GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1538, 21 August 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By] tolcgrapb, Press A'ss’n, Copyright

London, Aug. 18. A conference of Manchester cotton spinners and. operatives established a modus vivondi, giving the operatives twelve weeks’ bonus of 5 por cent. The notice of reduction of wages issued at Bolton has been withdrawn, and the whole question will.be revived in 190 G. The Dovenport dockyard is experimenting on Australian teak and Now Zealand Moa wood for use, tho teak in backing armour plates on tho cruiser Minotaur, and the New Zoaland wood for deck planking on the Royal Sovereign. * Paris, Aug, 18, The newspapers urge the Government to adopt coercion on the Moroccan frontier in connection with Algerian prisoners at Fez. Bombay, Aug. 18. Owing to failure of the monsoon, hundreds of villagers are starving in Chingoepat, district, Madras. The Government have'opened reHef works. Constantinople, Aug. 18. The Turks, advancing steadily, captured Sukolkhamis, and occupied Bian, 22 miles south of Sanaa.

We venture to predict that with the return of spring: and a few weeks of warm sunshine (whatever sign of depression may exist will be dissipated, and the tide of progress and prosperity will flow again as strongly as ever.—New Plymouth Herald.

Bonds and bank notes to tho value of £92,000, the proceeds of a bank robbery in Wilmington, in the American State of Illinois, have been found by a workman when unloading a railway waggon full of sand at Bedford, in Indiana.

“ Money is in abundant supply almost everywhere” cheerfully states an Auckland journal. Mr Massey has lost a splendid opportunity of displaying a magnanimous and sympathetic attitude. He might have , shared the credit of this particular policy, but partizanship has been too much for him. He has done his utmost to thwart the Premier’s generous purpose and to misrepresent his motives. And yet there are people who would encourage • this sort of thing by paying the Leader of the Opposition a handsome salary out of the public purse!—Dunedin Star, on the Old Age Pensions Bill. Mr Duthie’s contention that there would have been no surplus “ but for the underestimate of revenue received into the Treasury,” is like saying that the Premier would-have been dead if he had died. It is really too childish for discussion. *No one requires to be told that if the money had not been paid into the Treasury it would not bo there.—Christchurch Times. ■

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