GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1754, 21 May 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By taltgraph, Fr®sa Asa'n, Copyrlgh Lonr on, May Iff.

Tlio Daily Telegraph says it is understood that when Ronr-Admiral Duriiford, commanding tho Capo of Good Hopo station, returns Homo, it is not intended to appoint a successor. Tho Capo squadron will l o reduced. The ships stationod thoro will bo placod undor tho admiral of tho East Indies command,

Tho Prince of Wales, at tho banquet in his honor at tho Guildhall, reviewing his tour, said ho realised tho patienco, simplicity of life, loyal devotion, and religious spirit characterising tho Indian people. He knew also their faith in the absoluto justice and integrity of the rule over them, no felt the task of governing would bo mado easier if we infused into it a wider element of sympathy. He predicted an abundant and genuine response. The Scottish Australian Investment Company realised a profit of £31,700, which has been nppliod to a reduction of tho balance of drought losses. The following have been appointed a Delimitation Committeo to settle the question of the Tabah boundary : Gapt. R. C. Owen, Director of Intelli. gence for the Soudan Government, Ibrahun Fethy Pasha, Turkish Minister in Belgrade, Pasum Boy, and Shukai, an Egyptian.

Faria, May 18,

M. Thomson, French Minister of Marine, in an address to the electors of Algeria, declared that it would be most imprudent of Franco to reduce her armaments. She must maintain her position as the second naval power.

Sydney, May 19

The High Court, dealing with an appeal from the decision of the Lower Court that a Bank -was barred by statute of limitations from right of action against the guarantors of a loan to a finance corporation, decided that having regard to the main object of the guarantee it could only be held as imparting an obligation that whenever a debtor failod to pay any part of the debt on demand the guarantors have to pay that portion, but that the statute of limitation did not begin to run > gainst the guarantors for the whole debt at that time. Mr Deakin has announced that the Navigation and Anti-Trust Bills, also a moasure to Federal™ old age pensions will be introduced next session. The last-namod Bill and tho demand of the States for retention of tho Braddon clause would make the necessity for a Foderal land tax inescapable.

South African files report the murder last month of Herbert Hynes, of Sydney, near Durban. It is supposed that while in a maudlin condition ho was stunned by a stone and beaten to death. A rickshaw puller has been arrested on suspicion. Some of deceased’s belongings were in his possession. Hynes was a horse trainer, employed by W. N. Willis.

The noble forests of oar land Beneath man's devastating hand Soon will have vanished, leaving there This oountry lying, gaunt and bare. No wooded olothing, now old, To save her from her daath of oold, But lo! now Woods arise with healing sure, All bail then —Woods' Great Pepperminl Cure.