LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1853, 6 September 1906, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 10.56 p.m., September 6. London, September 5. The battleship Lord Nelson has been launched at Barrow.

Robert Charles Taylor, signalman on the cruiser Vindiotive, has been sentenced at Bheerness to two years for throwing the flotilla sigoal-book overboard.

Capetown, September 5,

The Yolkstem states that it is the manifest duty of Britain, not the taxpayers of the Transvaal and Orangis, to honor army ofSoers’ reoeipts. It criticises other details, and adds that the question of compensation must be reopened.

Calcutta, Septembers'.

Lord Minto reoeives in Ootober a representative deputation of Mahommedans from all India. The idea was conceived before recent events emphasised their feelings regarding their political position. Sydney, September 5. Arrived, Alsxa, from Wanganui. Sailed, 1.40 p.m., Victoria.

Newcastle, Sept. 5, Sailed, Handa Isle, for Auckland. Brisbane, Sept. 5, Arrived, Tomoins, from Dunedin.

Large Estates and the Graduated Tax, THE RESULT OF SUBDIVISION,

[(Special to Gisborne Times.) Wellington, last night. Speaking during the debate on tbe Budget this afternoon, Me Hogg read a table he had compiled showing the loss to the revenue by subdivision of estates that are, however, still worked as one estate. He said he had made his oaloulations on the basis of the return B 24 C, presented to Parliament in 1905:

Reduced tax through division Capital Grad, of Value Tax Estate £ £ £

Hawke’s Bay County— Hugh Campbell ... 95,934 624 484 W. T. Sorimgeour... 4'2,380 154 89 Hobson County— A. Harding ... 4,348 4 nil Waipawa County— W. Rathbone ... 45.740 178 38 8- Gollau 146,605 1336 783 Patangata County— MoUardy 123.066 960 661 J. N. Williams ... 92,392 577 534 Maaterton County— H. Holmes ... 44 563 162 S 9 Ada Meredith ... 39.659 134 44 T. C. Williams ... 36 302 122 64 Algar Williams ... 97.758 636 144 Hugh Beetham ... 39,620 134 87 Oastiepoint County— G. Mansell 47,322 184 53 Featberston County— O. G. Bidwill ... 102,806 696 227 E. J. Riddiford ...101,864 689 556 Cheviot County— A. W. Rutherford... 18,736 34 2 Akaroa Couuty— T. O. Hay 75,440 412 284 O. B. Thacker ... 55.746 513 126 Ashburton County— I J. C. N. Grigg ... 112,211 SlB 535 Mackenzie County— Una McLean ... 24,170 56 6 Waitati County— Agnes Reid ... 31,391 g 8 . 17 Waitaki County— J. K. Gilohrist ... 34,929 121 41 0. Des Tesohemaker 52,4-14 218 68 Thos. Paterson ... 5.190 1 nil Bruce County— Adam Begg ... 42,745 155 27