GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1377, 11 February 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Fob. 0. ■Tlio Robinstou South African Banking Company has resolved to voiuntarily wind ux> and form a mining, .'ami, and investment trust, with a capital of four mi)lions. [ DEARTH OF CAPITAL. BRISBANE, Feb. It). Sir I-llorace To/.er, speaking at a 'Welcome from the citizen®, said there (Wias mo private .English capital for j investment in Australia while the present uncertainty as to policy continued. Witli that feeling removed Shore Miaul'd ho P.l&nty of money, available. ! ■ ; CLEANING-UP PROCESS. BRISBANE, Peb. 10. A thorough cleansing of the city, an.i the demolition of condemned premises. has been decided upon as the outcome of the plague. PREMIER'S CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, February 10. The State Premiers are not agreed as to the term for which the Braddon. soot ion should ho extended, Some want it permanent ; others for a period. Mr Carruthers, who. opposed the whole financial scheme of the constitution in the convention, expressed the view at the conference that Federation never wonlil work while the soheme remains, and if it' continues Australia will have toi face a reversion to the old system of government,, or an extension or the system of unification. His speech was described by, his colleagues as Singularly able and intensely hitter. A C0,0,L MIDSHIPMAN. I-108 ART, Feb. 10. Uorkc, the missing midshipman l 6 i? the Euralyus, has turned ,up after a trip up country. SEARCH FOR AN EXPEDITION.; BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 9. The Argentine warship Uruguay has returned to Buenos Ayres with the Charcot Antarctic expedition. | It is feared that the Francais Coun- | dered in the storm of April, 1904. ANGLO,-AMERICAN PARCELS POST. LONDON, Fob. 9. - The Standard states that a draft .agreement for an. Angl.o-American parcels post, with a maximum weight of. seventy ounces, has been arranged, 'the two Governments assuming direct transmission.