GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1634, 23 December 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

13/ telegraph, Press Ass’ii, Copyright London, D?o 21. Jolm Fooney, proprietor of tlio Birmingham Post, lias bequouthed £50,000 to tho Art Gallory, £20,000 to tho University, and £IO,OOO to charities.

Tho Morning Post says King Ed

ward's message of appreciation and sympathy, conveyod by Admiral Fawkes, reflects tho feeling of tho groat mass of people, and will ovoke outlnisiasm boro and in Australia.

Professorßerry, lecturer on anatomy at tho Koyal Collego, Edinburgh, has been appointed to tho charge of anatomy at tho University of Melbourne.

A company has boon formed for tho exploitation of New South Walos share deposits. It is called the Commonwealth Oil Corporation. Tho subscribed capital is half a million. An influential directorate is being formed. Paris, Deo. 21. Owing to Germany’s extraordinary naval expenditure, France begins in the next two years six heavily armod 18,000 ton battleships. Sydney, Dec 22. Obituary : Mr Whiteloy King, an ex-Now Zealand journalist. Mr Smith, organising secretary for the American Federation of Labor in

Los Angelos district, who suffered from loss of memory, has fully established his identity, and sails by the Sierra. The Railway Commission of Enquiry has presented an interim report, clearing the Railway Commissioners and their officers from any suspicion of corrupt conduct.

Melbourne, Deo. 22,

The Federal Parliament has been prorogued. Tho Governor’s speech expressed satisfaction at tho work done.

Mr Deakin, in the course of an in-

terview, expressed the opinion that the next general elections, as far as the Ministry was concerned, would be fought in defence of Australian interests, and the interests of the producers, workers, and consumers, to protect them against competition of under-paid and over-3tockod workmen would be the aim of the Government. Speaking generally the programme will be protection in all its aspects, fiscal and industrial, against monopolies, preferential trade with our own countrymen, population for the land, and land for the people.

Brisbane, Dec 22,

Mr Jones, Queensland’s Commercial Agent, has returned from the East, lie said that if a preferential tariff was arranged between America and the Philippines it would have a detrimental effect on Australian trade in foodstuffs. Australia should be prepared to grant taiiff concessions to the United States in order to retain an open market in the Philippines. Mr Denham, Minister for Agriculture, interviewed, said the irritation against Federation was expanding.

The action of the Federal Parliament in regard to the sugar industry made the feeling in Queensland as acute as in New South Wales. He believed a large majority on the eastern coast of Australia was in favor of dissolution of the bonds. He was not without hope that the whole business would break down of its own weight. A Customs union would do for Australia