GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1439, 27 April 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

I BIBLICAL CRITICISM. ] | ———. , I By, Electric Telegraph—Pei Press 7 I Copyright. s I ' LONDON, April 25. !I ’ Ij) e signatories to ! the declaration on Biblical criticism deprecate pre--1 mature, mistakon commento, and proI mi.se to make a statement later. I * OBITUARY. J- „ LONDON, April 25. I ;; h 0 - dCatll is annominced of Captain I William Henry O’Shea, whose div 0 r- I iced wife married, the late Charles I fatewart Parlnell. . j I BAIL on CHINESE GAMBLING I . DENS. J I ■ • LONDON, April 25. I T.ip police ol New York raided the gambling dens of Chinatown; and ar- I rested, four h.widroci gamblers. « AUSTRALIAN NEWS. I

adel : „ • SYDNEY, April 20. I Uta ultana's patient has small--1 Pox in a moidified form, „ I; ‘ I 7 IC sleamcr Pharsalia, which recently grounded ah Manila, became a g I total wreck. ’I. The importation of New Zealand '8 I potatoes has boon prohibited owing J.to the prevalence of disease. ° J? MELBOURNE, April 26. j The decrease of the Commonwealth J Q o V , t k n! i! e , ior the nine months has been - 1±.340,0u0 more than the estimated •j loss ■ -for the wholly year. Customs | returns • declined on. nearly every I item, excentih'g in Victoria, which I , Ishows an increase of £66,0<00. The ' 'amount of revenue returned hy the I .States shows a considerate decrease I I South .Wales has fallen by I | £77,000, Quieenslanid by £l-12,000. j | Arrangements have been definitely I made for the Pacific Cable Coinforj ence to ho held in London next I I month. '• | 4 | i j I INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. I j ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE AND I GERMANY. I By Electric Telegraph—Per Press j I; Association—Copyright. I I c ,. LONDON, April 25, I I ~ 1 r H- Campbell Batvnorman, in’ a I I letter ,to Admiral Rev.illere, ,vho I has written an article on the AngloFrench entente in the Bretagne Com- ( orcijalie. says: “..Weal! hope that I I t’lie friendship of the two peoples I will grow greater, and be strengthened year by year.” Prioi to th‘? Morocco crisis France I i projected a large expenditure in re- I • •arming the forts of the eastern I: . frontier. It has now transpired * that this was l djue to the extensive I strengthening of the German frontier - railways,_with a view to checking I A France’s interference with Ger- I many’s ambitious projects. I n