GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1483, 17 June 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

.GEIUIAiNiWS FRCCAUTI ONS.

By, Electric Telegraph—Pei Press Association—Copyright. BO.NDOiNj June 15. .Germany, is begin iniiiug to fortify ICaiaoliau; ' i": ; , . . THE NAVAL DISASTER. LONI)hn, Jlimb-15. ' Three of the worn dad aboard!’' ifch'd Maguificont have sucuuunbod. NAVAL PREFA RATIONS., ,

WASHINGTON, June 15. The Uni,ffad States N.av.y is already replacing oue-pi.»unuers in the fighting tops, wi th range finders.'. NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

STOCKItOLM, .June 15., King Oscar, in a manifesto thanking olio Swedish peop.io fon their sympathy, says vJ i

‘>l Norway’s broach of the sacred laws has in,(lictocl inou.ra.blo wounds in my heart.” ' Swedish opinion docs not fajvor Norway's coercion AUSTB.YOY,^EWH, I'S.yiyN.EV, ii.in,‘ L 6.

T.ha . Minister lor Lands • informed the Plo.use that it wiaa impossible to, give unlimited scope to tbo present Lands Commissioni, Any specific re- | coin,luoxidation lor enquiry made by .the' Commissioner ,w;o.u.ld, be given immediate effect. Tiie income tapa returns ■ tiiis K , year, injdiqate a general revival pf industrial affaire.

The -repoirt of the Comptroller oi

.'Prisons shows that the number off inmates in. .the gaols have, decreased both actually, and in proportion to the population. ‘ln 1891 the prison population was o,ne in every lib ‘ of the general population, in 1904 one in 777.

Mr Reid, in replying to Cardinal Moran, cited the Bishop, of Wilcannia against the Socialistic tendencies of the labor, legislation in his diocese.

Towns an,d Stansbury have begun 'active training. The censure debate lias been adjourned.

The President of the Board of Health declares that Sydney may now, be considered free from, plague. The Government have finally decided not to on'gage Doctor Danysz to conduct experiments for the extermination of rabbits. PERTH, June 16.

Since the last election the n,uniff or of names on the rolls have ‘decreasel! from 168,836 to the total of 116,286..