GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1572, 30 September 1905, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph* Press Ass’ll,. Copyright Received 11.48 p.m., Sept. 29. St. Petarßburg, Sept. 29. General Stooasel is suffering from paralysis of the side. . , Sydney, Sept. 29. Arrived, at 9.80 p.m., the Victoria. London, Sept 28. Captain Ernest Gaunt, a Victorian, has been appointed to the cruiser Gabrian, commissioned for Australia. St. Petersburg, Sept. 28. M. de Witte, on his return here, was accorded a great ovation. Vienna, Sept. 28. An agitation in favor of universal suffrage is spreading like wildfire in Hungary and Austria. Paris, Sept. 28. M. Rouvier and Count Radolin have signed the Moroccan agreement. Rome, Sept 28. Italy has accepted the Czar’s invitation to the Hague Conference. ■ Melbourne, Sept 29. There is a loDg discussion in the Senate on the c/auaee in the Copyright Bill, giving protection to telegrams. An amendment that the copyright should not be afforded unless other newspapers or bbwb agencies to participate on payment of b rata contribution was rejected by 11 io K>. •_ 4 A possible new mail route to Groat Britain was mentioned at a moating of a select committee to inqnire into steamship communication with Britain. The Chairman stated that ho bad asked the Russian Oonsul to obtain particulars in regard to transmitting mails by the Siberian railway.

Adelaide, Sept 29. The Treasurer has submitted his land and income tax proposals. Incomes of over J6SOQ from personal exertion pay 4£d in the £ up to <6BOO, and 7d over that sum. Income from property pays 9d and 18d. The extra land taxation is id over <£sooo to <£lo,ooo, Id to <615,000, Xising to 8d over £ 100,000.