GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1375, 9 February 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

‘A REMARKABLE EVICTION.

I By Electric Telegraph—Per Press I Association—Copyright. I LONDON, February 7. I TJho Office of Works has evicted the occupants of the Milk Fair at St. James’ Parle, •who have been-in 1 possession 'of the site since James I. [ granted them leave to use the ground. A CANDID CRITIC. LONDON, ‘February 7. Lend Lonsdale, in a letter to the Daily, Chronicle, says that the tlobate on Mr Deakin’s motion showed the arrant hypocrisy and meanness of the whole movement for preforph- I tial trade in Australia. I AUSTRALIAN MAILS. I

LONDON, February 7. Mr Donald Murray, in a letter to | ahe Times, comments on the anomalies of the' Orient Dompany.fs steamer leaving without the mails while tons of correspondence awaits the next) P. and O. steamer. The use of the French packet may assume portentous dimensions. • In the absence of reciprocity between the Motherland and the colonics, Mr Murray condemns the short-sighted policy of the Common wealth'. OBITUARY. LONDON, February 7. Obituary i George Bond I-I'awes, zoologist and examiner in zoology a itci comj)arati/ve, ana-tomy, to tho University of New, Zealand. EMIGRATION OF JEWS. LONDON, February 7. Mr RothsOhild, to encourage the emigration of Bast End Jews, is negotiating for the establishment of colonies in Manitoba and the northwest territories! Canada offers free grants of land, which ■ becomes the settlers’ property in three years if properly cultivated. GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME. . LONDON, February 7. Sir William Willcocks proposes an irrigation scheme in connection with the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. The cost for the first of fifteen sections will be eight millions. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. [ 'VIENNA, February. 7. The Kossuth . party are resisting Julius Andrassy’s efforts to form, a Government. Kossuth insists that there is nothing in common between Austria and Hungary, except the person of tho Sovereign and the obligation pf mutual defence. THE PLAGUE.: BRISB ANE, Feb. S. Another fatal and another fresh ease of plague are reported.