GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1575, 4 October 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

' By telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright London, October 2. London swimmers farwelled Kieran at Frascati’s restaurant. Two hundred wore present. Lamer, of Boston, walked 8 miles 438 yards in an hour at Stamford Bridge.

The British revenue for the September quarter . was £30,682,000. Customs contributing. 8,952,000, excise and stamps £1,900,000.

Early on Sunday morning tho police I removed thousands of posters in DubI lin and suburbs, urging Irishmen not I to enlist in the army and navy. The Public Prosecutor charged I Thomas Garadoc Kerry with stealing I books, the property of the Mission to Seamen, aboard the yacht Pandora. Tho charge was stoutly denied. Other charges are alleged. ■- [Kerry is the man who was connected with the stranding of the yacht Ariadne near Oamaru.J j H.M.S. Natal, the most powerful cruiser in the world, has been launched at Vickers, Son, and Maxim’s yards, Barrow. Vickers have hinted that cruisers in future will be merged into battleships.

I Berlin, Oot 2. Thirty-five thousand workers have I been locked out at Berlin. The strike I is expected to collapse within a fortnight, owing to the absence of funds! I Havana, Oot 2. An attempt to assassinate Palmas, I President of Cuba, by derailing a car I on which he was travelling, failed. Washington, Oot 2. _ A foreign Government having deciphered American official despatches, President Roosevelt has authorised a J new system. A broker’s clerk confessed to forgery and theft of £70,000 worth of securities belonging to,' the National City Bank, New York. The securities wore recovered. The clerk’s name was not divulged. President Roosevelt, on his return here, received a remarkable ovation. St. Petersburg, Oot 2. A number of rifles and a quantity of ammunition were discovered at the naptha refining works, Batoum. A fresh discovery of arms has been made at an island off the Finnish coast.

Sydney, Oot. 2.

The weather was fine for the eight hour demonstration. The celebrations were an • immense success. Crowds witnessed the procession. Fifty-three unions participated, compared with 57 last year. Imposing banners and emblematic designs were shown. Forty thousand people attended the sports at the Agricultural grounds.

Sydney, October 3,

Obituary: Mr W. H. Suttor, at one-time vice-president of the Legist lative Council.

The ten miles cycling championship race resulted in a win for Pye, with R. Amst second, Flunkett third. Pye won by a yard in 23miq J2B 3.5 sec. . . The Eight Hours’ Wheel Race resulted: Holder lj' F. Holder 2, Harris Fowler 3.

Melbourne, Oct. 2. The Federal Customs excise revenue for the September quarter was £2,305,000, a decrease of £65,000 on last year’s corresponding quarter, chiefly the result of non-importation of sugar. Australia is now practically supplying her own wants in sugar. The authorities have no official knowledge of the arrangement announced by Sir Joseph Ward that he has practically fixed for the establishment of wireless telegraphy between New Zealand and Australia. The only letter received by the Government on the. matter is one from Shoemaker arid Co:, offeriiig'to establish a connection on certain terms. Melbourne, Oet. 3. The revenue of the'Victorian Amateur Turf Club for the past season was £32,000, whereof over £23,000 was paid in stakes. Brisbane, October 8. The missing boat was found bottom up off Bouthport. There is no trace of the missing six persons who were its occupants. ... ... Adelaide, Oct 8. A rope was found to be wound round the Loch Vennacher’s boat. The boat apparently capsized when attempting to carry a line ashore, when the ship was in distress.