GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1763, 1 June 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telograph, Presa Aas’n, Copyright London, May 80. Britain and Franco have agreed to flond a Commission to delimit the possessions betwoon the Nigor and Lake Chad, to give France access to the latter regions without passing through British territory. A hatmnor has boon found wherewith Mr Walkloy. tho promising young artist, was killod. His wounds included spur-marks. Playing for Subsox in a match with Derbysliiro, Dwyer took nino wickets for 35. Fry damaged his ankle, and will bo unablo to play for months. Belgrade, May 80.

King Potor has retirod tho principal rogicidos from their olficial positions.

•• New York, May 80. Armour’s grain elevator at Chicago has been burnt, with a million bushels of grain.

Sydney, May 81. Writs have been issued by tho owners of the Buninyang and Criffell in connection with the recent collision. The owners of tho steamer claim £7OOO and tho owners of the barque £7600.

A serious creep has occurred in tho Central Mine, Broken Hill, also affecting Block ten. The miners from both mines have been withdrawn. At the Central Mine the floor of the sink sank three foot, throwing tho plant out of gear.

Melbourne, May 81. Tho ostate of Mr Lansoll, the Bendigo mining magnate, is valued for probate at £600,000. Ministers to-day completed a scheme for combining irrigation and wheatgrowing aloDg the Murray frontages. Homesteads will be granted along the river front of about forty acres extent, twenty of whicji will be irrigated. Each homestead will have an addition of four hundred acres of interior land. The charge for irrigation water will not exceed fifteen shillings per acre per annum. Mr Bent informed Mr Deakin that ho had no intention to charge rent for Parliament House, but asks £gooo a year for the use of Government House.

A Bill for the Suppression of Gambling will be introduced into the State Assembly next (session. It provides that a judge, if not satisfied to the contrary, may issue a certificate practically declaring that a place where gambling has been carried on is in legal quarantine.

Hobart, May 81. In the Assembly the motion to adournto June 20 was carried by 18 to