GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1020, 13 October 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

BYE-ELECTION IN IRELAND

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October It. In the bye-election fur South Meath, David Sheehy, Nationalist, was elected, defeating Parnell, Independent Nationalist. The Independents announce that they will oppse every O’Brienite until the United Irish League has been bled white. A PROFITABLE YEAR. LONDON, Oct. 11. Paterson, Laing, Bruce, and Company’s report shows a profit of £21,207. Preference dividends absorbed £21,000. The balance was carried forward. The directors state that chieily owing to the drought in Australia, and the consequent reduction of the purchasing power of the community, the trading profit was reduced to £2S,7Gi), A REMARKABLE FEAT. LONDON, October 11. Captain Lcavy drove an eigliteenhor.se power motor car u,p Rack Oinion Railway from Caux to Rocherdenaye, at the speed of seven kilometres, in an hour and a half. THE MULLAH. MASSOWAH, Oct. 11. The Mullah is reported to be within six miles of Obbia. BALLOON VOYAGE. PARIS, October 11. Count Del.ouraukh and the Archduke Salvator accomplished a balloon journey from Paris to Lubeck in fourteen hours. Three accompanying balloons descended at Amiens, Cambria, and Holland. MELBOURNE, Oct. 12. The State Governor, at a meeting of the Health Society, referring to the general indifference and ignorance" regarding health matters, said if as much pains were bestowed on human beings as on racehorses in a pure climate like Victoria we ought to produce the finest race in the world, Mr Irvine received no official confirmation of the loan flotation scheme, hut assumes that the cable is correct. In view ol the condition of the London money market, the terms are not unsatisfactory. It is expected that the Federal elect ons will be held in December. BRISBANE, Oct. 12. An unknown fishing lugger has been wrecked at Howiclc Group. It is supposed to be a Thursday Island bechcdemer boat. The crew are -missing. A child died of plague at Townsville. Infected rats were recently found on the premises. During a brawl at Toowoomba, an Italian named Fen-dou fatally slabbed a man named Simpson. ADELAIDE, Oct. 12. Two fishermen secured a school of five small whales, stranded at St. Hilda Bay. HOBART, Oct. 12. The Council rejected the Early Closing, Governor’s Salary Reduction, and Lotteries Amendment Bills