GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1735, 28 April 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

j By lolograpji. Press Ass’n, Copyright London, April 26. I Lord Month’s Empire Day ohallergp I cup and prize, open to primary eobrols in tho Empire, has been awarded to Andriw _ I Phi lips, Millobeßto r , Queensland. I Lieutenant Carlton Bollairs, interviewee’) oonsidors that Captain Crcsswoli greatly I underestimates the Co3t of bis Australian I definoe sohcino. BeDairs drolures tbo I present Australian equadron is quito in I effioient, as tbo vessels are unarmored. I Sir John Colomb, interviewed, doolared I tbat Orfsswell overrates Ibo dingers of attnok from armod merchant o u sers, > I The Shaw, Savill, and Albion’s annua I i oport shows a profit of d 621,868. A divi I dond of 5 per cent has beon dcolartd, and I £1931 carried forward. Tho House of Commons women’s suffrage inoidont is unparalleled einoo February. 1777. I Mr John Burns has foreshadowed reform to render tho administration of tbo I vaccination laws, particularly as rogards exemption, uniform. I Mr T. Green, presiding at a meeting of I tbo Orient-Paoifio line, anticipated that with Austra'ia makiag money, thoro would bo a very considerable inoreaso of paßron gers and more wool to carry. Hs had been informed on good authority that never bad tho outlook for Australia been |. so good. Wheat: The American visible supply is 59,621,000 bushe's. Two Australian cargoes sold at 31s and 31s 3d respectively. Paris, April 26 Fearing May Day disturbances, tho Paris garrison has been increased to < 57,000, and the polios strengthened by 30,000. M Clemenoeau informed a Labor deputation that he meant to maintain order.

Romr, April 26. Professor Motteucoi repoits that Vesuvius is very quiet, and the orater very broad and deep. x

New York, April 26. Tbo Amorican Senate has ratified the Alaskan boundary treaty.

Tho remains of Admiral Paul Jones, [ after being ceoortod aoross the Atlantic by Frenoh warships, were re-inteired at An napolis, in the presenoo of President Roosevelt, members of tho Government, aod the Frenoh Ambassador. Melbourne, April 27. Gold from the 4224 ft level iu the New Chum railway mine, the deepest in the world, yielded an ounos to tho ton., Sydney, April 27. The Rand Labor Counoil have infoimed the Sydney Council that there was no work for skilled or unskilled labor at Johannesburg owing to tbe flooding of the Junotion North Mines, but they are making good progress.

The Observatory prediots that very severe gaits and heavy sees are inevitable during the rest of the week in tbe Straits of Tasmania, afterwards affcoting tho whole Tasman Sea. Viotoria and Tasmania rrport heavy gales and seas. Fremantle, April 27. Arrived, Oroya. Passeng rs for New Zealand : Messrs Stubbs, Anderson, Grace, IrviDg, Gunnington and wife ; Misses CunniDgtoD, Wilson, Hod, Kathleen Plunkot and maid.