GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1867, 22 September 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I’UESS ASSOCIATION— COI'YItIGHT

London, Sept. 20. Tho Antwerp wool sales liavo oponod with a email attendance. Tho sales aro quiet and irregular - . Comparod with July prices, merinos foil 5 per cent.,, erossbrods 10, and fine cross - , brods wore mainly maintained at July prices. There woro 247 1 halos of La Plata ofTored, aud 886 sold. Tho Princoss Royal is still confinod to her bed, but is progrossing favorably. Bank of Iroland stock fell from 030 to 307 in ton days, owing to an alarm over tho Government Homo Rule intentions Miss Kellorman swam a mile at Eastbourne baths in 33min 22sec, boating tho lady’s record by 132 Seconds. Tho lato Mr J. L. Toolo’s estate is valued at £79,961. Many bequests are made to friends. Paris, Sept. 20. Admiral Fuurnier has published a report in which he considers that submarines having a wido radius of action aro tho best auxiliary to large warships off tho coast. One type does not exclude tho other. Ottawa, Sept. 20. The Manitoban Government has decreed that all schools receiving State aid must lly the Union Jack during school hours, on pain of forfeiture of grants.

The Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, at a meeting at Winnipeg, urged the Government to establish a steam lino from Eastern Canadian ports to Australasia.

Pietermaritzburg, Sept. 20. At the Natal elections, Mr Smythe headed the poll. All tho Ministers wore returned, and the bulk of candidates opposed to union with the Transvaal. Durban and Ladysmith each returned one Laborite.

Calcutta, Sept. 20. Tho Ameer of Afghanistan has inimated that he will bo unable to visit ndia until Decombor.

New York, Sept,. 20. It is reported that Mr Erick sold, at one hundred and fifty-four dollars, one hundred thousand Reading railroad shares which he purchased at one hundred and forty,

Adelaide, Sept. 21. Br Sheridan, who was committed to trial by a coroner’s jury on a charge of murder on September 7th, but could not be found by the police, has at last been arrested in the city. A Mrs Ray was found dead in the doctor’s surgery with evidence that she had been subject io t an illegal operation, and it is over her death that the charge arises. Ihe Council insists on its amendments to tho Franchise Bill. A conference of the two Chambers will now take place.

Perth, Sept. 21. A delegation of Italian agriculturists, under Chevalier Zunini, has arrived to investigate the merits of the State for Italian immigrants.