GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1740, 4 May 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Iflttgraßh, Asa’n, Copyright London, May 2. Sir Charles Dilko has accepted the chairmanship bf the committee to deal with the graduatfiliiioome tax. Abyssinia 'is'co-operating with the Soudah Govorimv :;t i n the pursuit of Mariam; tho Abys- .ian outlaw.

Tho Thousand Guineas Stakes reI sultods: Gorges ' it by Diamond Jubiloe) 1, Dame Agnota 2, Ram I rod S. y Paris, May 2 Of ono hundred ail fifty persons in custody in Paris, seventy are foreigners, mostly Eusaians.ifGieut. Fisserand will be imprisoned it | sixty days in a fortress, and then be Retired from the service. , % cvdnoy, May 8. Tho Controller of prisons states that the figures in ort in regard to jNe.Wr Zealand --'Ufar correct, Tney wero'obtained from an official source.

The Government geologist has received a small diamond in the matrix found near Inverell. It is embedded

in a piece of igneous rock known as I dolerite. The discovory throws some additional light on tho question of the origin of diamonds. It is fair to assume the diamond was formed while the dolerite was in a cooling or solidifying state. Until the present discovery dolerite was quite unknown in the world as a matrix for tho diamond.

A state of muddle exists in connec

tion with tho Board of Control of | cricket. The Melbourne Club has withdrawn its representation nominally on the ground of rejection of tho suggestion made by the South Australian Cricket A ssociation that the Board should only finance Australian teams to England if necessary. This suggestion, if carried, would leave the way open for speculative tours in England, a thing the creating of the Board was intended to prevent. It is believed that the Marylebone Club is unlikely to make any cricket arrangements without consulting tho body which represents New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland.