GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1665, 3 February 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright London, Feb. 1. Satisfaction is expressed at Australia’s Customs concession, removing discrimination against tho Vancouver route. In tho Coop and Young ease, the Magistrate docidod to reserve the question of costs fixing theso at £2O, as the Lancashire County Council had incurred serious expense in tracing tho butter’s origin and instituting proceedings in London. .

Tho Daily Mail’s Malta correspondent states that discontent of a section aboard the cruisor Carnarvon culminated in several men throwing overboard the aiming sights belonging to the six-inch guns.: _ Several arrests have taken placo. The Standard reports that it is understood Messrs MacDonald, Crooks, Arthur Henderson, Shackleton, and Hardio, Labor representatives, sail for the colonies in August, and will be absent for six months.

.Sir Thomas Lipton is willing to build a fourth Shamrock if the measurement rules for the America Cup are modified.

The local Governmout Board declines to sanction the Lambeth Board of Guardians’ scheme for a farm colony at Basingstoke, considering ; it too experimental

Roms, Feb. 1. Italy will refuse to allow military officers to enter the Congolise service Vienna, Feb. 1. Austria has allocated one hundred and twenty million francs for increasing tho Adriatic fleet. The Italian press exhibit alarm, and urge the necessity of counter measures.

Paris, Feb. 1. Government officials who were taking inventories of eoclisiastical furniture and ornaments in Paris churches, wore subjected to violent interference. Crowds hustled the officials out, Belgrado, Fob. 1. A serions anti-Austrian riot occurred at Belgrade. The offices of the only newspaper advocating friendly relations with Austria were wrecked. New Yoik, Feb. 1. Mr Chauncey Depew has resigned his directorship of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.

Sydney, Fob. 2. The drought has broken in the North-eastern districts. Soaking rain storms yesterday disorganised the telegraph service. Molong residents, unable to secure land locally, have gone to New Zealand to look for ground.

Brisbane, Feb. 2. _ Heavy rain has fallen in the inlane districts, the rivers flooding.

Hobait, Feb. 2. Easterly gales wrought great damage to tho fruit and hop crops.

Perth, Feb. 2. Mr G. H. Reid has returned from a holiday in Ceylon.