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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1401, 11 March 1905, Page 1

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official appointment. By Electric Press Association—Copy right. LONDON, March 9. Mr Maurice do Brinson, of the Paris Embassy, has succeeded the late Sir; M. Goaselin as British Minister Minister a t Lisbon. OBSOLETE VESSELS. LONDON, March 9. Among t-lio vessels condemned by, the Admiralty, to be sold as obsolete are tho Ringarooma, Maldura, Katoomba, Wallaroo, Boomerang, Tauranga, and Karrak-at'ta. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. , SYDNEY, March 10. The Premier, Mr Carruthers, ,declined a request to contribute an additional £ISOO to tho hush fires relief fund- I Speaking in the country, Mr Car- I ruthers said that he hoped before ho I delivered his next Budget lie would be able to ask Parliament to con- I struct three ox, four railways. The I Government .would not issue any I more four per cent. Treasury bills ; hut would reduce the rate to 3A-. Tho Methodist Conference adopt- I ed a resolution denouncing racing I sweeps and the liquor traffic. Tho steamer Pil'barra dropped one of her propeller blades between Syd- I ncy and Noumea. It is feared that one more lias since been lost, causing I delay in her arrival at Fiji. Herbert Rogers, manager of tho Bank of Australasia at Wallsend, ■ has been committed to trial for cm- ] b.czzli-nig £SOO of the bank’s moneys. ( A cablegram from Siu,v a states that the steamer Pi I barra is now con- I

sidcrably, overdue from Noumea. - , BRISBANE, March 10. Another case of plague is reported