GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 947, 21 July 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

'ANOTHER MARCONI TRIUMPH, . By, Telegraph—Press ’Association—' Copyright. ' "LONDON, July 19. The Daily Mail statet that Signor J -Marconi reports .that he has discov- : ered an instrument for transmitting - messages along the surface of the ' sea, thus disposing of high towers. ■RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS. PEKIN, July 19, !A wireless telegraphy station has . been established at Port Arthur to communicate with the Russian .warships in the Gulf of Pechili. . EASTERN AFFAIRS. LONDON, July, 19. ; Reuter’s Yokohama correspondent states that v Great Britain has requested that Wiju be opened to foreign trade* Corea is believed to be favorable to the request. The Powers will allow all prohibitions against the importation of arms into China to lapse in August. They considered the prohibition to be useless and ineffective. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. ADELAIDE, July 20. i Mr Darling, leader of the Oppo- • sition, has returned from a visit to London. He says that he particui larly enquired of financiers the effect on their minds of Mr Wilson’s recent attacks on Australian finances, and they told him that they did not attach any, great importance to the statement, and did not think that it would do any material injury to credit. The leading financiers are exceedingly well posted in Australian affairs. MELBOURNE, July 20. The Wimmera river is in high flood and portions of Hotham are inundated. Fifty families have removed to high ground. The sum of £20,000 will be placed on the next Estimates for the construction of a telegraph line between Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, under the Cape cable agreef ment with the Eastern Extension Company, the object being to relieve pressure on existing lines.