GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1874, 2 October 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

I'KHHS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT London, Sopt. 30. Tim Now Zealand ‘-flipping Company's profit for tho year amounted to DmVH-l. A dividend of 5 por cent is declared, and tltoro is carried forward .613 75 L.

'J lie Daily Nows naval correspondent .suggests that some of tho oldor British warships which aro about - o bo removed from tho notivo list, bo offered to tho Commonwealth as training ships f >r seamen,

Tho British quarterly revenue was gfsl 259.(152. Customs contributed .i'11,2 12,9 It), excise £'5426.000, estate duties 61,929,029.

Members or Mr Ivoir HurdeV'n labor party aro receiving two 'hundred pounds yrieli, the party tints ox...ending .63290 out of an income of .61000. it is proposed to raiso contributions of one penny por head, thereby raising £BOOO.

Clydo boiier-makors, to tho number of sovon thousand, hnvo struck for a five per cent increase in piecework and oue shilling and sixpence weekly increase fur time work.

Constantinople, Sept. 30,

Turkey has accepted Britain’s straight lino of demarcation at Akabah. St. Petersburg, Sept. 30. Genoral Stoessel has been removed from the army list and placed among the retired genera'l9. Further proceedings on the court-martial findings have been dropp'd

Sydney, Oct. 1. All disputes in the South Maitland collieries have finally been settled amicably, and woilc will bo in full swing this week

Tho weather is dull and showery. Adelaide, Oct. 1. Obituary : Dean Maryatt, aetat SO Perth, Oct. 1.

The Political Labor League dissent from tho resolution in regard to secession passed by tho State Parliament.