GENERAL CABLES.
TI-IjE BRITISH BUDGET. By Electric Telograph—Per Press Association—Copyright. The newspapers anticipate that tlve forthcoming British Budget will show a surplus of throe or foiur millions.
THE SUBMARINE DISASTER. LONDON, Feb. 24. Captain Bacon, at the conclusion oE tho submarine disaster enquiry at Queens town, found that an attempt to move the motors electrically iwhile tlic submarine smelt strongly of -petrol vapor, was a violation of the regulations.
GERMAN PUSH. LONDON, Feb. 24. The Reichstag has voic'd the salary for a colonial attache to the Emtbassy at London, whose duty it will he to keep, in touch with British colonial- representatives.
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, SYDNEY, February 25. It is improbable that Towns will accep t the challenge of Du man, the Canadian l (who is a nephew of Iranian), to go to Toronto "to row the championship. Negotiations were opened some time ago, Towns informing him that ho would not visit Canada, unless the whole of tho stake money anti expenses were deposited. He offered to pay Durban's expenses if he visited Sydney. •Rinderpest is prevalent in German New Guinea. One company lost 68 valuable : imported animals.The Methodist mission schooner (Lydia, with Fieri'Lutnow and a native crew aboard, is- missing at New. (Guinea, anfd is supposed to, have been wrecked, MELBOURNE, Feb. 25, Gard’s time Wias- five hours three minutes. The scaffolding of a- building at -Geelong collapsed. A bricklayer saved himself by getting his legs round a cross pole. Fie grabbed a falling mate, dropping safely on to a- .verandah. l ' ! By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. THE SIMPLON .TUNNEL',: ~ COMPLETION OF WORK, LONDON. Feb, 24. A 1 rapid fall or hot water in the northern section of the tunnel is- interpreted at Brigue to mean that the .piercing of the Simplon tunnel from the South was completed yesterday, Snowstorms, however, interrupt the telegraphs, and ith-e fact of completion remains unconfirmed. The tunnel is 13 miles 833 ft in lengthy ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1390, 27 February 1905, Page 1
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