GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1863, 18 September 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I’ItISSS ASSOCIATION COI'YItIOUT London, Sopt. Iff. A motor car containing- tho Duchess of Connaught and hor 1 daughter killed a lioy at Hounslow. The accidont was duo to tho boy’s fault. Wilding won tho South of England tonnis championship at Eastbourne. Tho Spectator, referring to its experimental voluntoer company, emphasises that it is poasiblo to form a militia forco at comparatively small cost.

Paris, Sept. 16,

Extraordinary precautions are being taken to protect President Eallieres, who is now on a visit to tho Marseilles colonial exhibition. The houses along tho routo of tho procossiou woie soarchod for bombs, and six anarchists wore arrested.

Sydney, Sept. 17-

Tho racehorse Slooper roceived injuries at EosohiU on Saturday which necessitated his destruction.

The experiment of school camps is about to be tried. Tno Education De« partmont’s object is to bring boys into contact with country life. The first school will consist of twelve units of twelve boys each, a master beiDg in charge of each unit. They will visit a well-managed farm and camp there for a week. The first schools start on October 10th,

The empioyos of the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, meet to-day to con sidor whether, in view of the high price of metals, tho case for increased wages should not be cited for the Arbitration Court.

Melbourne, Sept. 17.

Attempts were made to wreck the train from Bendigo and a train at Kangaroo fiat. Dynamite caps were placed on tho rails, while some sticks of gelignite were jammed into a space between the rails. In some way the caps became detached from the gelignite, and no harm was done.

The burglary at the King’s warehouse was not so serious as at first expected. Tho thieves took electro instead of silver plate. The Steamship Owners’ Federation and Seamen’s Union have signed au agreement increasing wages ten shillings per month, and making several new regulations in reference to overtime and hours.

Brisbane, Sept. 17. The Government have received advice that the judges’ petition asking the King to disallow the Act passed last session to compel payment of income tax on judges' salaries has failed Judges, therefore, will have to pay.