GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1784, 15 June 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright.

London, June 13.

Sevon million of two and threequarter per cent, of Irish land stock is being issued at a minimum of oightynine.

Thomas Fergus has been gazetted Argentine Vico-Consul at Dunedin. Obituary : Doctor James Stewart, ono of tho pioneers at Ballarat, aotat eighty-two. He had resided in England for forty years. His estate in England is valued at two hundred thousand. There are many bequests to charitable, educational, and religious institutions at Melbourne and Ballarat.

If line weather continues the Admiralty hope to salve and repair the Montagu. The Perthshire fire is - confined to hold four, and between the, decks. Mr Edison has discovered rich fcels of cobajt in Carolina and,.* Tennessee, which he believed" will, revolutionise electrical traction.

Capetown, June 13. Owing to the sad condition of the Boers in the Argentine, Dr JameeoD, Premier of Cape Colony, is trying to dissuade others from emigrating.

Melbourne, June 14. The Addressin-Reply was concluded in the House, and reports of-the Commissioners in the various States on redistribution adopted. , Fremantle, June 14. Arrived, Britannia. Mr S. Gollan, the New Zealand sportsman, is a passenger.

Newcastle, June 14. In consequence of the strike of the clippers and wheelers at Pelaw main colliery, the owners have decided that unless the men return to work this afternoon they will shut down the mine.