GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1875, 3 October 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

ritHSS ASSOCIATION—COPVRIOUT London, Cct.l. In tho quarter's rovonuo stamps woro responsible for £1,810,000. Mr Ilaldano, in a spoech at Proston Pans, declared that much might bo achiovod by shibing national defence on to volunteer organisation in a fashion heretofore not aocomp'ished. fLo believed they had roachod a stage when tho regulars must accept volunteers, and tho latter regulars, as both belonging to tho singlo organisation of a national army. Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent statos (hat advices havo been received from Tokio that tho Japanese rVinistry havo asked Parliament for twenty-sovpn million pounds storliug to bo distributed withiu a poriod from now till 1913, for construction and repair of warships, and construction of a dockyard at Hiroshima. Mr 8011, a member of the llouso of Commons, commenting on tho Grantham disaster, strongly denounces the employment at a promium of apprentices as firemen of express trains. Tho damage by fire to tho New Zealand Shipping Company’s s.s. Whakatano was less serious than was at first reported, bho sails at the end ol Ootobor.

Paris, Oct. 1. M. Clemenceau, speaking at La

Rochesur-Yonne, taunted tho Pope with obediensly submitting himself to the Kaiser, who was tho protects of Islam, while uncompromisingly opposing the Fronch Republic. France would tolerate no foreign interferenco with its legislation. Pietermaritzburg, Oct. 1.

The steamor Cranloy has landed at Durban fifteen hundred and fifteen Chinese, the last to bo imported under the existing ordinance. Pekin, Oct. 1.

Dr Pokotoiloff, Russian Minister at Pekin, hints at tho early installation of Chinese Customs on the Russian frontiers of Manchuria. Tho first section of the Pekin Kalgau railway will be opened when the line is. extended to Kaikhta, and will briDg Pekin within 12 days of London.

Sydney, Oct. 2,

The Jockoy Club hold an inquiry into the running of Hydrant in the Hurdles on Saturday, as compared with his running a week earlier at Hawkesbury.

Melbourne, Oct. 2

A trolly ran down a dip at Jumbuona coal mine. Fifteen men were injured four, Richardson, Green, Brown and Clark seriously. Perth, Oct. 2.

The men engaged at the timber mills, with the exception of the Karridale mill, have struck against a reduction of wages under tho arbitration award. Three thousand workers are affected.

The Budget statement discloses a deficit of £119,000. Tho Premier states that although a watchful eye must be kept on the expenditure the Government recognises that a boll forward policy of development of public works must be undertaken. For the past three years they had spent more than they had received, but he thought the corner had now been turned.