GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1566, 23 September 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

•By] telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright London, Bopt 21. The ship Chrisper Kyle, bonnd|from Newcastle to Valparaiso, has boon posted as missing. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Aberdeen, said there were millions of acres of vacant land in Britain, l't would be needless to ship tho unemployed abroad like vermin, if they were trained and equipped for work at Homo.

Sir Horace Tozer, in informing an interviewer that some of the best lands in Queensland were being set aside as suitable for immigrants, added that he thought the brain of Australia had been roused to the fact that there must be either immigration or stagnation. Stockholm, Sopt. 21. The Biksdag and Storthing meet on October 10 to discuss the result of tho Karlsbad Conference.

Constantinople, Sept. 21. Investigations in connection with the recent attempt on the Sultan discovered 15 ompty bombs and numerous bottles filled with yellowish fluid in the well of a house at | Pera, a suburb of Constantinople, occupied by a British subject.

Borlin. Sept. 21. The Socialists increased 6000 votes in the Essen election, owing to the meat famine.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 21. Since artillery were used at Baku the authorities have been gaining the ascendancy.

Melbourne, Sept. 22. The Queensland and West Australian Governments have informed Mr Deakin that they will be prepared to,welcome approved immigrants, but want more details before deciding on General Booth’s scheme.

Sydney, Sept 22. The Daily Telegraph, in an article warmly traversing Mr Jellicoe's statements to tho Liverpool Post, says he has shown himself ignorant of Australia. It concludes: “ On the strength of having spent some years at one time in New Zealand this gentleman may be credited in England with knowing something of the Commonwealth, which fact is calculated to aggravate the miechief. We have enough real faults to answer for and correct without Mr Jellicoo inventing others for us.”