LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1352, 12 January 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.16 p.m., Jan 11. Sydnoy, Jon 11. Tho production of zino at Broken Hill has incrousod in threo years from nil to 6700 tons, valuod at £113,118. Tho output of silver and load concentrates during tho year was 108,000 tonß, and silver and load oro 15,600 tons. Tho total value of exports was £1,740,000. Two swagsmen in Dologato district, while boiling a billy, started a fire. It was extinguished without damage. They wero sentenced to two months.

At a meeting of tho executive of tho relief fund the reports showed that the j damage had boon exaggerated. j Molbcurno, Jan 11. I To-day was tho hottest day of tho | season —108'6 in the shade. Received 11.54 p.m., Jan 11. I London Jan 11. I In 1904 tho gold output of the Trans- I vaal was 3,779,621 ounces, and the value | 16 millions. I Tho Union Bank has doolarod a dividend I of 10 percent; £IO,OOO has been sot apart I for tho reduction of bank premises in the I colonies; £4OOO for officers’ guarantee I provident fund ; £15,000 for reserve, and I £27,000 carried forward. I Six millions, under the Irish Land Act, I offered at 88, has been covered twice. 'Teodors at £B9, 2s 5d receive 67 per cent. Those above are allotted in full. Tho sitting of tho North Sea Commission will be opon to the publio during statements of faot and evidence. St. Petersburg, Jan 9. Twenty Baku rioters were killed. A hundred oil towers were burnt. New York, Jan. 11.

Seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty Russian Jews landed at New York in five months. Many were deported on the grounds that the immigrants were assietod. Records of deportations have been submitted to Congress with a view to taking steps for lessening the influx. Received 12.45 0.m., Jan 12. Sydney, Jan. 11. Sydney : Sailed, tho Zealaodia.