LATE CABLES.
By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright
Reoeived 4.25 p.m., Oct. 29. Berlin, Oot. 28A women’s maritime union, on the model of the men’s navy league, has been established in Germany, for the purpose of raising money for presenting the nation with a huge battleship.
Parts, Oot. 28. Tho construction of ten submerßlbles of a length of 166 feet and a displacement of 500 tons each, has begun at Cherbourg.
I 5 Tokio, Oot. 28. The rice orop iu Japan is muoh below ;be estimates. Throe prefectures are ihreatened with famine.
Received 6.67 p.m,, Oet. 28.
I Sydney, Oot. 28. Sailed, at 4.15 p.m., the Moeraki. Hobart, Oct. 28,
The Assembly passed the Looal Option Bill, the chief provisions of wbiohare that no drink is to be sold on polling day ; half the electors on the roll must record their votes; that the compensation fund be in force for five years before the first poll is taken; the basis of compensation to the owner to be the difference between the assessed and oapital value of licensed and unlicensed, and for the licensee the compensation to be the va.uo of - the good* will of the business daring the previous year.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 30 October 1905, Page 2
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