GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 20 October 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

1 By telegr.ip/h. Press Ass’n, Copyright ! London, Oot. 18. I Tho Oosarewitch Stakes resulted i I Hammerkop L, Merry Andrew 2, I YVargravo 3. I Earl Cowloy marries at Colombo I Lady Hartopp, the dlvorcod wife of I Sir Charles Hartopp. I Wm. Boyd and Androw Carney, I belonging to a party of Australian I confidenco tricksters, were sentenced Ito 21 months’ imprisonment on a I charge of attempting to dissuade I Henry Smith, an Australian, from I prosecuting other tricksters, i Fourteen degrees of frost was experienced in Scotland and (nino in London. Tho Police Commissioners’ annual ! report shows a great decrease of serious criminality in Britain. Earl Spencer is out of danger. The King and Queen opened Kingsway, the new London street, in the presence of a great gathering, including the visiting Paris Municipal Counoil representatives. The cruiser Cambria has sailed for Australia. The repairs to H.M.S. Pyramus at Porim will occupy a week. •

The Pall Mall Gazette says it is extremely unlikely 'the present Government will summon a Colonial Conference. ,

Now York, Oot 18. Mr McCurdy, president of the New York Mutual Life Society, irritated at the severity of his examination by the Insurance Commission, complained of the inquisitorial character of the inquiry and refused to testify. Washington, Oct. 18. President Roosevelt has given the members of the Cabinet power to remove summarily, without bearing the case, any civil servant who to the personal knowledge of the head of the department is guilty of misconduct or is inefficient.

Berlin, Oct IS. Kretzchmar, an ex-German naval [ officer, travelling from Berlin to Paris by train, was robbed of a cheque for ,£53,000 Germin advices from Lindi state that a number of native prisoners were court-martiallod. Twenty-one were shot instead of hanged, as the natives reported that German ( rifles were unable to kill.

Calcutta, Oct 18. Nine hundred indentured coolies at the West Indies have remitted £15,000 to Calcutta in ten years.

. Massowah Oot 18. A Somali Mullah looted 6000 camels and many sheep from Italians on the Niger, with whom the Mullah was for a time fighting. They also looted in the vicinity of Obbia. An Italian warship makes a demonstration. Sydney, Oot. 19, The gale has moderated. Irvine s score in the King’s Match was 93.

The Labor Commissioner reports that the labor market is improving. The unemployed are decreasing.

Perth, Oot, 19. Mr Eason, in an election speech, declared that in the event of Western Australia not receiving justice in connection . with the Transcontinental railway it would possibly be his duty to ask the people to cut adrift from Federation and row their own boat.