GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1024, 17 October 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

MORTGAGE COMPANY

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) LONDON, Oct. 15. The report of the Australian Mortgage, Land and Finance Company showed a loss last year on its Australian business of £42,000. During the first half of the present year £6OO more was earned than was expended. A NEW COMPANY. LONDON, Oct. 15. The Tasmanian Goldmining Company, with a capital of half a million, has been formed to acquire a company in Tasmania, issuing 210,000 £1 shares, has been underwritten. RAINY LONDON. Rain has fallen in London on thirty consecutive days. SIAM, LONDON, Oct. 15. A British Adviser has been re-ap-pointed in Siam for live years. THE KING; AS SPORTSMAN.

LONDON, Oct. 15. Ills Majesty the King, on horseback, watched his horses training at Newmarket. A HINT TO FREETRADERS. NEW YORK, Oct. 15. The Venezuelan officials at the mouth of the Amucaca stopped a British merchant vessel from Morawhanna, alleging that they were acting under instructions, adding that there ought to be no British trade with America, Complaint has been lodged on behalf of the owners of the vessel. .GERMANY BECOMING REASONABLE, BERLIN, Oct. 15. 'A Bill is being introduced into the Reichstag, providing for further provisional continuance of the favored treatment of Britain, except Canada, ROYAL VISIT TO FRANCE. ROME, October 15. Italian newspapers express sur-

prise and delight at the King’s wonderful reception in Paris, and regard it as consolation for the Russian slight, AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE, October 16.

The Steamship Owners’- Federation considered the request of the Seamen’s Union for a renewal of the existing wages agreement from January next. It is understood that the agreement will be renewed. The State Governor, speaking at a diocesan festival,, declared that there was too much gambling and drinking in Victoria, also other evils that seemed to indicate that the elementary, perceptions of right and wrong had been lost, SYDNEY,- Oct. 16.

The Employers’ Federation adopted a resolution to sink .the fiscal issue ns far as possible at the Federal elections, and affirming that the issue before the electors is Socialism versus private enterprise. The Minister of Customs ordered the examination of inter-State passengers’ lugg'age from Sydney, to Melbourne and Adelaide to cease. There has been a great falling off .'of the exodus to South Africa from ,the various States, .Obituary,: Rev. Clifton, a prominent Wesleyan.