GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1765, 5 June 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

Bjj telegraph, Pima Aaa'n, Co&yrlgh

London, Juno 2.

Advioea from Tills; atato that Turks woro caught cutting wood at Degoir, in Russian territory. Turkish eoldiers intorvenod, and exchanged shots with Russian frontier.guards. Ono of tho latter was killed.

I St. Petersburg, Jaap 2. Admiral Roulhvonsky and olovon oUioora will be court-martialled for eurI rendering on tho Bildoyy. tTbo Douma has deoidod loprooeed with tho Bill lo abolish capital punishment. Revolutionary excoases oontinuo in Poland. Eight Government alcohol storeß wero robbed at Z;chliD, and at Piontent the poet offico was robbed. At Nioponent and Glubl tho communal offioos wero robbed aud deetroyod.

BorliD, June 3. Tho Kaiser opened tho Feltow Canal, connecting the rivers Spril and Havel which ooet two mjlliqn storling. It is eight feet drop, and joins Berlin with Hamburg.

Belgrade, June 3, A hundred and twebty Hungarian members of Parliament and journalists were feted at Belgrade on the occasion of a visit for the purpose of a proclamation of the brotherhood of Hungary and Servia.

Vienna, June 8. In consequence of a wages dispute in oonnootion with building, the Builders’ Association of Lower Austria looked out 150,000 bricklayers aud allied laborers. Morocoo, June 3. Moors found the Gla<gow steamer Oraighall stranded on the ooast, and are preventing the approaoh of ealvago steamers. A torpedo boat hae boen despatched to the soene from Gibraltar. Constantinople, June 2. The Porte haß paid £BSO lo tho owners I of the German ship Odysseus, OiviDg to a heavy galo and lumpy sea operations in connection with the battleship Montague have been suepeDded. Bome of the guns were temoved iD lighters.

New York, June 2, Canada’s coniribution to the San Frt>n. oieco eufftrers’ fund bas been acoepted through Icoal channels, President Roosevelt acquiescing. Washington advices stale that Ihe Senate have deoided that supplies f r Panama Canal shall bo purobarod in Ameiioa un’o3s tho President deems the prioo extortionate.

Sydney, June 3. The Vincennes was towed off and brought safely to the harbor. She is practically undamaged. The Minister of Lands, replying to a deputation at Gundagai, protesting against ihe Dansyz experiments, said the Government had not the slightest intention to let loose any disease with which there was

the slightest possibility of endangering the public health. A large amount of misapprehension existed on the question, and the opposition was mostly from those in terested in preserving the rabbit industry. The Government were not such absolute lunatics as to take any risk in such a matter. He would rather walk out of office to-morrow than do anything to •1 liftfet -gb-flrtliu 'iutui on the land was to stop. The Government are spending six hundred to seven hundred thousand lighting the rabbit, which was now more numerous than over. He would be within the mark in saying that the shrinkage in the capitai value of land due to the rabbit was eight to ton million pounds. Within fifteen years the value of Western division property decreased by SO to 00 per centum. The police raided an alleged two up school in Castlercagh street, and arrested 55 persons. Waddy has notified the Cricket Association that he lias withdrawn from the agreement with the Melbourne Cricket Club.

Melbourne, June 4. Sir John Forrest states that he is .bsolutely opposed to Federal land taxa-

Mr Bent proposes to thoroughly organise a Labor Bureau on New Zealand lines. . Two hundred and fifty unemployed, headed by Tom Mann, attended morning service at the Anglican Cathedral. Archbishop’s Clarke’s sympathetic address dealing with labor questions was punctuated by numerous pertinent interjections and exclamations of approval from the unemployed,

Adelaide, June 4. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against Caldcr for Shooting Ledoux. Fremantle, June 4. Another plague case is reported.