GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1555, 11 September 1905, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By; telegEapfiV Press Ass’n, Copyright

London, September 8.

The British imports for August increased £4,425,000. The exports in•creasod £8,158,000 compared with the pre■vious August. New Zealand short-berried wheat is al •,28s to 28s 6d.

Replying to o suggestion made by the ! 'Victorian Agont-General that Australia is ■able to supply all requiromonts, the Getunan Consul-General in London stated that tbe Gorman meat famine had been much .exaggerated. Sixty five guineas per cent has been paid to re-insnro tbe barque Lalla Rookb -wbioh sailed from Brisbane in Maroh for

[ Tho Bank of Australasia has declared a dlvidond of 12 por oont,, addod £30,000 to reserve, and carried forward *617,000. ~ , Russia is expending four million pounds sterling in oereals for the famino-striokon provinces.

I Madrid, Sept. 8. I Fear Anarohisls bavo boon arrestod for I placing boulders on tho road at Aosta as Queen Margberita was about to pass in | an automobile. , , . Thoro is a total of 106 oasos of cholera in Prussia, with 82 deaths. Tho strikers at .Bossbach almost demolished a foundry owiDg to the importafcioa of Alsatian blacklegs. Troops restored order.

Berlin. Sept. 8.

Nows has boon received that the rebels of Gorman East Afrioa destroyed towns at Misaai and Mikindani.

It I Sydney, Sept. 9, The Minister for Agrioulturo presided at I a oonferonco to discuss improving tho breed lof horses. It was resolved that it is dosirablo that the Indian and Imperial GovernI monts should establish agencies in New I South Wales with a view to purchasing I direct from breeders; favoring the appointI menl of a competent board to inspeot I Btallions ; the Government disoonraging I the export of mares ; and tho holding of I horso fairs in connection with shows. I Advices from Now Britain announce the I death of Herr Englehardt, founder and only snrviving member of the Beot 11 Sun I Worshippers." Ho fell ill, and died during removal from tho island of Kabakon, wbioh he had purchased, to a hospital. I Adelaide, Sept 9. I The Medical Congress carried a resolution in favor of epileptic hospitals. Hobart, Sept. 9. Tho Assembly approved of a reduction I |of tbo number of members of tho Counoil i to 15. Brisbane, Sept 9. J The wheat orops are suffering for wont of rain, It is feared that unless rain falls shortly a considerable area will be a failure.