GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1609, 23 November 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By telegraph, Press Aua’n, Copyright London, Nov. 21. A British worship prooeods tb Obriatiania to attend Kldr Haakon’s and Queen Maud’s ' reception, F King ' Edward, jin thanking Norway for congratulations on Quean Maud’s aoceesipn, stated‘.that he waß 'enohantod ;10 learn that his dear daughter'- Would be ,Qiieeh of their magnificent and interesting country. The gates at the test orioket malohos yielded over *2lllooo. The Australians reoeived 28685.. Over 210,000 is divinihle among the' bounties as the result oi the tour. Those where test matches were playod eaoh receive 2847, the firßt-clase counties 2800, minor 262. 1 Tho New Zealanders blear about 21100 over the Soottish football matob. I

fMr John Morley, in a speech at Wftlthamstow, criticising the Government's attitude on the fiaoaPiiuestion,'suggested that Mr Balfour would be acceptable as the next Archbishop of Laodioea, if the ohurcb still existed. In regard to unemployment, Mr Morley confessed that he had no remedy." Generous'lmpulse of the heart must be guided by firm statesmanship of tbe bead. He depieoated experiments like the disastrous national workshops of Paris in 1848. Dislocation of industry was deteriorating character. Ho eulogised the generous efforts now con- j spiouous from the King and Queen to the oostermonger, and the energies of statesmen, Parliament, and the ohurches to mitigate the lot of the great masses always very near to hunger and nakedness. The, Daily News says the Liberal party must produce a remedy. Captain Thursday is commissioned to H.M.S. Encounter, shortly to relieve the Katoomba and Mildura. Berlin, Nov 21. The German Imperial Fund for military and offioial invalids shows a deficit of 14£ millions storing. This oooaaions anxiety, since the capital of the fund has been expended to meet' claims. * King Edward condoled with the Kaiser on the loss of the torpedoer. Advice has been reoeived that Henarik Wilbooi, a leading Bpirit in the rebellion in German Sddth'West Africa, has died of wounds. His Bon Isaac Buioided. The North German Gazette states that the,lmperial deficit for the current ydar is estimated at four million pounds. Sink-; ing fund arrangements, the exigencies of two years’ military service, and naval expenditure necessitate an additional annual revenue totalling 12£ millions, whereof 1H millions will be by means of fresh taxation. The balance will bederived from increased Customs duty under the new tariff.

Perth, Nov 22,

Hagan, Markutz, and Eepana have been sentenced to death (or the murder of Liebold.

Melbourne, Nov. 22.

Despite his oompact Mr Deakin has given notice of motion of a new standing order to oheok Bpeeohes and limit discussion.

Sydney, Nov. 22.

There has been serious damage from bush fires in tbe Riverina. Hundreds of miles of fencing and thousands of aores of grasshaVß'been'destroyed. s*'"" "> Giving evidenoe -.before the Federal Select Committee, the secretary of tbe United Tobaooo Operatives of New South Wales Baid tboir condition was better before the tobaooo combine than since. His union recommended the establish™ ment , by the Federal Government of a tobaooo faotory. . He farther asserted that the union label was the only means,with whioh the union could successfully fight the gigantio Ame'rioah trust.

Obituary—Mr J. Want, ex-Attorney-General, after an operation for appends oitis. ' .