GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1628, 16 December 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By telegraph,, Press Ass’ii, Copyright Londrn, Deo. 14. The output of tho Clyde shipbuilding yards this year establishes a record. Berlin, Dec. 14. The Reichstag has boon asked to vote another million and a-half pounds for the Hottontot war. Tho Government are despatching 760 reinforcements to South-West Africa, Tokio, Deo. 14.

Eight thousand two hundred Chinese students of Japanese colleges have resolved to return homo owing to disregard of their protests. Two thousand have already started.

Paris, Dee. 14, Tho findings of tho French Congo Commission aquit Colonel Gontil.

Constantinople, Doe. 14. Ottoman troops at Yomon are being returned to their homos. So crowded wore tho transports that one-third of tho men died before reaching the Suez Canal from wounds, disoase, inadequate attention, and insufficient food.

Ottawa, Dee. 14. Hardly a single Canadian paper commends Mr Winston Churchill’s appointment as Secretary to the Colonial Office in the new British Cabinet. Melboucno, Drc. 15. The Federal ■ Capital Site Bill was introduced and read a first time. The intention is to determine definitely a site in the neighborhood of Dalgety, and to provide for the acquisition of 900 square miles, with means of access to the sea, the amount of compensation to bo paid for the land not to exceed its value on January 1 last year. The House adjourned.

Sydney, Dec. 15. The Railway Commission has taken lengthy evidence for and against tho contention that coal from outside pits which was offered at a considsrably lower price was as good as’ that supplied by the Lithgow Coal Association A number of witnesses including some railway engine firemen, favored outside coal.

At tho Kauri Timber Company meeting the chairman stated that an abnormal season in Now Zealand had interfered with operations, and caused a diminution of profits ; otheiHvis o the sales were practically the same in quantity, only fi o per cent, less in value as compared with last year. The business of the timber trade throughout Australia had been very depressed. Since the Company’s year closed a decided improvement had occurred. The improved outlook, coupled with the fact that there was still £15,000 undivided profit, left a warranted recommendation for payment of the same dividend as last year.

Mr Carruthers states that he has not yet begun the fight on the Federal capital. Ho is waiting tho result of his protest. He hoped the Federal Parliament and Government would decide that the undoubted rights of New South Wales would be fairly and fully recognised.

A Federal Constitution Defence Association has been formed in Sydney. Some speakers described Mr Carruthers as the enemy of Federation.