GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1060, 30 November 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

' By- Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 27. Professor Ramsay announces that radium throws oil infinitely small particles which lose radiosity and then give a spectrum of helium. If there is only helium and radium, slowly changing into helium, he states the life of radium is two million years. Professor Ramsay further states that the transformation of radium into helium looked like a solution of the problem of changing baser metals into gold. Owing to dumping, the Monmouthshire stedl tin-plate works at Pontvmis ter, employing 4000 hands, will be unable to continue to wofk at a profit after November and will place the men on weekly, instead of monthly contracts. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Oxford, declared that Mr Balfour’s proposals were futile. The Conservatives would not accept them. Frankly, Mr Balfour was hatching for Mr Chamberlain. lie was sitting on .cockatrices’ eggs, honestly believing they were his own. Mr Winston Churchill, replying to a demand that he should resign his scat, told his constituents that it was easier for Oldham to change its candidate at the general election than for him to change his principles. The Lord Mayor of London lias been created a baronet. A case has been heard in the King’s Bench, wherein 80 underwriters at Lloyd’s claimed damages on the ground of fraudulent representations. R. T. Smith, acting for A. M. Jay and U. C. Jay, induced plaintiffs to assign claims on the Gullewa goldfields to another syndicate in consideration for worthless Phoenix gold shares. A verdict was given for plaintiffs, with £O4OO damages against the Jays. The Right Rev. J. R. Rym, Bishop of Mauritius, has been appointed Bishop of Bombay. The Daily Telegraph’s Shanghai correspondent states that the Viceroys of thirteen provinces have offered the Dowager 90,000 foreign drilled troops to fight in Manchuria. NEW YORK, Nov. 27. The Colombian troops at Cartliagena prevented the United States Consul hoarding the Royal mail steamer Trent. ST.- PETERSBURG, Nov. 27. The newspaper Novoe Vremya declares that if the projects m Thibet are executed British prestige in the eyes of 500 million Buddhists will he completely restored. The best way to help the Thibetans would be to exercise a little pressure elsewhere, creating a diversion disagreeable ftr British politicians. PEKIN, Nov. 27. Prince Alexiefi is expected to reoccupy a number of other towns on the pretext of assisting China to develop Manchuria. PARIS, Nov. 27. The proprietors of the Siecle paper '(which has taken a leading part in the arbitration movement) entertained the British Parliamentary visitors* Responding to a compliment paid the French navy by Lord Brassey, M. Lanessan, a former Minister of Marine, declared that neither political conditions or other requirements now demanded the sacrifices which formerly were necessary. What France wished was to be so strong that England would- believe in France’s strength, and make it a basis for the best form of friendship. PERTH, Nov. 28. Mr Piggott’s no-confidence motion Was negatived by 25 to 10. HOBART, Nov. 28.

An escaped monkey entered a house and attacked a lady. When locked in the kitchen, .it broke all the crockery, The police shot the monkey. SYDNEY, Nov, 28.

Three men—named Kitching, formerly chief messenger in the Colonal Secretary’s Department ; Wake, ex-steward to Lord I-iopetoun ; and Philp, supplier of goods—have been committed to (trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Government of large sums of money in con•pection with the supply of plate to [Government House in 1900, when it was refurnished for the GovernorGeneral. The case for the prosecution was that the goods were obtained without proper requisitions, and the prices paid were double what they should have been. MELBOURNE, Nov, 28.

Heavy monsoonal rains have fallen in the northern districts, interfering with harvesting and causing damage to crops. Mr Deakin is making a steady improvement. The steamer Everton Grange, from ,London, passed four large icebergs, one mile long and 250 ft high, 800 miles off Cape Leuwin.