GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1559, 15 September 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright London, Sopt. 12. The St. Logor resulted : Ohullacoinbe 1, Polymolus 2, Cherry Lass 3. The soratohings included Vai d’Or and Oicoro. General Madrikoff attacked Sushan and Shinking district on the 11th, but was immediately repulsed. ] St. Petersburg, Sopt. 18. [ Shipments of arms to Finland are | believed to have been, proceeding for j sevoral months. | Borne, Sopt 18. ( Fresh earthquakes have occurred at j ] Bisignano, doing great damage. I Hongkong, Sopt. 18, Leading Chinese at Hongkong suggested as a remedy for tho boycott of American goods tho exempting of business assistants .from tho Chinese ! Exclusion Aot, also that passports vised by American Consuls should confer on Ohineso in America the ordinary status of subjects of foreign Governments. Mr Taft promised to refer the matter to President Roosevelt, Melbourne, Sopt. 14. Tho not revenue 6f tho railways after paying working expenses amounted to £1,711,000.

T „ Sydney, Sopt. 14. I Mr Jelhcoe, formerly of Wellington, I now the Liberal candidate, for WalI ton, Liverpool, in a press interview, stated he was examining tho present j attitude of the colonies towards Mr Chamberlain’s preferential trade propaI ganda, and also interesting himself ] on behalf of tho unemployed of Engj land and on labor questions here and elsewhere. He was surprised to find that any Australians .should take Mr Chamberlain, seriously after the experience of his colonial administration in the direction of sacrificing Australia’s trade in tho Samoan Group to Germany and sacrificing the interests of the British race in South Africa by handing over the Transvaal mines to the alien owners of alien slaves., Mr Chamberlain’s policy meant a sheer loss of the fiscal independence which the colonies at present enjoy. j