GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1918, 30 October 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

TRUSS ASSOCIATION—COTYUIOIIT

London, Oct. 28

Franco and Spain have oacli despatched a warship to Tangier, Morocco, owing to tho capture of an Englishman and a Spaniard at A/,ila, twenty miles from Tangiors. Tho Moorish protondor, liuusuli, on behalf of tho Sultan, capturod A/.ila on Saturday aftor a sovoro light, and impriaonod the chief kaids. King Monelik of Abyssinia rofuaea to assent to British-Franco-ltalian agreement. Tho convicta who escaped from Gloucostor gaol liavo boon rocaptured at Lydnoy, hiding amongst hay in a barn. The mon did not resist whon caught. Mr Koir llardio, tho labor loader, in a spoeoh, lnm declared that ho had tried to make hia class tha ruling class. 11 o expressed sympathy wiri the suffragettes, and said that no Government could uiford to coiitinuo Banding womon to gaol because they demanded votes.

Mr Auston Ohamborlain has been elected the first president of tho Young Mon’s Unionist League, which hus been established with headquarters at Birmingham, and branches throughout tiie United Kingdom. Lord Hugh Cecil, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Halifax addressed the English Church Union’s great demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, against tho Education Bill, Melbourne, Oct. 29.

.Deductions have boen made in the State railway rates for agricultural products totalling ,£BO,OOO. This is in addition to previous reductions amounting to £50,000. Tho Commonwealth revenuo for the quarter shows an increase of £3-12,000 ovor the last corresponding quarter. A strike in the building trades is considered inevitable. Both sides are firm, and non-Unionists are supporting the Unionists’ demands.

Adelaide, Oct. 29.

Tho South Australian Advertiser estimates the State’s wheat at 21,031,000 bushels, an average of 11.88 bushels to the acre.

Sydney, Oct. 29,

A mixed train collided with a mail train standing at Molong station, 170 miles north-wost of Sydney. Ten passengers vi ero slightly injured.

A mass mooting of Broken Hill miners has resolved to take a ballot on the question of derfianding a conference with the Managers’ Association regarding increased wages and shorter working hours. The speakers declared that tho managers had made tho recent advance in wages in order to avoid a conference.

Stanbury, the sculler, is a passenger by the Wimmora, andjis on his way to fulfil an engagement with Webb at Wanganui.