GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1667, 6 February 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph* Press 'Ash’d,, Copyright London, Feb. 4

Sir Edward Grey has gonerously returned tho Metropolitan Water Board £3OOO, being a portion of his foos as arbitrator under tho Act of 1902.

Lady Strathcona has givon ten thousand guineas to the unemployed fund, with the stipulation that nine thousand pounds shall be devoted to emigration of deserving workers to Canada. Mr Norton, a membor of the House of Commons, has succeeded Mr Thomas as junior Lord of the Treasury.

Mr Coghlan, in a letter to the Times, denies tho suggestion that prejudice arising out of the Chinese question had influenced immigration to Australia. Ho had merely cited the prejudice as one of the factors affecting the price of Australian securities in London, He reiterates his complaint against the attitude of the Times' Australian financial correspondent. At Rugby football Wales beat Scotland by 9 points to 3.

Copenhagen, Feb. 4. Queen Alexandra has arrived al Copenhagen.

Carsons, Feb. 4. Diplomatists at Caracas have pro tested against the treatment of M Faigey, the French representative.

Berlin, Feb. 4. A great shipbuilding yard will shortly be established at Lubeck. The German Navy League has made a frenzied appeal to the people to support voting a big navy increase, pointing out that the bigger the fleet the greater the workman’s certainty of his daily bread.

Tokio, Feb. 4. The Constitutional party in the Japanese Diet support a Bill to convert the war taxes into a permanent impost. A majority is assured for the Bill.

Sydney, Feb. 5. The Political Labor Conference has decided that the eight hours’ system should be extended to nurses and warders of Government and private hospitals, gaols, and asylums. The conference carried a resolution of sympathy with the Russian reformers.