL COMPANY. .

LONDON, July 13. The Consolidated Nickel Mines Company, with a capital of four hundred thousand pounds in one pound shares, has been formed to acquire nickel properties in New Caledonia. The purchase price is £141,000. The company is issuing 150,000 shares at par. SOMALILAND CAMPAIGN. LONDON, July 13. The Daily Telegraph’s Somaliland correspondent states that the force is returning to the coast, ’caving garrisons at Damot and Bohotle. A DIRECT GAIN. LONDON, July 13.

Thanks to the preferential tariff, a Glasgow firm obtained a contract for twenty locomotives for the Canadian Pacific railway. HARCOURT’S OPINION.

LONDON, July 13. •Sir W. V. Harcourt, in a letter to the Times, predicts that the country’s verdict will he adverse to the taxation of food'.' TRAINING BLUEJACKETS. LONDON, July 13. The Spectator declares that the local training of 1600 'Australian

bluejackets would teach Australians the vast importance of sea power as the hiring of seamen by subsidies never could. Tt-IE GREEK CABINET. ATHENS, July, 13. , M. Ralli has formed a new Cabinet He takes the offices of Premier and Foreign Affairs ; M. Mavromielialis is Minister of the Interior and M. Constantinidas Minister of War, DEATH OF JUDGE ARMOUR. .

OTTAWA, July 13. Obituary : John D. Armour, Chief 'Justice of Ontario, and one of , the British Commissioners on the Alaskan boundary question. A REBEL BEHEADED; PEKIN, July 13. At the instance of the French Consul, . the leader of the Yunnan rebellion submitted, pleading local coercion. .The Consul admitted the plea -but the leader was beheaded. A SERIOUS ERROR. SYDNEY, July. 14.

The health authorities state that an error was made in stating that there was a case of plague at

Noumea. - .WATER FOR BROKEN HILL'. SYDNEY, July. 14

The South Australian Government have decided to supply eight hundred gallons of water weekly to Broken Hill, at ten shillings a thousand. This will take twenty-seven trains to convey. The cost will he .borne by New South Wales and South Australia equally.

A REMARKABLE REPORT

SYDNEY, July. 14,

The Consul-General of France has not received any information bearing on the deportation of criminals, to the nickel mines near Caledonia. , The rumor probably originated owing to a number of convicts serving sentences in Noumea being employed , ; n the mines.