GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1855, 8 September 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I’RKSS ASSOCIATION —UOI'YHIUUT London, Sept. 6 Sir H. Campbell Bannerman, intorviowrd re 4 the Niou Frio Presso statement, stated that Russia had no stable

Government, and it was impossible lo

remove all hindrances to a good understanding or to establish an entento similar to that of France. Sir H. 0. Bannerman denounced tho South African war as infamous, criminal, and wholly unnecessary. The Trade Union Congress resolved

to urge tho Government to establish pensions of at least live shillings weekly to all men and women over sixty years of age. The Times states the markot has given up tho overdue vessels Ferdinand Fischer and Columbia.

Hoaly won the Invitation 100 yards race at Edinburgh in 59 secs , beating Yuille, the Scottish champion, He also beat Yuille over fifty yards in 20 2-5.

The English Cricketers sail for Now Zealand on Octobor IS. The barque Kodenbeck, bound from Newcastle to Liverpool, has been posted as missing. Councillor Cunningham has been committed to prison for having ignored the injunction against grabbing lauds at Plaistow by the unemployed. Lord Lindley, in a letter to the press, says the Trades Disputes Bill contains demands so unjust and unreasonable that it is hardly credible the House of Commons will paes it. Johannesburg, Sept. (1. Eighteen Chinese at Johannesburg were sentenced to 20 lashes and seven years’ imprisonment for an attack on a homestead at Rlipriversberg in March.

Capetown, Sept. G. Lord Elgin has forbidden the threatened railway rebates. If the Cape and Natal persist Lord Selborne will level up the rates on the Grangia lines to enable Natal to retain the trade of the Northern portion of Orangia. A gang of Chinese attacked a solitary trooper stationed at apolieehut at the East Rand. Four were captured but their comrades released them.

Calcutta, Sept. 6 Tho rice faminoin Bengal is spreading-

vVhen crowned at Calcutta Nath Bannerjeo, the loader of the recent agitation against the partition of Bengal, made a violent speech. He declared that many British manufac tureswere defiled and unfit for religious natives to use.

India proposed to open a new route to China by railway from Assam to Szechuan Thibetans welcome the enterprise.

Vienna, Sept. 6. Louis Spitzel, an ex-Australian, and the late Li Hung Chang’s adviser, has died at Carlsbad, leaving two million pounds sterling.

Paris, Sept. 6 Commenting on the Deutsche Kevue statement, French papers ask what is the moaning of the incessant reinforcement of the garrison of Alsace-Lor. raine if Germany admits that France’s policy is pacific.

Sydney, Sept 7. The Immigration League intend to invite several representative British farmers to visit Australia and see the opportunities offered to agriculturists. Melbourne, Sept. 7. His colleagues unanimously offered Mr Deakin a High Court judgeship, but the honor was declined. The Ngatiawa, bound from Greenwich to Auckland, has been signalled at Wilson’s Promontory and reported all well.

Adelaide, Sept. 7. As. a result of the inquest on Mrs Ray, Dr Sheridan has been committed for trial for murder. He is still at large.

Perth, Sept. 7. An important witness in connection with the gold stealing, a woman whose transactions in gold with the mint amounted to £14,000 during the last two years, has disappeared.