GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1425, 8 April 1905, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

'ITALIANS AND THE KAISER, By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON. April 6. The Italian press is unsympathetic Stith ilia Kaiser’s policy, an Morocco, HIS MAJESTY* LONDON, April 6King Edward has .started to join tha jQuecm at Marseilles., HEADMASTER OR ETON, LONDON* April ffi. Canon Lyttelton, headmaster; oE Haileybury. College,; succeeds Dr Ware as headmaster ol Eton;, The latter has resigned.

AUST'RALIAN MAILSLONDON, April 6. Neither tko'Postmaster-G-eneral nor. the Orient; Company have received coniinnation ofl the mail contract; both are inundated with enquiries from shippers and merchants who are anxious that tho Ormuz should take next week’s mails. THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, LONDON, April 6. The Berlin newspaper Lokal'Au'zieger, says, with reference to Lord Lausdowne’s statement as to the Mars&alTlslanclSj that objection lias alseady been raised in Berlin to tho Jaluil Company acting in a dual capacity as government and traders, and it is anticipated .that .the matter will bo remedied.

TURKS AND BULGARIANS,: CONSTANTINOPLE, April ,Turkish regiimbntg annihilated a gSulgari'an baud; ofi ah Lestcayaubopc,, (themselves losing sis. •ALLEGED, conspiracy, • ■ 1 PATHS,. AEril 6. • Captainj Taroburini, a half-pay onicer, hag been arrested, in Paris for conspiracy, resembling the .Mialet conspiracy in 1812. I-Io had five hundred uniforms, and eight thousand cartridges concealed in a garret. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. BRISBANE, April 7 V

A new meat company, with a capital of £50,000 has been formed at Townsville, for tbs purpose of acr. quiring the Alligator Crook works.; ADELAIDE, April 7-< The 'Employers’ Federation Conference adopted resolutions urging on all employers and others in the Commonwealth She necessity of maintaining freedom of contract ; the necessity of thoroughly orgamisimgiOWing 'to the Socialistic trend of _ the legislation of,the State and Federal; Parliaments ; that the Immigration Act bars the progress of the Commonwealth, is hjurtful to Imperial sentiments, and not justified; that, owing to tho natural conditions,: it is impossible to cultivate tropical lands in [Northern Australia solely by; Europeans : t . sympathising With the sugar growers of Queensland, who are threatened with a disastrous crisis by the exclusion Of Polynesians. and asking the Federal Governmenb to adopt measures toi avert a crisis*

SYDNEY, April) 7* , (Experts estimate that there .■will be thirty-nine million sheep. in the State all the end of the yeaw The Factories report shows that the wages paid last year totalled £5,003,000, compared with a total oi £0,050,000 in 1903, although a larger number were employed last (gear.? Tne Daily Telegraph, commenting on tho New Zealand unionists’ abjections to some o£ the recent decisions of tho Arbitration Court, says that arbitration in New: Zealand lias yet to meet the test under which ib broke down here, of a large body, getting ,an adverse award, aiijd from. [ the threats made by the _ Otagoi Trades and Labor Council, it looks highly probable that the reslulh of such a trial would be (the same aa in New South Walesj \ jHBL'BOU'RNE, April 7-

Fifty, more disciples ol Dowie arc leaving for Zion City. The Postmaster-General had a long interview with a representative of the Orient Company- The points in dispute in the mail contract' negotiations have developed into what is considered to. ha a somewhat critical state. Prospects of ,> settlement are not considered s'o hopeful. [Negotiations will be resumed 'to-Uay-The Postmaster-General also had an ,'interviiew with Mr James Mills in connection with the .Vancouver service. 1-Ie declines to state the exact position! in either case. The British Empire League is issuing an appeal throughout the Commonwealth with the object of securing the celebration, of Empjiro Day; on May 24th. . _ Mr Bruce-Smi'th declined to attend the meeting of the Government party during the recess owing to the Government plolicy of passive resistance to Socialism. I-Ic says it docs not go _ far enough. An active policy should bo followed.