GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1496, 3 July 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By, Hiectcie Telegraph—Par Press Association—Copyright. STj PETERSBURG, Juno 30. jVI. • Cassini becomes Uuder-Secre-tc iy to the Foreign- Office. LONDON, June 30. .la the House of Couiinjoinsi, Captain Piety man, during the debate in Gora‘m it lee of Siupply on the Navy. Estimates,: said that uwin'g to the int.matc connection between design and strategy, it was to the interest of the nation to,: bring before the House new desi'gns of warships. Tiie bye-ciectioh to fill ‘tlie vacancy caused .by the death of Mr Richards iresulted in the return of IVIr ,J. A. Baker, Radical, who polled 2320 to 1500 votes cast for Mr Cohen, Unionist.

The Cape frontier police report that JViarcsnigo was killed on the Ist by German troops..

SYDNEY, July If Buring the wool year 575,200 bales were shipped, 11,800 above ,tlie number last year. The •revenue returns for tlie year I show £60,000 over last, year, leaving a surplus of £157,000 after paying £300,000 off the public debt. The balance returned from the Commonwealth was £31,529,000, a decrease: of £154,000.

Before the Land Commiss on. the manager of Edols and Co. gave evidence that. lie paid Willis six thousand poUncte for arranging certain leases. The Commission adjojutruied sire die. The Commissioner intimated that- he wdul'd probably ask for an extension of time to enquire into the question of land exchanges.

! Speaking at the sheep show, the Mil is ter for Agriculture r stated that he believed the coming wool clip would be one of the best in the history ot the State. He estimated that: forty million sheep' wo.uld he shorn, yielding six to seven and a half pounds of wool each.