GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1058, 27 November 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

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By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 25. Tile scrip of the Victorian conversion loan is quoted at 93-J-, and Treasury bonds at USf. THE PACIFIC CABLE. LONDON, Nov. 25. Sir H. Tozer, after the reading of Dr Thompson’s paper on the Queensland progress and resources at the Royal Colonial Institute, denies that the Pacific Cable was losing money.

COLLISION AT SEA. LONDON, Nov. 25. The ship Cimba, when leaving Liverpool lor Sydney, collided with a hopper vessel and returned to port. She will probably have to discharge part of her cargo. INCITING TO MURDER. LONDON, Nov. 25. A man named Says, a boardinghouse keeper, has been remanded at Cardiff on a charge of olfering Mouchard, a Frenchman, ten pounds to cut the. throat of Joseph Havelock, general secretary of the National Seamen’s Union. A HUMANE MOVEMENT, LONDON, Nov. 25. Dr Ingram, Bishop of London, and many representative men, propose -to. unite ail the London relief agencies and provide work for unemployed outside the city, while keeping .the homes of those who are destitate ■intact. BACK FROM THE SOUTH POLE. BERLIN, Nov. 25. Dr, Von Drygalski’s Antarctic expedition in the steamer Gauss has returned to Kiel, and was welcomed ■by Prince Henry of Prussia. CORRUPT OFFICIALS,LISBON, Nov.- 25, Many Portuguese railway officials are implicated in a systematic robbery. of foreign mail trains, BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. NEW YORK, Nov, 25. In connection with the application i for a receiver for the United States ! Shipbuilding Trust, correspondence ] has been produced showing that Schwab tried to bribe Nixon, presi- ’ dent of the company, with 200,000 dollars to accept a scheme of reorganisation.

AN INUNDATION. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. Great floods have occurred at Petersburg, Pennsylvania. Wheel, traffic has been suspended, and boats and rafts used in the streets, .THE KAISER’S THROAT TROUBLE. BERLIN, Nov. 25. The wound in the, Kaiser’s throat has been cicatrized. 1-Ie is still unable •to speak freefy. Ilis condition has been less satisfactory, the last two nays. Slight erosions have appeared alongside the wound. THE CZARINA’S EAR TROUBLE. ST s PETERSBURG, Nov, 25. ' The Czarina is suffering from protracted inflammation of the ear, causing anxiety, owing to the inner organ being inflamed. “ EMPEROR OF. SAHARA,” PARIS,- Nov. 25, 'Jacques Lebaudy, who recently declared himself Emperor of Sahara, -with the assistance of a Thames syndicate interested in the occupation of gun-running, is shipping 1000 modern rifles and many maxims and field-guns eo the Grand Canaries for use in the Sahara. M. Lebaudy is also recruiting an army in Switzerland and elsewhere abroad. lIOOLEY AFFAIRS, LONDON, Novj, 25. Before the King’s Bench, Mrs E. ,T. I-looley sued a cotton manufacturer named Booth lo recover the sum of £2,800, alleged to he due upon some shares in the Sapphire Conundrum Company, Western Australia. Booth forced the Company, into liquidation* alleging that he was unable to obtain working capital from Hooley, who was acting for liis w fe, who was one of the promoters. Booth denied the alleged liability, and counter-claimed £2OO paid on 5000 shares, alleging misrepresentations The Chief Jusfcce commented on the statement made by a witness named Cawston to the effect that I-looley urged -him to stay away from /the trial, also I-looley’s contradiction of that statement. The jury must, Lord Alverstone added, decide how, far they could rely on Hooley’s oath.A verdict was given for defendant upon the claim and counter-claim. Before the King’s Bench, Oharleis Kelly and Eden George sued Cawston to recover upon a bill of exchange, given at E. T, Hooley’s stigation in connection with Kefiy’s scheme to reconstruct the Sapphire Conundrum Company. Mr Justice Lawrence declared tile transaction fraudulent from beginning to end,and George knew it. Judgment was for defendant, with costs. AUSTRALIAN NEWS, SYDNEY, Nov. 26, 'A' man named Day, has been found shot at Granville. His wife lias been committed to trial on susp cion of murdering'him. The negotiations of .the Masters’ and Engineers’ Association and ferry steamers and tug proprietors with reference to a new agreement have come to a deadlock and been referred to the Arbitration Court, ' ~ A recrudescence of fire in the old [workings at East Greta colliery is interfering with work. Several men were overcome by carbonic acid gas fumes* '