GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1428, 12 April 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

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By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDQN,- April 10. The (Mullah -has l>eeiv, given a seaport at Ulig i'ofl his headquarters. ‘ . UN O CCUI ME D. HOUSES., - LONDON,' April TO.' There arc forty .thousand un'tcnantoil houses in Lop do n,.. owing to tho high municipal rates. ' BILLIARD MATCH. a- - , v Tr L«NBON, April 10. Weiss beat Han verson at billiards by, SOOO against 7523. At WHITE KUSTRAEM tVJCTOm ' .LONDON, April 10. Inc u lines states that the Orient steamship Or run zia manned by a white crew. —Her Lascar, sailors arc returning to Colombo, as gdssengeis. Tho Ormuz, embarks mails at Naples. ■A MUSIC HOUSE STRIKE. - : ’ April 10. Owing to: want of protection » against music pirates, nineteen of the chief 'publishing-:houses have decided not to publish'new music; neither to pay, composers, %i to advertise. . AUSTRALIA’S TRADE. , LONDON,. Aipril 10. Mr Coglan, Acting Agent-,General for New South Wales, writing to Mho Times, correcting a Sydney correspondent shows that Australian imports in 1901 declined .by £1,8,75,263, not by £6„710,470, as tho correspondent asserted ; or, if those imports had been required for homo consumption, the. .decrease would have been .£1,615,720. It was fatuous to assn,me that Britain was the greatest sufieron by tho decline, which was caused by tho cessation or State borrowing and non-import of private capital. Australia had a right- to be proud; of the surplus ' of £5,500,00 0 on her trade. Ho contradicts -the assertion that,population is declining, and complains that campaign misrepresentation is the chibf cause of the avoidance of Australia btv British immigrants. , CAUSE /OF WRECK OF : THE ■ALBANY. ' SYDNEY, April 11., Ibo Marine Court found that tho loss cf the steamer Albany was duo to neglect 'of the chief officer* Mr, Flint, who was called upon to show cause why His certificate should not he dealt with. EARTHQUAKE RECORDS. MELBOURNE. April 11. The seismograph at the observatory recorded an oartijunk'o at a time equivalent to the Indian shocks last week. THE POTATO DISEASE. HOBART, April 11. A proclamation is gazetted,, absolutely prohibiting the importation of potatoes froiir New Zealand- and' Norfolk Island