GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1694, 10 March 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES .

Hy telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright , , London, Mauh 8. M. Benoit, a Frenchman was.sontoncod at tho Old Bailey to eightoon months’ imprisonment for forging spirit liquor trade inailcs and faking bottlos in London, for salo in Holland. . An Anglo-American horso show will bo hold in London in May, 1907.

Paris, Mnr.ob 8. In the .French Chamber M. Thompson, Minister for Marino, statod that the Government proposed to build six battloships of eigiitneen thousand tons each, with a speod of eighteen knots, not turbinos, with quicker firors and hoavior broadsides than tho British ships.

Lo Temps, implying to Gorman nowspapors, donies that King Edward ollorod advico respecting Morocco. Ho merely declared that British diplomacy would unrestrictedly support the Frouch policy. •

. Ottawa, March 8. Canndian tariff legislation has boon delayod owing to tho illness of tho Hon, W. S. Fielding, Minister of I inanco.

. Now Yoik, March 8. Cwing to the employment of nonunionists, tho foundry of Rnvitch Bros., Now York, has beon partially destroyed by dynamito. Tho son of John Boziiili, an Italian banker, of New York, was kidnapped, and four thousand pounds sterling demanded as a ransom. The boy subsequently osenped and returned home. lhe Houso of Representatives in committee inserted in tho Appropriation Bill a clauso reducing tho salary of every Government clork over sixtyfive to two hundred pounds sterling. Beil'n, March 8. The Budget Committee of the Reichstag agreod to vote ten million marks as a first instalment to tho torpedoer divisions and submarines.

■ Sydney, Maroh 9. At the Honlebush markets, owing to the short supply, there was a strong aivance in l the price of sheep, best crossbred wethers touched 21s (jd and ewes 17s 4d.

Iho French Consul General is ofTicially advised that the accounts of the Tahiti hurricane have beon greatly exaggerated. There is no need to despatch the s.s Vatinat with relief. The officers of 11. M.S. Encounter stafo that the rumors regarding the alhg'd faulty. construction of the vem sel are without foundation. Iho proved during her voyage a splendid sea bort. At the outset ,the engines were too powerful for the size of the hull, but modifications were made. Rocent London advices point to the fact that the Morgan combino has acquired an interest in the Aberdeen S ippiog Line.

Melbourne, March 9. The Mount Lyoll returns from. February Ist to the 28th inclusive, are 29,528 tons of ore treated, in addition to 1173 tons of purchased ore, pro* duced 739 tons of blister copper, containing 730 tons of copper, 61,809 ounces of silver, and 18-19 ounces of gold.