GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1512, 21 July 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH) EMPIRE CLUB* By lehugraDJ?, Pbcsb Abs’so, Cotfyriehh LONDON, 'July 19. (At a meeting of the British Empire (League,, Mu James, Agent-General for Western • Australia, supported a pror pesal to esttiaiUlish « British Empire idiub. 4 General Edwin Coll.cn expressed admiration of the high state of cfliciency of Australian individual military .units. Great Britain ought to lay to heart Australia's remarkable. efforts to train her'youths to arms. BISLEY MEETING, LONDON, July 19.

At Bislcy Chorlton scorod 35 at the 200yds range in the King’s Prize Ijcvino (Nelson) tied, for the Graphic Prize with the highest possible, and in th-. shoot-off won £5. . .TENNIS, MATCH. . . I-I>NJ>.Q;N, July 19,

The Australasian, ’tennis team play, six of the host English players on July 31,

EMPLOYERS OBTAIN DAMAGES, LONDON, July 19. The Kinfe's Bench awarded Ward. Lock, and Company £650 damages from the Operative Printers’ Assistance Society lor inducing workmen to hieak their contracts. RACING: IN ENGLAND, LONDON. July 19. At the Newmarket meeting the D.ullimore Plato resulted :

Mead __ _ . 1 Cherry Ripe Kronstadt OVERBRIDGE TRAMWAYS. LONDON, July 19. The House of Lords rejected the County CorilnoU’s Overbridge Tramway’s Bill by :61 t 0.33, mainly with a desire to prevent Die spoiling of the Thames Embankment. THE MOROCCO CONFERENCE, LONDON, J.uly 19. The newspapers of Berlin are dissatisfied with the terms of the English and Spanish acceptance of the Morocco Conference only if the programme is satisfactory. The real grievance is that the' new. Spanish Ministry has not renounced its predecessors’ policy on the subject, 4 -

’GERMANS AND THE WELSH COAL FIELDS.

By ‘telegraph, Press A'ss'n, Copyright LONDON, July 19. In the House of Commons, Captain Prct.yrnan, Secretary of the Admirty, stated that the Welsh coal field at present was unsold; and it was extremely doubtful if the purchase by Germans .would Ire completed.

GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright MELBOURNE. July. 20. Edwards was found guilty of manslaughteii 'and remanded! for sen-tc-rce.

THE TI-IREE-PARTY SYSTEM IN FEDERAL POLITICS, By telegraph, Press Aps’n, Copyright MELBOURNE, July 20. Mr Pea kin, speaking before the Australian Natives’ Association, said it seemed to Irim some time ago a worthy ambition to try to reduce _tho three pauties of. Parliament to two, but the only manner in which bo managed, to work out that sum ;Itr arithmetic was to increase the parties ‘to four. They had now become three again, and must remain that number so long as the people of the State choose.