GENERAL GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1617, 2 December 1905, Page 3

GENERAL GABLES.

By telegraph, Press A«s’n, Copyright London, Nov 30.

In connection with the forgery case reported in the London Times of October 2nd, Bridgewater was sentenced to seven years, and Shakell to five years’ penal servitude; Holmes to 15 months. Foster was found not guilty. The Bishop of London delivered an address at an intercessary service for the unemployed and victims of the Russian massacres to-day at St Paul’s Cathedral. The Rev Principal Hutton, of Paisley, is Moderator elect of the United Free Church of Scotland.

Hugh Watt has been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to murder his wife. Bail has been fixed at £2OOO. The Standard states that the immense new underground naval magazines at Gibraltar are so damp that they are use' less for the purpose intended. New York, Nov. 30.

Mr McCurdy has resigned the presidency of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company. The eastern colleges of New York are forming an Association Football League. Berlin, Nov. 30.

Reports presented to the Reichstag show that the Hereros in the northern provinces of German South-west Africa have been practically exterminated. There are thousands of prisoners in the concentration camps.

Madrid, Nov 30,

The constitutional guarantees of Catalonia have been been suspended owing to Ihe autonomy movement.

Capetown, Nov. 30. Sir Arthur Lawley, at a farewell banquet at Johannesburg, said: “If the clock is put back I should unhesitatingly advocate the importation of Chinese. The political outcry against it is only an ephemeral frenzy which will pass. Unless the Kaffirs are moulded aright they become a potential menace to the whole of South Africa. It is the greatest question colonials must face.

Brisbane, December 1. The body of a cane - cutter named James Kyan was found near Mackay with the throat cut and head gashed. There is evidence that a brutal murder has been committed. Sydney, Dec. 1. The Government have granted permission to stockowners to conduct at their own expense experiments with Dr Danzig’s methods of exterminating rabbits. An island is to be set aside for the pur pose. There is £48,000 still owing to the Government for seed wheat advanced to farmers during the last drought. Bush fires in Condobolin district swept an area of over 100 miles. It is estimated that 400,000 acres of grass, much fencing and crops were destroyed.

Melbourne, Deo. 1. The Court found Captain Myhus, master of the La Bella, guilty of gross misconduct in attempting toenter jwithout a pilot. It suspended his certificate for twelve months and ordered him to pay £2B, costs of the inquiry. Mr Isaacs, in introducing the union label clauses, claimedthat he had not altered them in principal or substance. All they intended was to place the efforts of workers on the same category as tangible property of the employers. He did not consider an appeal from the union to the public to support their label was a boycott. It was no more boycott than for a Parliamentary candidate to ask the electors if they give him preference over other candidates. By means of the union label Australian goods and workmanship would be indicated to the advantage of the whole of the people. An animated debate commenced, and was still proceeding at an early hour this morning. Provision is made for a penalty of £SO and forfeiture for false application oi the workers’ trademark. Hobart, Deo. 1. Arrived, ss. Maheno. She made the run from the Bluff in 70 hours 30 minutes, against strong winds, changing on Tuesday evening to a south-west gale.