GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1814, 21 July 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I’IiKSS ASSOCIATION—COI’YIIKUiT London, July 10. Tho unemployed soiled another plot of land on the outskirts of Marioliostor. Lady Cur/,on’s death was tho outcome of an illness two years ago. G. A. Turner, a Victorian, scored 92 in tho first stage of tho King’s prize and qualified for tho second stago.

W. G. draco, tho eolobratod cricketor, on his lifty-oighth birthday, scored 74 in a match Gentlemen

against Playors. Wolff abandoned tho attempt to swim tho English Channol after being in tho wator 10 hours.

Sydney, July 20. After tho adoption of tho new standing order, Mf Carruthers moved a resolution for suspension of Mr Crick until tho jury in tho criminal trial now ponding had given their vordict, or until further ordered. Mr Crick was absont from 1110 House and Mr Car-

ruthers’ attempts to communicate with

him having failed the dobate was adjourned till Tuesday. It was also moved that so much of the Land Commission’s report as related to the findings against Mr Crick, which was previously withdrawn bo censored from the business papor. Tho resolution was adopted. The thermometer in Sydney yesterday registered 2D degrees, tho lowest July reading for eleven years. .The higher suburbs exposed to the water wore thickly covered with ice.

Of twelve hundred and nineteen candidates for tho University examinations, eight hundred and forty-five passed. The Magistrate decided in connection with a two-up prosecution that a military reserve is not a place under the Gambling Suppression Act.

Over one hundred stovomakers employed by Metteas and Company, Newtown, have struck, as a protest against the introduction of piece instead of day w T ork.

Melbourne, July 20. The racehorse Windy goos to India, but will be raced at Melbourne first. A bootmaker named Peterson has been bequeathed £40,000 by a brother, resident in Denmark. v A telephone boy, who sent a message from Flemington on Saturday, altored the Footscray Steeplechase winner from Error to Bluejacket. A number of tote shops paid bets on it. The boy confessed that a man formerly employed in the Postal Department induced him to send the wrong name, promising him twenty pounds. When he met the' man to receive the money, he was told somebody had made trouble, and he could not have it. In the House of Eepresentativesjthe Bill providing for suppression of military canteens was read a third time. It comes into operation on October Ist. Mr Johnson moved, in order to encourage the settlement of the Southern Pacific, especially the New Hebrides, a rebate bo allowed on the products of all British settlers entering the Commonwealth. On Mr Deakin’s suggestion, the debate wa3 adjourned until a reply was received from the Imperial authorities to the representations made by Mr Seddon and himself regarding the New Hebrides.

The Sonato debated Mr Stanford Smith’s motion to allow a limited number of press messages over the Pacific cable free of charge. Members generally condemned the existing press services. Mr Keating stated, tho matter had been under considera-

tion previously. The Pacific Board refused to countenance the scheme. Some objections to it were insurmountable. After a dobate, mostly favorable, but recognising tho difficulties, the motion was withdrawn.