GENERAL CABLES.
By telegraph, Press Aas’n, Copyright LondoD, April 6. T):b Bank rate of discount has boon oworod to three and a half per cent.
Paris, April 5. A galo delayed the departure of tho Royal yacht Victoria and Albort, with tho King and Quoon aboard, from Marseilles to Sicily. A judicial inquiry has been instituted into tho proceedings of tho en~ ginoers conducting the salvage work at Courrieres.
Tho coalmining companies at Nord and Pas do Calais have agreed to the Government’s terms, and a strike has been averted. Both surface and underground workers receive an advance in wages.
Now York, April 5 The Assembly passed five drastic Bills regulating the conduct of life insurance companies.
Cairo, April 5. The Sultan of Solroto tried and executed a rebel leader named Maafo. The latter boasted that be had killed two French officers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1718, 7 April 1906, Page 1
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