GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1734, 27 April 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By lolegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright London, April 25. Mr Adrian Jones has executed in bronze for the Princo of Wales a statue of the famous racehorse Persimmon, as a present for the King. The late Mr Thomas Purvis Russoll, a Now Zealander, left a personality of £257,607. Sir Clements Markham warmly supports Lioutenant Barnes’ attempt to organise a British Antarctic expedition to explore Grahamland. Athocs, April 25. In the Olympic games, the first heat of the hundrod metres swimming race resulted: Daniels (New York) 1, Healy (Australia) 2, Darbyshire (England) 3. Ihe final was won by Daniels, Hnlway (Hungaiian) Healy 3. Berh'n, April 25. Prince Bulow, tho German Chancellor, is still confined to his bed. It is expected that Prince Hohenlohe will succeod him. Herr Mangels, Commercial Councillor at the Gorman Consulate at Asuncion, Paraguay, has been murn dered. - - - Ottawa, Apr.l 25. In the Dominion House, Mr Henderson, representing Halton electorate, said that if he had an opportunity he would cancel preference with the Motherland, Mr Fißher expressed regret that such a remark had been made, and attributed it to political hostility. He proceeded to-justify his Montreal speech, and added that if Britain imposed a tax on food imported for workers she would impair her purchasing power, and thus strike a blow at Canadian farmers. She would also impair the unity and solidarity of the Empire. Capetown, April 25.

There are forty-six thousand two hundred and three Parliamentary voters on the Band, and forty-two thousand one hundred and twenty in the rest of the Transvaal. Paris, April 26.

All sections of French Socialism are united for the general elections, and an appeal to the electorates on the basis of the principle of a class war. They propose to transform tho capitalist regime into a species of communism by the nationalisation of all production and exchange.

Sydney, April 26,

There is much dissatisfaction in military circles at the administration of the Military Board. Colonel Antill recently resigned as a protest. At a valedictory gathering he condemned in unmeasured terms the Board. The Minister of Defence intends to obtain a report of Colonel Antill’s speech, and an explanation in the presence of a number of officers.

Refugees employed at the McKee mines, near Noumea, built a boat, wherein they voyaged to New Britain. They were employed for a considerable time in German territory before the French authorities ascertained their whereabouts.

There are sixty-five cases of typhoid in Cobar hospital.

Adelaide, April 26

Mr Watson, speaking at the Town Hall, said there was still a possibility of the two parties working together in Parliament, although neither might obtain all they desired. He advocated the Swiss system of defence.