GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1506, 14 July 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

JAPANESE THANKS

By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Colly right LONDOiN, July 12. The Prince. and Princess Arisfigawa oit departing from England, thanked the nation for its warm welcome. an EXHitarn.OiN, i SYDNEY, .July 13. The Princess Louise opens an exhibition of New South -Wales produce at Guildhall, • A PROSPEROUS BANK. 'LONDON, July 12. The Union Bank has declared a dividend of ten per cent., and added to Bank premises in the coionics account ton thousand pounds, to- ollicers guarantee provident funds four thousand pounjk\-rv reserve tiflocn thousand pounds, and has canned fonvard tvienty-sciven • thousand pounds^.

SLAUGHTERERS of PIGEONS. LONDON, July 12. Snooting in the Grand Prix t | c •Casino pigeon match at Aix-ic-bains Donald A|eintosh won with eight straight kails, and secured the -old medal and a stake of four hundred pounds.

CANADA’S DEFENCE. OTTAWA. July 12. Sir Francis Borden; Dominion i\;

i-istci :pt Militia, has announced that it is intended to raise a Canadian militia with a peace footing of sixty Gousiuid, anil ultimately one hundred thousand.

It is recommended that every Canadian under tvventy-Onc years o> age shall undergo twelve davs’ train ing for three - y&irs.

LABOR CONFERENCE. PERTH, July 13.The Labor Conference adopted re solutions in favor'of abolition of the Upper House and State governors, also a tax on unimproved land values.

.MELBOURNE, Julv 13. The Labor Conference lias adopted as planks of its fighting platform tile maintenance of White Australia, nationalisation of monopolies, old age pensions, tariff reform, referendum, progressive tax ami universal land values, ■ restriction of public borrowing, navigation laws, . citizen, defence .force. Arbitration Act amendment ; also resolutions in fa\|or o'" nationalisation instead, of a bonus to the iron industry, and a protest against, the importation of opium except for modicii.ai purposes.

FOOTBALL. SYDNEY, July 13. Tim Otago University football team, arrived in good condition'. ORANGEMEN. SYDNEY, July 13. , An Orange •demonstration at tiie 'town Hall adopted a resolution deprecating the effort now being made to induce the Federal Parliament to adopt a recommendation in favor of Home Rule for Ireland. DRIFTING- IRON. SYDNEY,' July 13. Iron ral’ty .thrown overboard fr*o-m the s.s. Pilbarra when slie was disabled off the New Hebrides, driftc« to the Fly river, a distance of over two thousand miles, in three it! r.tiis.

PRICE OF SUGAR.. ; SYDNEY, July 13. The Colonial Sugar Company has reduced the prices £1 perl ten.

BAPTIST CONFERENCE

GREAT GATHERING'.

By telegraph. Press ’Ass'n, Copyright LONDON, July 13. The first Baptist World Conference 1 is Proceeding at Exeter Hall, present, incltidin'g over one thousand present,.- including over one tlioutaitil from abroad, chiefly from the United States and Canada.

Messrs Richardson, and Carey, spoke on behalf of Australia and New Zealand. . ,