GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1856, 10 September 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I‘KKSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Loudon, Sept. 7 In a match, Gentlemen versus Players, Wynyard scored 137. Mr Winston Churchill, writing to Mr Greenwood, a momber of the Houso of Commons, who is travelling iu Canada, asks him to try and convince the Canadians that the C n ervatives do not monopolise interest iu Imperialism, and that tho advent of Liberals did not mean weakening British affection for tho colonies or a belief in the ultimate aim of a solid defensive league of free democratic communities, animated by love of peace and justice under the leadership cf tho Crown. Huddart, Parker and Co. are building at Hartlepool and Tay two six thousand ton steamers for the Australian trade. Betting on the boat race is G and -4 to 1 in favor of Cambridge. The Tribune states that Messrs Deakin and Eeid, and many foreign statesmen, have forwarded birthday greetings to Sir H. C. Bannerman. Now York, Sept. 7. Hippie, manager of the Beal Estate Trust at Philadelphia, who suicided

after misappropriating the funds, left a memorandum stating that Adolph Segal, a company promoter, fooled him, and got all h : s money. He estimated his losses at two million pounds sterling, ruining six thousand depositors. Segal, with the banks treasurer and assistant treasurer, will be prosecuted. Valparaiso, Sept, 7 Perceptible subsidences have occurred in the Cordilleras, and repeated earth shocks have been felt at Valea, Chili. Sydney, Sept. 8. At the tramway enquiry one witness asserted that ladies of some promin» ence in society were engaged as private inspectors "Witness offored to supply the names, but the Chairman of the Commission would not allow him. Mr Lemnre, organist, has accepted an invitation from the Wellington City Council to revisit that city. Melbourne, Sept. S. Mr Deakin announces it will be impossible to deal further with the Tariff Commission reports this session, al3o that it is desirable the general election should be held by the end of November. Mr Bent’s Bill to restrict boxing is ready. It will prohibit boxing for money. It contains some drastic pro visions, breach of which is punishable by imprisonment. Brisbane, Sept. S A young woman named Campbell, proceeding by the steamer Kuranda to Townsville, on a charge of shooting and seriously wounding a Japanese, squeezed through a porthole and was drowned.