GENERAL CABLES.
THE NAJVtK ESTIMATED iJ
By Electric Telegraph—Pen Ere®a Association—Gopyrifjhtfj _ 'LONDON, Eebj 133. Tho Daily ’lYlegrapli states rfcbali the Navy estimates milt Jjo arGtllTccit by three million pounds sterling.
A ROMANCE SPOILED. , . LONDON, Feb. 34. Crishey’s supposed will, which it was sai’d conferred a fortune on a poor family at Tha.nct, lias pro ved to be only a lease. LARGE BEQUESTS. LONDON, Feb, 14. Janies ED. Luckiugs, formerly of South Australia, has bequeathed. £IOO,OOO .to Nonconformist charities and over. £30,000 to London hospitals, A COSTLY STRIKE.
i BERLIN, February 14. Tile cost of the Westphalian strike to ail concerned was ninety million marks, including eighteen million marks for wages. ROYAL’ HONORS , ,TO THE DEAD. BERLIN, February 14. The Kaiser add Kaiserin and all the Royalties in Berlin attended Menzel’s funeral. THE PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE. HOBART, February 15. The State Premiers are still discussing Sir George Turner’s latest proposals re -taking over the debts. ■Sir G-. Turner will not now oiler more than fifteen years’ extension of , ■tile H rad cion clause. The Premiers I demand! at least fifty years.
A; RICH MINE, MELBOURNE, February 15. The half-yearly report of the Broken Hill Proprietary mine shows that the net profits for the halfyear were £136,000. The total output of silver was 2,564,342 ounces, an increase on the previous half-year of nearly 39,000 ounces. WELCOME RAIN. . SYDNEY, February 15. Two inches of rain feu in Sydneyand 3in in the suburbs in two. hours last pight. , •■ ■■'• ' 1 AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SYDNEY, February, 15.. Air Watson, referring t'o the mail diificjulty, says he does not think the 'Commonwealth justified in . pay- j ing anything like what the Orient Company asks. When it is a question of paying £IOO,OOO above the cost of sending the mails under the po'uindage system the game is not .worth the candle. | .THE PLAGUE, BRISBANE,. Feb-. 15. I Two fresh cases of plague occurred i this wock, J
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1381, 16 February 1905, Page 1
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