GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1508, 17 July 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

TENNIS TOURNAMENT. By. -telegraph, Pros:; Ass'n, Gouyrighfc' LONDON, July 14. 'At the tennis- tournament, for. tlVa International Gulp singles, Australasia beat Austria, Brook's beating •K in.-/ 1! tiy tbreo sots to love, .and Wilding beating > Wesley by tbreo to one. In tho 'doubles, Brooks and Wilding beat Kinze anil Wesaley, ’ >y. two sets to love. TRADE WEIGHTS. LONDON, Julv 14. The Board of Trade lias autihorisoa weights of, twenty, ten, and live pounds. VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT., LONDON, July 14.

The debate of Mr Arnold Forster s Q-Ucged hostility to the Volutitoor movement resulted in a-G-CiVornurent' majority of twuu'ty-six. , Mr Arnold Forster, explained that the circular issued by the War -Office Was intended to ascertain the nsumbor whom they were able to roly itpon for service abroad in. war-time. IMMIGRANTS TO CANADA. LONDON, July 1-i.

Router’s -Agency reports, in con. ncctior with the Canadian Governments arrangement- with the North Atlantic Company, cabled or. June 'twenty-fourth, that Sir WiiTrid Laurier explained that the North 'Atlantic Company's immigrants were or a good class ; moreover the Commo-ny din its own advertising, while the Canadian Government, boro the expense of advertising in Britain.

French politics ENGLAND AND FRANCE. PARIS, July 14. French naval officers declare that if; was not the Rouvicr-Radolin agreement which averted ‘war. -but England’s 'firm support of France. ' AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SYDNEY, July 15. Tho last few d;ays a number of plague-affoctccl nats’ have been caught close to Darling liarbo-r wharves. PERTH', July 15. In the Suipreme Court an application to qnjash the warrant •* against W. N. ,Willis was heard. An affidavit by Willis denied that-ho had committed fruud, and assert,d that the proceedings were taken for the purpose of notoriety. Patrick Rone, in an affidavit, stated that Willis had no interest in the laud in question, and no collusion with him. A third affidavit by John Want declared that Willie’ action disclosed no offenco against tho Laud Aot. Tho heariDg was adjourned until Monday.