GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1457, 18 May 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

THE COUNTRY'S DEFENCE. By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. *. LONDON, May 10."” Tire Prince or Wales, opening the catleW lieaicl'cßuai'Vers. at H'am’psleail, eulogised the Australian example. He said that colonists had a right to onaoiurago the movement, not in order to militarise the population, but to give training, physical exercises, discipline, ail'd shooting, sufficient for'the 'defence of the couintry. GERMANS CREATE SENSATION, LONDON, May IC. Reports have been received at Tokio that Gorman troops have occupied liaicliri, north of the old channel of the Yellow river. Shanghai •ad|Vfioas slate the fact of the Germans larniing is somewhat doubtful. . The report, it is stated, nossibly is due to a making a Harvey. MILNER’S SUCCESSOR. LONDON, May 13. ' Lord Set borne lias arrived. •AUSTRALIAN. SYDNEY, May 17. The Butter Commission lvas concluded taking evidence, anil will furnish a report to the Government in a fortnight. The Presbyterian Assembly has agreed to an amendment of the siis(tentatiou fund regulations, with the view to better providing for~unfdorpaid clergy.

MELBOURNE, May 17. The Imperial P ositni aster-G cnc ral lias approval .of penny, postcards bo the United Kingdom from June lst.' BRISBAN.E, May 17.

A conference of agriculturists and and graziers at Cairns has resolved in favor of retention of the sugar tonus for ten years. PERTH'; May 17.

The Austrian cruiser ‘Panther lias arrived.. She visits! Australian and New Zealand ports.