GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1877, 5 October 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

ritliSS ASSOCIATION—COmtIQIIT London, Oct. 13. Ogdons Limited, a tobacco firm, pay £90,001) to settle bonus claims, which wore stated to involve a sum of two _ millions. The Rov. Edgar Stanward’s appeal , at Uoma against a lino imposed for libol on Major Hajerstroui in connection with tho Congo atrocitios has boon posl poned for a year. The Union Steamship Co. of Now Zealand has purchasod tho steamer i Holy wood. Belgium and Moro'-co hnvo ratified fho Algeciras protocol, although tho French press imply that Germany’s diplomacy is delaying execution of reforms sanctioned by tho Conference. The trial of JI.M.N. Dreadnought’s turbines was vory satisfactory. The double rudders proved a great advantage. Pome, Oct. 3. After a cinematograph entertainment at tho Palace Kacconigi, the Xing of Italy shook hands with the entertainer, who proved to be Dutts, a notorious anarchist, who the police are now prosecuting for obtaining access to the King by moans of a false statement. Madrid, Oct. 3. The Spanish Government propose to borrow two million pounds sterling to construct five thousand primary schoo’s. New York, Oct. 3. Cotton in New York has made a further rise of 35 points. Tne National Irish League Conven-. i tion at Philadelphia forwarded Mr Redmond’s Parliamentary funds fourteen thousand pounds. President Joseph F. Smith, the veteran head Mormon and chief of the Latter Day Saints, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been arrested in New York for Laving six wives and forty-three - children.

Melbourne, Oct. 4. Owing to the quantity of remains found in Albert Park the theory is there were two victims, one a woman. Mr Bent states it is time they authorised a revision of tho land tax He regards the valuations in some instances as ridiculously low. Sydney, Oct. 4. The health authorities have beon advised that two deaths from plague have occurred at New Caledonia since September 24th. The steamer Lord Antrim, detained by tho navigation authorities owing to defective life-saving gear, put to sea, bound for Melbourne, in defiance of the order of detention.

The Rev. Dr Bruce has sailed for Auckland to attend the jubilee celebrations of the Presbyterian Church. The Sydney Morning Herald, commenting on the proposed South African treaty, says that seeing we already supply South Africa with something like two-fifths of their total imports, preferential proposals are merely a farcical pretence adopted to bamboozle somebody, but whether the South African or our own electors is not quite certain.

Perth, Oct. 4. An earth tremor of intense severity was recorded on the seismograph yesterday. A preliminary tremor c m» menced at 10.3 am. Long waves followed five minutos later ; therefore tho centre of tho disturbance could not have been vory far distant, say, between two hundred and three hundred degrees of the arc. There were two maxima tremors respectively at 10.18 and 10 21, and these times the pendulum swung* right across the film. Tho whole disturbance lasted two hours.