GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1349, 9 January 1905, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

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itho pennant— Selecting the li»_ and excluding caaCu. In accordance wit-a ' the Naval Department. CSb---..—~;sa3jfe. 23nd November,' 23 nop-effeOtive war-s** shipSj which are going to Quseoa- . ferry, will be’sojil on oonvenient occasions. 11-M.S. Suherb has been declared Tton-oSective. . *. \ -. ' SYDNEY* Jan- 7„" . {The Shipping Master’s .-report shows- that 1334 foreign-going and intercolonial yeGsels. .with a tunnaflft.. of 5,427.000,-arrived at Sydney lash year.; Though there Whs-a-docreasa - id tha numbor of ships arriving ihß»., tonnage showad Considerable crease. •• •' • - ■: The Education Commissioners bava . issued; an interim report onjcommeE*.. cial tend technical education,- which deals .with the. eystems in .vogue on } .the. Continent. and elsewhere,, but pf view of a fuller report-it makes f definite recommendations,. ■ PERTH, Jan.“4'4’ *' .The report of the Royal Com mi g* sion in connection with the Great Boulder Perseverance mine in lengthy document finds.it has been ithe policy of the directors to religiously prevent any information aa ta the working and true-position of the mine becoming known, and were keeping many -important , matters fro© the knowledge of the - sharehoidersi It would . appear - that - the chairman PS jdiatotorst Frank- Gardjier, end some directors have .throughout vanced . their -own . interests, bom shown an utter disregard .-of the interests pi the- shareholders. fThej* report makes a recommendation Witte, a view to.preserving the,-interests shareholders Jn mines and preventing a recurrence of such abuses as have bean disclosed at the inquiry* SYDNEY, January 7, #! MrOlfzmfb.erlaia, in Jiia letter, cays ** The statement so freely made bjj .those Whose’, interest- in the . welfare H&f 4h« Empire aa a whole has always been ar doubtful qtantifiy, that) tha colonies are . eelfis bly seeking ' ifcheiE 1 own advantage,; ansi while demanding" i great sacrifices’from .us would . make na Adequate retainis a libel hppn > all o.ux fellow-subjects across the

seav The .Uaipnisb party: has heeci irr-Eo.wer for .an exceptional period £ and the 'Opposition consequently, are impatient ta take their places, andi speaking for myselE T ehall not be sorj2B*JL£jtba andinary ewing o£ tha. peauuttm -£?sea them •an opp?>rfci»iita b£ wSrhireally; is the cfcaua actor of - thuir alternative - f«olicy> kXtowrdbhQ people of hhdte-osimtrjs are l ImpeiSal p.eopie, and will cot long consent to ' be. govsmed by Little England ■ ideas.; |&. short time of (Opposition would invigorate and cite Iks ssstessarta flaa. with feteir returq.to- .rtoater, X—cfrcmld. Jock forWai^^iJ! the triilrnph o! due policy aa a tics pfxmcnthg rather than ycara,’**. Melbourne,' January 7« Me Mr Grangor’a cable((i'ete.tmnent that Australia Waa making a commercial treaty with some Other-Power aa one- o£ the silliest utterances over made'-by Australian A'gents-Geooral, and that was- saying a great deal. It was in, oanceivable that-the Commonwealth would' make a commercial treaty with any Power other than - Great Britain; which would be oblivioua ta the fact' that Great Britain keapa her porta open to producta of fc.Ua* tralfd, ■ •v • . -