GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1840, 22 August 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I‘ItHSS ASSOCIATION OOPYItUIIIT Lomlou, August 20. It is estimated tho English hop crop will bo tho shortest sine. ) 1882. A collision at/Saltcoats station, Scotland, injured seventy passongers, liftoon seriously. New York. August 20. Tho Pan-American Congress asked I tho Hague Tribunal to pronounce on its merits on tho Monroe doctrine concerning the forciblo collection of Stato debts. Paris, August 20. Burglars, supposed to bo motorists, stole from Mont Saint Michael Church, Paris, treasures, including a golden crown set with diamonds, worth several thousand pounds sterling. Havana, August 20. Several 'prominent Cuban Liberals have been arrested for plotting to as-> sassinate President Palma. Molboumo, August 21. Building- trade employees are seek' ing a reduction of hours to -11, at current rates of pay, tho reduction to commence in November. The Deputy-Mastor of the Mint estimates that 70 per cent of the halfsovereigns in circulation in Victoria are below tho legal weight. The Federal Treasurer will bring tho mat ter before tho Cabinet 11 is the practice of the Imperial Mint to re habilitate the gold currency, and the Treasurer will endeavor to arrange to have jtho work carried out locally, rather than to ship tho light coins to England. In any case the matter will, j together with tho coinage and (decimal I system, be discussed by tho the Irn- 1 peiial Conference next year. j