GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1454, 15 May 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

.GERMANY, ENGLAND, AND, FRANCE...

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 12.. M. dc Frey cine has written a book on Egypt,‘in which h© u : nsipari!nlgly criticises Germany’s unceasing attempts to perpetuate bad blood between England and Franco prior, to the entente. ■;

BAD NEWS FOR LONDON. , LONDON, May 12., A fatal' case or ccrobro-spimu men- , ingitis has occurred in London. I STRIKE OF BOOTMAKERS. LONDON, -May 12. I Mr Arnold Foster, , kjScqretary for I War-, states that he is unable to re- I ccivo tho deputation ol' bjiojcbbanilpton J workmen who struck: against the I rates or pay aJloWeiKibjrrehhitiritctors I ror army supplies, anti marched to I Loudon to ventilate thoir, grievances. I The men enter London to-day. I CLAIMS IN SAIMOA. I

LONDON, May 12., j fn the 1-I'quso of. Commons to-day, I Earl Percy, in reply to a question,, I said that'an examination was doing j made of Britishers’ claims in Samoa I and stops would be taken;to pay. the I rightful claimants. I

CRICKET RECORD. ! . , LONDON, May 12I Fry, in the second innings of Sus[sex against Mary lob one, made 20C. I This is his second double century, | and establishes a rcciudd.

I .HR BALFOUR’S WARNING, j LONDON, May 12. I Mr Balfour declared that if strategic railways were allowed to creep (closer and closer to the Indian fron- | tier, the country would ha,ve to, pay | for ils supi’ncncss by having to keep J a much larger army than anything it j was possible to contemplate with J equanimity. MR REID’S ELECTION CRY. SYDNEY, May 13. Mr, Reid, speaking at Grafton, re- | ferring to preference to ’unionists, ’• objected to the court being used to. i rent one section of th,c community with horrid injustice. The great need of Australia was to show to every one that Australia was, not on for a Socialistic catastrophe.

.SUORT-SIG lIiTED FARMERS. SYDNEY, May 13. A witness before the Butter Commission, said, in declaring opposition to any Government system or grading* ho Was voicing tho opinion of 75 percent, of the dairy; farnicrs.

G BNERAL BOOTH, . ; . 1 SYDNEY, May 13. General Booth had a rough passage from. Aucklanfd, but stood it well.. Speaking of New; Zealand ho said ho' was agreeably surprised at tho devotion and loyalty of the Ariny officers in connection with work am.orags'fc the people. “ Outside appreciation of and in-

teres,t in my work,” said the General. “ was remarkable. . They dealt with mb"not only in awaffeebiemate manner, but onoouraged me, not because I was, doing good work, hot because I believe they, could see my heart in it.”

TUB PLAGUE, SYDNEY, May 13. Another case of plague has occurred at ■ Lismore. ' .: 1 :

. ; TATURA MURDER. . . , . MELBOURNE,; May. 13. A man suspected pf (; tihe;Tatura tnurider has ' been arrested at Scardalc-- ' •'' ' * ‘ ' ’

PACIFIC ISLANDS, MELBOURNE- May-13. The G,o verno r-Gcn era I has received a cable from 'the- Secretary of the ( .Colonies' intimating that : the German | Government had notified that the ■agreement 'with • the Jaluit Company in the Marsh all Islands had been terriiinated on" Mairch 31st, and from April Ist the' administration, cs- | pecially tile collected revenue, would he transferred l to German Imperial authorities,, who, would immediately revise the regulations, specially as to levying of revenue . taxes, and would .remodel them on a basis of balancing tho revenue aud'-expendi-ture, ' This regulations’ corhD ’lnto force on October Ist.

THE DENGUE, BRISBANE, May 13The dengUQ. epidemic is dying out in the .city. - . : . :