GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1914, 25 October 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

j I’IIESS ASSOCIATION —COl-YiIKIUT London, Oct. 23. Lowyuklin, Ohinoso Consul in South Africa, who is visiting Louuon, states that tin- C'hinoso in tho Tr ansvaal aro perfectly satisliod with their treatment. Thoir percentage of crime is much lower than that of auy other section of tho population. Tho month’s weather in London lias boon liko that of tho Riviera. Spring dowers aro blooming, while snow is falling in Scotland, and on tho Lam* mermoor hills lies live foot doep. Parliament has ro-assombiod without incident. At the inquest on Macfadon, the bankrupt financier, a vordict was returned that lie committed suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind. Tho prico of Wolsh steam coal has boen fixod at sevontoen shillings per ton for next year’s contracts. A Gothonburg company and English capitalists have bought copper mines at titorastraud, Sweden, payiDg one million four hundred thousand pounds. An elderly man ran under the King’s motor at Hydo Park corner. The King directed his conveyance to the hospital and romained till ho was assured the injuries were not very serious. Bank of New Zealand debentures are at 103. Paris, Oct. 23. Official statistics show that monks and nuns belonging to the dissolved orders of Prance show they have reentered sixty out of every hundred schools as lay teachers, resuming dogmatic instruction. Radicals demand the secularisation of the schools. M. (llemoncoau has reconstructed the Cabinet as follows :—M. Clemenceau, Premier and Minister of the Interior ; M. Puton, Foreign Affairs ; M. Guyotdessaign, Justice; M. Oalliux, Finance; General Piquart, of Dreyfus case fame, Minister of War ; M. Yiv* sano, Labor and Hygiene The other portfolios remain unchanged, except that of tho Minister for the Colonies, which has not been filled. Tokio, Oct. 23. •Japan is indignant at the San Francisco Board of Education excluding children of Oriental parents from the public schools, and compelling Coroaus, Chinese, and Japaneso to attend a special school, Alio Japanese refuse to send their children to these schools. The Eastern States do not sympathise with the anti-Japanese agitation in California.

Madrid, Oct. 23. A wire stretched across tho road at Lasros to stop King Alfonso’s motor, returning to Madrid from Eseulial, stopped a private car. Two rulfians fired at tho occupants and decamped. Berlin, Oct. 23. The vintage at the Rhine vineyard is the worst for rnauy years. The damage is duo to parasites, and amounts to half a million pounds starling. New York, Oct. 23. Mr T. P. O’Connor, in a speech at New York, declared that the Nationalists would accept nothing but an Irish Executive responsible to the Irish Rouse of Assembly. Calcutta, Oct. 23. Lord Kitchener is suffering from fever, and is resting at Umballa. Sydney, Oct. 24. Tho Rev, Mr Pratt has been elected chairman of the Congregational Union.

Mr Reid declared that the only chance tho Deakin remnant had of living was by servitude to the Socialistic machine and Labor caucus, He appealed to tho electors to restore politics to a higher level, in which great principles ranged them in sympathetic groups.

Perth, Oct. 24. The age 3 of the victims of the boating fatality ranged from nine to twenty-two. No other boat was in the vicinity at the time. Melbourne, Oct. 21. - Mr Deakin states that no reply has boon received to the last cable sent by the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments to tho Imperial authori** ties in reference to the New Hebrides convention. IE the convention desired it would have permitted Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia to make aDy tariff changes they thought fit with a view to develop the New Hebrides by opening markets for its products. The Cabinet has adopted a number of amendments to the Gambling Bill. The circulation of all Australian newspapers containing advertisements or information regarding lotteries is prohibited. Tho numbor of racing days on any course is limited to sixteen annually at the outside '* he amend--meats do not contain any exemption of racecourses, to that as the Bill stands the only permission to bet on a course is that given at common law.

In connection with the four million loan failing due on July next, in view of tho tightness of tho money market and that holders of stock could do better with thoir cash, the Premier has instructed the Agent-G-eneral to inform bondholders that the Government are prepared to purchase the stock now if the holders give consideration in the way of discount.