GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1608, 22 November 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph,, Press'Ass’n, Copyri'gh .... London, Nov 20. j The Daily Express states that thatj Mr Evans Gordon, a member of the House of Commons; is forming a nonpolitical league to promote a demand for British goods. gSThe Queen’s: fund for the. unem*> ployed amounts to £60,000, including £IO,OOO from Lord Mount Stephen. At Tower Bridge, William DavenSort, a ship owner, and Yyvyan H. toyle, a clergyman, aged 71, who refused to give his address, were charged with: conspiracy, to defraud by means of a bogus "trawling company. ..Mr Rowe, representing the Treasury, stated that Davenport was really Wells, the man who broke the bank.at Monte Carlo. V

The Marconi Company have purchased a site at Derrygevild, Ireland, and open communication with America.

The Daily Telegraph’s correspon- ' dent at Tokio states that Britain and China have concluded a satisfactory agreement in regard to. Tibet. r ' Capetown, Nov. 20. Lord Selborne’s minute on the. education question largely complies with the Boer’s claims. It leaves them free to continue opposition to schools where children are taught elementary subjects in the taal, English becoming the medium' from the third standard. The Boers only admit that the policy is a step in the right direction; They are much disappointed at the limitation of language. Christiana, Nov. 20. Prince Charles assumes , the title of Hako the Seventh. K ' . V’ ‘ Bombay Nov. 20. The Prince and Princess of Wales received an ovation at Adaipur. • L Tokio, Nov. 20. The Japanese newspaper Kohumin Shimbun declares that Count Ito’s arrangement secures peace in the Far East for many years. Constantinople, Nov. 20. Irritated at the fortifications on the Bosphorus, Russia demands overdue instalments of war indemnity, with arrears of interest, otherwise she will occupy a point on the Turkish coast. Brisbane, Nov. 21. The five-masted American schooner Kineo has put in in distress. Eleven out of 14 men aboard are suffering from beri-beri. One seaman died. The vessel left Manila on August 9, and early in the voyage was partially dismasted. by, a. cyclone. She .was afterwards beoalmed, and ran short of yegetables. A bad supply of water was’responsible for much of .'the suffering. ’f ’ ; v ; ; Sydney, Nov. 21. Lord Jersey has - bebn presented . with an address in a silver casket by the State Parliament, expressive of its appreciation of his services to New South Wales.- •, • ; Kelly, on the ground of his health, has retired from first-class cricket. A, meeting of the Cricket Association decided to reply to New Zealand’s invitation to send a team that the fixtures for the first eleven for next season have already been made, and asking whether a second eleven would be acceptable. ' ; "'7 : 5 .