GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1497, 4 July 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

SWJiMMING CHA MPIONSHIP,

By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, July 3. In the mile swimming ohamipionsiiio at 1-ligbgabe Poimls, Kiera-n (the Australian;)' led) for half tiro distance and then Billinglon eventually won in 31 min. 42 sec., finishing 50 yards ahead of Kieran. Seventy -thousand people were present.

tennis tournament. LONDON, July 2. Tit the tennis. toußnamont, ' Gyro heat Wilding, and. Brookes beat Riseley. reaching the semi-finals ire the ■singles, ‘while Brookes and D ead op are still unbeaten in the doubles. ROYAL CONDOLENCE. WASHINGTON, J.mly 2.

King Edward was tile first foreign ruler bo .condoleJ-kwith President Roosevelt cm Mr May’s death. TBK CHINESE BOYCOTT. PEKIN, July 2.

In consequences of urgent representations from Washington, the Chinese Viceroys, and Governors have •been ordered to stop the anti-Ameri-can agitation to boycott American goods.

A POLITICAL CRISIS. BUDA-FESTH, July 2. jVt. Fejervay has called a conference of the Opposition, but the leaders failed to suggest a compromise enabling a majority to underbake to form a Cabinet. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Perth, July 3. When Parliament mceta nn Thursday Mr liasore, Leader of the Labor Party, will submit a censure, motion. Melbourne, July 3. Mr Samuel Turnrr, managing director of a fiunof Manchester butter shippers, states tin t the Siber'an butter trade with Britain is increasing phenomenally. He suggests that Australian producers should eliminate the middleman as much as posfible, so as to decrease the cost of placing the butter on the retail market. Mr Bent, Premier of Victoria, announces a surplus of half a million pounds. The Federal revenue for the year was £5,758,000. The Treasurer’s estimate was £8, 906,000,