GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1435, 20 April 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

COST OE EDUCATION.

I By; Electric Tclegraplir-Per Press I Association —Copyright. LONDON, April 17. >| The Bonilon Comity Council’s-Edu-cation Committee repp-rte that it, costs £523,,495 yearly to provide elementary education n London voI limitary schools,, causing a largo inI crease of the rates. TRUST LOAN COMPANY. I LONDON, April ’ 17. The British- Australasian Trust Loan Company’s report shows' a profit ol' £28,000. - ~ I Tiio sum of £II,OOO was carried forward. LOAN COMPANY’S DEBIT. LONDON, April 17. The report of the Australian and New (Zealand Mortgage and Loan Co. | shows a debit balance of £64,000, 1 The growth of the balance was mainly due to the sale of certain cattle and properties in Queensland j —although the terms wore the best obtainable.

' INCOME TAX. !i LONDON, April 17. •Mr Justice Palmer, of the King’s I Bench, in deciding that the Dc -Beers Com Daily is resident in the .United. I Kingdom for the p,uruosos of income I tax, ’declared his view that colonial incorporation should, bo recognised I incorporation in every copr-t ot the Empire, I The judgment affects the profits' i-.t the 'diamond mines for the financial I year 1901, the assessment of the sum Of £1,557,000 involving Payment of £77,859. 7’lie company appeals. ! THE ENGLISH- LANGUAGE. 1 , ' , CAIRO, April 18. A Khedival decree issued at Cairo admits the use of English as the judicial language in connection with mixed tribunals. ITALIAN STRIKE, ROME, April 18. The Italian railway strike was due to the State Management of Railways Bill.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, , SYDNEY, April 18. Sir Joseph Ward was entertained by Ministers at dinner at the Hotel Australia. Speeches appreciative of the pleasant relations between New Meal and and New South Wales were made.

SYDNEY, April 19. /One of the plague patients ‘has succumbed.

The dockey Club has amended its rules so as to exclude bookmakers from membership.

TI.M.S. E-uryalus lias returned, fronii Hobart under a full sp,eed trial, covering 22 knots. The Lord Mayor's bush fires fund has been closed, Tlie moneys remaining in'hand will be distributed, MELBOURNE, April 19. The Board of Works loan of £414,000, carry ng four, per cent." interest, has been largely over-sub-scribed, It averaged £99 6s 7d. HOBART, April 19. A landlord of an hotel was fined £SO for having indiik possossjalh a portion of the cigars and cigarettes smuggled from the Warship Cadmus, The man who induced the landlord to purchase’ them deserted. ADELAIDE, April. 19. The inter-Stato confe-rcnco of licensed victuallers -decided to form a federal organisation. It resolved that local option without compons-),- . -lion was a gross breach of faith andrepudiation. .