GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1849, 1 September 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

I’ItKSS ASSOCIATION— COPYIUGHT London, Angus’ 30. Colonel J. Wallace Hczior lies brquoathod £IOOO and all his Now Z u~ land property to Alfred Davis, his faithful servant.

Dr Stubbs, Dean of Ely. has boon appointed Bishop of Truro. The Times describes him as a 1 lyman’s bishop. Camillo Clifford, a Gibson girl apponrirg in a vaudovillo theatre, has heroine engaged to tho son and heir of Baron Abedero.

Wolllo again failed to swim tho Channel. Burgess has re-started to swim across.

At cricket, Yorkshire against Somerset, Hurst made 1L and 117, and captured 1L wickets for 11(5,

The overdue ship Ferdinand Fischer :s now uninsurablo

During the last twelve months New South Wales granted four hundred and nineteen assisted passages to im~ migrants, taking £-1-1,000 capital with them. Inquiries are increasing, and forty live immigrants wero booked this week. Professor Wallace, Professor of Agriculturo at Edinburgh University, in a newspaper interview, offered to obtain ono hundred Scotch farmers, with an average capital of /’SOU, to emigrate to New South Wales if land was provided of equal quality as the Myall G'rsek estate, at the same prico and on the same terms of payment.

Two men broke a window of the Orient Pacific Steamship Company’s office in Cockspur street, and stole two New South Wales Government quartz specimens, valued at £1250 and £l5O. Tho Financial Times says that al though prosperous and progressive, New Zealand is rather forcing the pace in regard to development work and public expenditure generally. The Budget suggests anything but economy.

Berlin, August 30. Thoik, the English mronaut, the vie tin of the balloon accident reported yesterday, survives. He broke his fab by swaying to and fro on a trapeze. Ho was badly stunned. His jaw wps broken. He fell ono thousand feet. Sydney, August 31. After a stormy night the weather has cleared. The sea is still very rough. During tho gale the steamer Archer bumped against the barque Klginshire, both being slightly damaged. At Newcastle the steamer Coolon was driven back into the harbor after deck cargo and the horses and calves were washed overboard. In the northern districts the falls of rain have been up to eight inches. Tho Legislative Council reinstated the Railway Commissioners Bill.

Melbourne, August 3L. The Bounties Bill passed through Committee. It was amended to provide that the total amount of bouuties should be £500,000, extending over a period of ten years. The maximum expenditure in any one year is not to exceed £75,000.. The bonus on fish is reduced from £ LI,OOO to £9OOO, and on sweetened condensed milk has been raised from a farthing to a half-penny, powdered milk a half-penny to a penny. The miscellaneous bonus is raised from £7OOO to £9OOO. Sir W. Lyne stated it was proposed to divide the bonus as far as possible proportionally between tho various States. Regarding the development of the fishing industry, he announced a New Zelander possessing a fleet of trawlers had offered to undertake the work contemplated. He was inclined to think it might be desirable to accept the offer in, preference to building a special trawler. The Senate rejected the Canteen Abolition Bill.

Brisbane, August 31, Splendid general ruins have fallen Adelaide, August 31.

The Treasurer has delivered the Budget. The revenue for the past year amouuts to £IBO,OOO over the estimate, and the year closed with a surplus of £87,000, after £21.000 had been set apart for redemption of deficiency. The estimated revenue for the current year is £2,790,000, the expenditure being £2,79i,0Q0. The Treasurer referred to the favorable prospects as regards the harvest, and the general prosperity ; lambing had averaged from GO to 90 per centum. The produce exported through the Government depots had reached the record value of £200,000. The railway revenue was a record. The Government’s progressive Land Tax prc* posals would be the same as last session.