GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1690, 6 March 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

Hy telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright ••P , p,. Maroh 4. iur Uladatono declined to recoivo a . r P“'Btaut Alliance deputation iogarJ~ ing tho 1 rinooss Ena’s mnrriugo. Mr Priokitt has boon gazetted as moriean Consul Gonoral at Auckland, and Mr Ihomas llawdon Ward a niomber ol tho Exocutivo Council of Fiji. liavo rocoivod including a quartor of a million from Amorica, for transmission to distressed Jews in Russia. ~ . Now Yo k, Mnroh 4. tJuring tho last yoar ono hundred and fifty thousand Jewish immigrants landed in America, sixty thousand sottling in Now York. Melbourne, March 5 Iho Marconi Company has started work on an experimental wiroloss station. . 'Lho Stato Government was given 1 fifty tons of flour for tho Japanoso famino relief, Mr Donkin offered his assistance to the Chamber of Commerce in its efforts to relieve distross in Japan. Mr D. Koss, an amateur astronomer, reports a now discovery, supposed to bo a new comet, in tho constellation Sculptor. Capetown, Maroh 4. Representatives of tho Hotvolk and the Responsible Government and Progressive parties met at General Botha’s house at Pretoria to discuss a compromise with a view to the immediate granting of a constitution for the Transvaal. It was suggested that the Ministry should bo [composed equally of British and Dutch, the Premier to be elected by all sections. The ne« gotiations proved abortive, the British refusing the Hetvolk’s suggestions. Sydney, Maroh 5. The Thordis went ashore in a gale, bumping heavily. Tho crew were taken off with difficulty, owing to the heavy sea.