GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1514, 24 July 1905, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i London, July 21. i An auto-oyeio at Brighton ran at' the rate of S 6 miles au hour for a short distance. .. Nearly 200 persons at Birmingham are suffering from serious ptomaine poisoning, due to ice-cream obtained at street barrows. No fatal oases are reported. Tho Committee of Public Accounts farther report that the short weight on jam mistake was mainly attributable to misdescription in tho Army Service Corps officers' books, confounding the roal and aominal weights.

Tbe Piorpont Morgan 'shipping combine lost £60,000 on the year’s working. Bishop Harder, of Adelaide, has been enthroned as Bishop of Rochester. The KiDg telegraphed to M. Ronvier, thanking Franco for its sympathetic reccption of the fleets. M. Rouvior replied that the Government were delighted at tho proof of reciprocal sympathy of the two nations. Captain Pretyman states that the Whitworth coalfields are outside tbe area where coal suitable for the Navy is found. The price paid showed that the purchase was insignificant. In the first stage of the Ht. George’s Match at Bisloy, Craw, with a score of 65, qualified to shoot iu the second stage. The text of Lord Ourzon’s speech has been published. The Viceroy made attack on the Government, and though his re- I marks were outspoken, they attracted bat little criticism in India, where they were generally approved. The Eclipse Stakes resulted : Valdor 1, Cicero 2, Llaogibby 3. :

Berlin, July 21. Owing to the scarcity of meat the prices in Berlin have risen 25 per cent, in throe months. The butchers are agitating for a repeal of the prohibition of the importation of cattle. Copenhagen, July 21. A division of the German fleet has arrived bore. Pekin, July 21. Chinese at Shanghai have begun an active boycot of American goods in retaliation for exclusion laws.