GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1364, 27 January 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

DALAI LAMA WORKING UP. MISCHIEF. By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 25. 'flic Dalai Lama gave audience to a Russian official at Urga, Mongolia. il-lo probably visits. St. Petersburg. GAOL FOR SWINDLERS. LONDON, January 25. Herbert Bedford and J. .A. Lowe, directors, aiitl George Shcad, audiibor, worn sentenced to six. mouths, for conspiracy in publishing false statements aiwl prospectus of Lowe, Sons and Bedford. WHITE LABOR. LONDON, January 25. Owing to the non-renewal of the Orient mail contract, live Post OilTiee announce that mails will occasionally. be sent by, French steamers. BRITISH PRECAUTIONS. LONDON, January 25. Mr ArnoKdt. Forster states, that 120 liewi guns will ibo delivered next week anil 500 in 1906. DANGEROUS FUMES. LONDON, January 25. Fumes from a charcoal stove asphyxiated thirty women at a Primitive Methodist working meeting at Blackpool, AUSTRALIAN. .SYDNEY, Jan. 26. Three hundred more summonses arc about to be issued in connection with tlio Newcastle strike. The Ellamore IVale miners, after being idle for tliiee months, have decided to resume, and will do wheeling in place of the wheelers. The New South Wales Athletic Association are considering a suggestion made Ivy the New Zealand Association to: sein'd two < Australian runners to compote against Shrubb and Du,Key in New Zealand. -BRISBANE, Jan. 26.

The session has closed. The Premier agreed to a. minimum wage of 6s 6d per day on railways constructed by day, labor.