GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1451, 11 May 1905, Page 1

GENERAL

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Bjs Electric Telegraphs—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May f). -A- team of .Transvaal! ers cbmpo'tc at Bisley. THIRTY THOUSAND GUINEAS FOR A RACEHORSE, LONDON, May 9’. Sir William Bass has purchased the racehorse Cyllcne for thirty thousand guineas. ALPINE FATALITIES. LONDON. May. 9. An avalanche in -the Austrian Alps killed two Austrian urtrf-essQhs and airothor climber. BOOTMAKERS ON, STRIKE. LONDON, May 9. Northampton makers of army hoots.have struck for higher wages. One hundred arc marching to London 'to intoirvticwi Mr Arnold Forster.'

WEALTH BEGOTTEN OF THE TURF. LONDON, May 9. The estate of the late W. S. Sicvier, turf oommistion "agent, lias been proved at £83.000,

A COURT CENSURE. / BERLIN, May 0. The Supreme Couro at Berli,ti indirectly censured the methods of the Prussian Minister of Justice at ICoiir igsburg, in a “ lese majesto ’’ trial. TAINTED MONEY-”

NEW .YORK, May 9. i Apropos of Mr Roekfeller’s gift of £20,000 for missions, clergymen in America have formed a commit tee to educate public opinion against accepting for ■ religious punpioses money from tain tod sources like trusts. INSURGENTS’ VICTORY. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 9. The insurgents captured 30 guns ail'd 20,000 rifles, and much ammunition at Sanaa. < They permitted the garrison and Turkish officials to leave, MORE PLAGUE CASES. BRISBANE, May ‘lO. Two more cgses of plague ha'vc occurred at Ipswich, ANXIETY FOR A STEAMER. ■NORFOLK ISLAND, May. 10. The non-arrival up to yesterday, of the steamer Indiana from Sydney, is causing anxiety. Strong easterly winds have prevailed for, several days, and there is a record high glass. AUSTRALIAN. SYDNEY,. May 10. At . the annual session of tne Prose jbyteruian General Assembly, the Moderator elect, the Rev.. Alex. Mc'Kinlay, in an address, declared that mechanical equality was opposed ,to ithe laws of creation, anil . would be ‘a bane. 'Socialism was'materialism. Referring to' the Scottish churches’ dispute, he declared they must deni and .that liberty shall hot he lilchod from; people by the caprice of the law. Before the Lands Commission, evidence, was tendered .that .Willis,, an cx-member' of the Assembly, was Paid £OOO for undertaking to. secureconversion of a certain lease into improvement leases. The Land (Board blocked the proposal. and the money was subsequently, repaid after an action, at law. Other witnesses Stated that £6715 was paid as commission in connection with the repurchase by itho Government of the Myall Creek estate, Willis, receiving a cheque for £4232, MELBOURNE, May 10. Four thousand " five hundred new army, pattern) rifles have been delivered to the Commonwealth. Tlic arrangements made by, the Butter Committee and Victorian Ministry ‘ofleots a saying in freight of £3 10a per ton..