GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1440, 28 April 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

THE ORIENT COMPANY,

Bj) Electrto Telegraph—Per Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, April 20. The report of the Orient Company, ; Shows a credit- balance or £38,,300 which has. been carried to reserve. The Company has paid a dividend of five per cent, on preference shares, and the directors recommend five per Cent, out of tint deferred shareholders'- reserve. THE ftiDtEiN; FRONTIER. LONDON, April 26. Thv. Aden frontier diapjnte has- been fmalli settled, the Porto accepting the British proposals. HIS MAJESTY. Hu's Majesty, King Ed Ward has arrived at Ajaccio. He dines at l-li« Ely see on " S-ui.i----day. Mid rttturinsi to London on Monday p

MANUAL TRAINING. LONDON, April 26. Sin John Cookbtiirn addressing the National Association on the manual training of. teachers at Birmingham, advocated manual training as the high i-oaid to mental development. RACING IN ENGLAND.

LONDON. April 26. At the Epsom Spring Meeting the City and Suburban Handicap requited ■—

•Pharisee ... ... 1 ■Ambition ... ... 2 Dean Swift . ... ... -1 3 AMERICAN AMBASSADOR. NEW .YORK, April 26

Mr W'liitelaw Reid was entertained at a farewell ba-nq(uet in New York, prior to his departure for London, where he succeeds Mr Choate a.n American Ambassador. He said the mutual goodwill of Britain, and America was never so high a* at present, and nothing was likely, to impair the good undcrstanlding. Nothing would be able to, provarit ;»h®

two groat branches of line English race advancing silde by. side onward and upward in (the march .of fenmaaity.

•A JAPANESE .TRIUMPH. OTTAWA, April 26

Tine Dominion Parliament disallowed an enactment by British Columbia against Japanese immigrants on ifci.e green'd of inoompatfbiiity nvifcb Imperial interests. . A DEADLY DISEASE.

BERLIN, April 26

Cases of cerebral meningitis . are reported from all parts of Germany, though a majority occur- in mining dyet riots.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE, April 27

Before the Tariff 1 Commission representatives of manufacturers of agricultural iimlDioments asked for the in notation of a. heavy duty to prevent Americans flooding the market.. (They declared that a ring existed,, acting adversely, on- local makers. SYDNEY. April 27'

A deputation .of employers and emflo.yeos of the iron trade arranged with the Premier, s|ujbject to Cbtbiije'i enidonsement, for. the construction oi locomotives jeejuired for the State , at a price representing an adyajitage: of .5 to per. cent, to the Clyde . Engineering Company, compared with prices previously paid by the Staio, but a 1 so a reduction of £46,000 on ftha. Company’s original : offer., - ... The Australian Workers’, .Uniatij announce,; ' it* policy; for. the earning shearing’ eea®o : n. as ‘the’ sambas last, BsWpting the abolition .of the daily wage system in New South 1 W*Je», It adds Not that , we have "abandoned our claims to better Wlagoe or conditions, the vast improvement, of the pro*®,ec%fl b* £h» pastoral ip--iiuraferjj "dfavfiig. strengthened’ fehesm' cJairne.” The membership - has itu, creased Boarly 6000. A schema of. amalgamation has oeon eompfe'ie'd, binding gainmaa -b(us34 unionists iia on* bpdjsi feh'-rpM'ghonik the CommopiwaaithTh* Union propose® the collaohicm; of evi clone* ill the wjmi ng season. : • iwffbh. Bit* object of placing before the ’ Arbitration Court a .siaiin Son bsarfctww pva'ges and condition*. • ■ ; The Boot Manufacturers’ AssociaOkyn decided, owing to fohe fepasssty, of IsahhaiSi ifed, inorcaii-a ith«* pprica bftoltes • ’ ’