GENERAL GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1709, 27 March 1906, Page 3

GENERAL GABLES.

By telegraph,. Presa Ase’n, Copyright London, Maroh 25.

Oxford won the athletic sports contest with seven events to Cambridge’s three.

Mr John Dryden Great, Minister for Agriculture, Ontario, joins the Commission to inquire into agricultural conditions in Ireland. The invitation omanatod from the Imporial Government, through Lord Strathcona Tho Times condemns the Land Valuation Taxation of Scotland Bill, and declares that such a campaign against private property will kill the fen system of tenure in Scotland. The object of the Bill is to deprive owners of unearned increment, yet the actual effect will be to tax people who do not enjoy the increment, and leave untaxed those who do.

Tho Times’ Johannesburg correspondent states that Sir West Ridgoway’s committeo is welcomed as a step forward to the goal of finality. Tho personnel of tho committoo is approved.

Bydney, March 26 The storm experienced in New Caledonia last week was the sevorest for several years. Tho telegraph (lines wero down in all directions. It is believed the settlers sustained consider* able losses. The wind reached a -—Velocity of ninety miles.

Melbourne, Maroh 26. The Argus, commenting on Mr Deakin’s speech, says one notable feature in connection with the speech was the lack of interest in it, as shown by the comparatively small attendance. The Age says there was very little in it that the country wanted to know, and very much that everybody was tired of.

:Perib, Maroh 26. Two oases of plague have been re joxtod.