GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1618, 4 December 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright u London, Decembor 1. The Queen's uuomployod fund is attracting to London hundreds of provincial tramps.., V Paris, December 1. M. Loubet declares that be intends to retiro in February. An influential mooting of Deputies of the Left adopted AT. Failures as a candidate for the Presidency; 1 Four accused, who made an attempt on the (lives of King Alfonso and j AT. Loubet in Juno last wero acquitted. The jury accepted the theory that the story,of the outrage was concocted by the Spanish police. Bounties to encourage French shipping'totalled 16 millions sterling since ISBI, (but the proportion of French vossels has felloe) in homo and colonial ports 37 per hundred, and in ports of all nationalities to 1S per cent. I New York, December 1. Air Jerome, tho nowly-electod Public Prosecutor of New York, denounced the county judges as creatures of Tammany and of business corporations. Sydney, Deo. 2. The jury in the Dailey divorce case

returned to Court shortly before midnight, aftor being locked up for 12 hours. Of tho 11 issues to decide they failed to agree on a majority, including those whether respondent and corespondent had committed adultery, but found that petitioner had committed adultery with Katherine Cowell in , England and France. Air Justice Walker said the result was regrettable, but couldnot be helped. Counsel for respondent formally moved for a decree nisi and costs of the suit. The

judge noted itlie application and discharged the jury. A third arrest, a womaD, has been made in the will case. The charge is conspiring to cheat and defraud the solicitor Wilson.

Five British farmers have arrived to take up land at Myall Creek. The Estimates include an item of for assisted immigration. The Government’s financial advisers n London report that the outlook for New South Wales finances in England is better, aud there is evidence of an improved tone in the market. Mr Carruthers-claims it is the outcome of the encouragement of immigration. The case of the man Bennett, sentenced to seven years for braaking into St. Mary’s Cathedral and rifling the poor boxes, illustrated the excellence of the finger-prints on tho window, corresponding to prints in the possesion of the police. Bennett when arrested acknowledged his guilt.