GENERAL GABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1637, 30 December 1905, Page 1

GENERAL GABLES

By telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright London, Deo 28.

Lord Selboruo advisoa an amendment to tlio Transvaal constitution, increasing tho number of constituencies to fifty or sixty. Mr John Burns, at an onthusiastic meeting at Battersea, deolarod that by helping the poor they must be careful not to endow poverty. His ideas were fewer workhouses, more homes, smaller charities, larger wages, more pleasure, loss drink, smaller citio3 and larger villages. An alarming outbreak at Fincham, Norfolk, suspected to bo spotted fever, is how diagnosed ns typhoid.

- V New Yoik, Deo. 28. Mr McClellan has received the election certificate as Mayor of New York and took the oath of offioe. Ottawa, Deo. 28.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier has grateful iy accepted Lord Tweedmouth’s offer of tho battleship Dominion to convoy tho remains of Mr Profontaine, lato Minister, for Marine, to Cherbourg from Halifax. M. Rouvier condoled with Sir Wil-rid Laurier on his colleague’s deat T ,

Sydney, Deo. 29. ' The heat inland has eased. The Trades Councils propose to hold a conference to consider the adoption of a uniform union label throughout, Australia before the Trades Marks Act comes into operation in March. A fuud has been started for the erection of a monument to Kieran, the swimmer.