GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1593, 3 November 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By] tolegraßh, Press Aes’n,. Copyright London, Nov. 1. At the inquest on Baron 1 Holzhausen, who suicided at Mrs Monckton’s residence, a verdict of felo de'so was te turned. ’-i' l '* S i} '+ ■ - The Cambridgeshire Stakes resulted : Velocity i*Spntry,2, Dean-Swift 3. Vienna, Noy. 1. j Two thousand Socialists participated in a universal suffrage demonstration at Vienna. They cheered the Czar and M. Fejervary. ’ ■ ! 1 . Antwerp, Nov. 1. The German steamer Undine, from; Chili, has been isolated near Antwerp.! Qne of her crew is dead and six are ill,] it is supposed from plague; - 1

. ; Berne; Nov. I.] A boy of fifteen Syschez, in,the canton of Grisons, although 'the rope cut into his-flesh, held his"father with the aid of an ice-axe, dangling' two ; hours over' a thousand feet precipice. His prjes brought shepherds, and both were .rescued. » ' New York,' Nov. 1. Kites at Fprt Leavenworth,. Kansas; received Soop' miles] frOnfsea. Sydney, Nov. 2.

The Union Company are removing to a fine suite of new offices at the comer of Geprge and Jamieson, streets. • ~Thg silver and ( lead sestions.,, of. the sharemarket areuctivo and - buoyant owing to advanclhjg* prices of silver,] lead, and spelter, and the improved ’ prospects of treatment of zino tailings. Amongst the heavy dealings aT large purchase]]Has been imade of. Barrier, scrip on English /and Cbntihtotal account. I , The warship Challenger steamed from Sydney to Grecn Cape in under twelve hours, which is a record. . Melbourne, Nov. 2. ' Cabinet and the Laborcaucus discussed the harvester question. In neither case did they come to a decision. Mr Deakin stated that the Government were awaiting further information. It is, rumored; the Government are. rpally awditing the] decision of the Labor party /before deciding on definite action. The Senate approved of the Vancouver mail contract. The Attorney-General has rejected a petition for the release of A.B. Worthing-, ton, who was alleged to be mentally weak. The doctors examined him, and reported, that Worthington’s disorder? were partly a deliberate simulation aud partly hysterical excitement, which he can summon at will.

Sydney, Nov. 2. Mr Reid, interviewed respecting the West Australian elections, declared that the sectional politics of a sectional parly has met their first great disaster. The Queensland political situation was big with.similar possibilities. He predicts the punishment of the Deakin-Labto alliance.

Hobart, Nov. 2. The Council rejected the Local 'Option Bill on second reading by 5 to 4. !