GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1853, 6 September 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

I'KKSrf ASSOCIATION —COTVHHiUT London, Kept. 4>. Numerous deaths from heat liavo occurred in tho United Kingdom and abroad. Thnro is a groat scarcity of milk in London.

Tho Parliamentary Committee advise the Trade Union Congress that it should bo no longer content to fight for a living wtigo, but should demand a higher standard of living in order that families might participate in all tho good things that mako life bright, happy, and comfortable. Calcutta, Sept. 4.

There is excitement in India owing to the crowning of Calcutta with regal honors at the surrender of the agitation against the partition of Bengal. The native press condomnthe proceeding. Berlin, Sept. 4. Herr Dornburg, manager of the Bank of Commerce and Industry, has succeeded Prince Hohouloho as acting; director of the Colonial Department of the German Foreign Ollice. Sydney, Sept. 5. The Crown Lauds Administration Bill lias boon introduced. It places the Lands Department under the corn* trol of a Commission. Perth, Sopt. 5. Eighteen thousand tins of various kinds of canned meats and fish have been seized by the authorities as being badly blown and unfit for consumption. It is asserted the bulk was packed in Chicago. A man named Moore has been sentenced to six months’imprisonment for finishing false returns regarding gold selling transactions. Melbourne, Sopt. 5.

Mr Cozier has given notice in the Houso in connection with preference to Britain, that the goods on which preference is conceded must be the produce exclusively of British white labor and imported in British vessels manned by white seamen.

Mr Deakin introduced a Bill amending the Constitution, giving power to impose special Customs duties for special purposes. Such duties shall not bo subject to the throe-fourths return to the States, but shall be used solely by Federation. The object is to provide funds for old age pensions. In the Senate the Contingent Bill received its quietus on a test vote. Brisbane, Sept. 5.

In the financial debate Mr Pbilp declared tho Federal finance was most unsatisfactory to Queensland, which had more reason for dissatisfaction than any other '.State. She lost over two millions since the inauguration of federation, and was losing all tho time, for he could see the Federal Government had no intention of dealing fairly with the States. The constitution provided that the Commonwealth should take over and compensate tho States for certain properties, but not a farthing compensation had boon paid. The Commonwealth should shouller its own responsibilities and should pay interest on transferred properties. Queensland revenue was expanding, and tho amount to bo received from the Commonwealth would be greater each yoar ; therefore it would be absolute folly for the Government to enter into an arrangement under which she would receive a fixed sum annually. He. believed other States would join Queensland in demanding the return ,of the full threefourths of Customs and excise revenue. Queensland had no desire for penny postage, which would further reduce her revenue. Queensland would have to inaugurate an immigration scheme of her own. At the end of the year she would need 5000 agricultural laborers for the sugar industry. They could not be had in Australia. He did not desire to see the scum of Sydney and Melbourne flocking here.