GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1574, 3 October 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I 'By; telegraphy Presa Copyright London, Ootober Ist. The New Zealand Shipping Company's report for the year ended June 30 shows a profit of £54,466. A dividend of 5 por cent, has been declared, and £13,106 oarried forward!.

A movement is afoot in Liverpool to erect spinning mills at a costl.of a million and a-half to recover a portion of the trade of the ship canal, diverted to Manchester,

Suez, Ootober Ist. Official soundings show that the Suez [ Canal has silted for a length of 80 metres and an average width of five metres, St. Petersburg, Ootober 1. Two workmen shot dead in a Lodz tram-car Julius Kunitzer, directer of the great cotton firm of Heintzel and Kunitzer. One was arrested, and the other escaped by firing a revolver at his pursuers. "

Bombay, Ootober I. Lord Curzon was banquetted at Simla. He stated that frontier wars from 1894 to 1899 had cost 4J millions, compared with a quarter of a million spent in the last seven years. Lord Curzon leaves Indict on November 18.

Brisbane, Ootober 2, A boat containing three youths and three girls is missing from Southport, and It is feared the occupants have been drowned.

Sydney, Oclobor 1. Sir W. Lyne, speaking at Albury, opposed General Booth’s scheme. He added : A Minister must, however, pull with his colleagues in the matter or leave. I am not prepared to leave just yet. The Bishop of Tasmania, in an address on Socialism, declared that Socialism was not necessarily antagonistic to Christianity. He favored equality of opportunity for all. The Primate, who presided, said he agreed with what was broadband general in the address, but not the arguments about Socialism.

William Mailer, ex-accountant of the Union Steamship Company, was found shot dead at his home, under circumstances pointing to suicide.