GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1524, 4 August 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

: ONLY CARETAKERS.” jy telegraph, Press Ass'n, ‘Copyright LONDON, August 2. Mr ‘Asquith, in a speech at Sheffield, said that all; Liberals' acknowledged Lord Lansdowne's success as Foreign Minister, but foreign Govern incuts knew they, were dealing iduly. ■with caretakers. ■EDUCATION AREAS.

LONDON, August 2. •Sir William" Anson, secretary of ' the Board of Education, proposgsiitd 1 ' temporarily sfoUve \i- the- nccessitciuS, * area problem, by allowing locaPffauF'Uioritics to exclude from the schools " • children under five;'.years, of. ago. •1 SUCCESSFUL GAMBLERS. " PARIS, August 2. A vivandicre of Dragoons won a million francs in the press lottery. COMMERCIAL TREATIES, j PARIS, August 2. I A Franco-Russian commercial treaI ty lias been drafted. I Tne French delegates are returning I to Paris to submit a draft to the I .Government. •YELLOW FEVER. NEW YORK, August 2> : " Yellow fever is snjreading at New Orleans: > f t -FIGH]T AMONG STATES. : NEW YORK, August 2. A conflict lias arisen between the States of Mississipi and Louisiana,' owing to the former's quarantine boats sei-lng- Louisfiana Ashing boats, and imnnirnug the crews. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

1 j SYDNEY, August 3. Arrived ; s.s. Ayrshire,- from Auckland. - Notwithstanding the rough passage, Mr Stead's horses, which ■were aboard the steamer, were landed in excellent form.

The. Premier, referring to Mr Coghlau’s statement, remarks that it is hardly correct to say that the New South Wnlcsi Government 7 are cancelling orders placed in Ger- : many, simply because no orders are to be cancelled. The Government have decided, however; that no orders should be given till the Mar-

shalls’ displiite is settled. It was correct that other States had been asked to take similar action. V Senator Smith, in tiie Senate, re-

j ferring to the Australian squadron, I said the whole question of the naval I agreement was most unsatisfactory. I Tiie ships which had been agreed I upon, for which the Commonwealth I was stipulated to pay *1200,000 a year, had not been placed on the I station. AVihen the Bill was introI duced, Mr Barton stated there would Ibe 1000 Australians and New ZeaI landers employed on the vessels. I instead of which up to the present, j thc-ie were only 628. A deputation representing the churches and federated Chambers! ‘ of 1 Commerce waited on Mr Dcak-in to [urge action respecting the mnsatis-: factory position of affairs in the New Hebrides'; for-Australian interests concerned. 4 Mr Deakin w.as sympathetic, and said that since January last there had been a deadlock in the negotiations. The Commonwealth had iniade s trong represent a-. tions as fo a permanent settlement; of the affairs of the islands and the maintenance of the rights of British settlers rested With the exercise of powers which 'the Commonwealth did not possess.

BRISBANE, Aug. 3. The Government have completed arrangements' for Orient steamers to eali at Brisbane. The. amount of the subsidy isi not. divulged.