GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1866, 21 September 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, Sept. 19. A Royal Commission, with Viscount Selby as chairman, including Sir Wm. Collins, Sir John Macfadjean, also Mr Walter Gaske)J, has been appointed to enquire into vivisection and ihe vivisection law. New York, Sept. 19. Mr C. H. Harriman, Chairman of the Uuiou Pacific railway, with others, is negotiating for eight mdlion pounds worth of shares in the Baltimore-Ohio railroad, recently bought by Messrs Kuhn ar.d Loeb from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Avoiding to the Now York Tiibun-j, the deal has been practically accomplished, enabling Harriman and T. C. Frick to mako tiro Union Pacific the first trans-continental road.

l'owio accepts a Zionist pension and retires.

Mexico, Sept. 19. Mexican Government surveyors discovered rich alluvial deposits at the Place river, near Alberta, on the Colombia boundary. Johannesburg, Sept. 19. Ratcliffe, a Rand labor Leader, has been chargod with perjury in connection with statements of cruelty to Chinc-so coolies. He was acquitted owing to the Chinese witnesses giving conflicting evidence. Morocco, Sept. 19. As MaeliD, a fanatical Saharan sorcerer, who has been the Sultan’s guest at Fez, ’was returning to Singh, his followers looted a French store at Casabianca. They wounded several Europeans and tried to incite the populace against the Christians. Buenos Ayres, Sept 19.

Argentina expends six and a half million sterling on land forts, floatiug batteries, and strengthening the fleet unless tho other Republics limit their aimaments Berlin, Sopt. 19. A Berlin company has secured acon» tract for five hundred London motor omnibusses at a cost of £325,000. Sydney, Sept. 20.

In the Lotteries Amondment Bill, the Attorney-General stated that he was prepared to accept au amendment making persons buying, selling, or receiving tickets in Tattersall’s sweeps liablo. Melbourne Sept. 20. A now Life Assurance Bill provides that foreign companies opening busN ness in tho Commonwealth must deposit to tho extent of two thirds of the valuation of their policies. "When the latter deposit is made the original deposit of £20,000 may be withdrawn. The preferential debate is dragging aloDg. The proposal has been criticised severely by both sides of the House. Mr McLean urged that the Government postpone the proposals and formulate a more complete scheme during the reees3. He regards the amount of preference shown to Britain as miserable. Ocher protectionists suggested postponement till after the Imperial conference and the report of the Tariff Commission had been recsived.