GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1619, 5 December 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Press' Ass'ii, Copyright London, Doo. 4. Canada is disappointed at tho Colonial Conforonco having been postponed. The Morning Post, in an article which is believed to reflect Mr Chamberlain’s opinion, states that the colonies should insist on a conferenco meeting at an appointed time. They now have an opportunity of making lear their independence of British parties and their conviction of V-he paramount importance of Imperial interests.

The Daily Telegraph states that Herr Mumm, German Ambassabor at Pekin, and Sir Robert Hart have signed an agreement to establish a Chinese Custom House ot Tsingtan. Two-tenths of tho revenue goes to Germany.

Mr Justice Willis has retired from the King’s Bench. Mr Henry Sutton succeeds,

Count Metternich, German Ambassador in London, speaking as a guest of the Lyceum Club, formed to promote Anglo-German friendship, said an overwhelming majority on both sides desired mutual peace and harmony. His Government, whose viows he knew, greeted with sincere gratification any symptom tending to further good relations. Tokio, Deo. 4. Japan’s Budget for 1906 shows that eleven million pounds sterling is to bo devoted annually to redemption of tho war debt. Normal expenditure not connected with the Avar is twenty-three millions; expenditure arising out of the war eighty millions, including fori y million for repatriation. Fifteen millions are required for pensions. Georgetown, Dec. 4. There is a lull in the riots. The black forts are behaving splendidly. The warships Sappho and Diamond’ landed a force and checked the revolt. There have been no wliito casualties. Constantinople, Dee. 4. Jsris, a Belgian, arrested in connection with an Armenian plot, admits that he supplied the conspirators with melinite to kill tho Sultan. Bulgaria accuses Turkey of conniving at the Greek massacres of Bulgarians in Macedonia.

Sydney, Dec. 5. The first of tho motor omnibuses to be used as a feeder to system have started.

News from Noumea says that extensive bush fires are raging in the interior of New Caledonia. One of the most valuable forests in the colony has been completely destroyed. Obituary; Dr Stanton, Bishop of Newcastle, aged 70.

Melbourne, Dec. 5. The potato crop in Kooweerup and Oarrarn districts has been destroyed by frost. Twenty thousand tons were lost.

The severe weather is proving disastrous to machine-shorn sheep. Thirty thousand perished in Hamilton district, 10,000 at Beaufort, and many thonsands elsewhere. Brisbane, Deo. 5. While a woman named Aberdeen, with her child Lloyd, was sitting under a tree watching the woman's daughter bathing, lightning struck and shattered the tree and killed tho woman and child.