GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1919, 31 October 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

I'ItHSM ASSOCIATION — COl‘Yßiflin'

London, Oct. 29

Tlio Franoo-Spanish mivnl demonstration in Moroccan waters, reported yesterday, was made at tlio instanco o£ tho Moroccan Government, which was aware that the Algcoiras agreement made Franco and Spain responsible for tlio maintenance of order in Moorish ports.

Tlio abandonment of tho stoamor Onvovsluim Grunge roprosonts a loss of a quarter of a million. Tho stamlard warmly commends tho spirit ii\ which Sir Joseph Ward, Mr Massoy, and tho Now Zealand Parliament mot tho distasteful Now Hebrides convention.

Many mootings of groeors havo boon hold throughout tho country in protest against tho soap trust. A definite plan of campaign is boing prepared against tho trust.

Now York, Oct. 29. Only six passongors escaped from tho two cars precipitated oil ■ tho rails at Atlantic City. A woman survivor dived four times in soareh of hor husband, and brought four bodies to tho surface, tho fourth being her hueband’s, who revived.

Paris, Oot. 29.

M. Puton, tho now Fronch Minister of Foroign Affairs, in an interview, said bo intended to maintain tlio Franco'-Russian alliance, and . tho friondiy understandings with Britain and Italy. Tho corpses recovered from the sub' ruarino Lutin, which sank last week with a crew of sixteen, during the French naval mancoavros, aro somewhat disfigured and blackenod by acid.

Tokio, Oct. 29,

Four thousand students of the Japancso military colleges are to inspect the Manchurian battlefields. Berlin, Oct. 29. At the close of a lecture delivered in Berlin University by Professor Burgess, tho first occupant of tho Roosevelt chair of American History, the Kaiser called for cheers for’President Roosevelt, who, he said, was the incarnation of all the good qualities of his nation.

Bagdad, Oct. 29,

Fifteen thousand Persians residing at Bagdad aro greatly excited and threaten to imitate the example of their Kerbela compatriots. Sydney, Oct, 30.

Professor Haswoll, while taking deop sea soundings, twenty-five miles off Sydney, seeurod a good haul of new and interesting marine animals and vegetable specimens. A meeting of those interested in sport has resolved to form a sporting league, embodying all branches _of legitimate sport, in defonce of individual and against tho encroachment of puritanical legislation. Mrs Willis was called in the lands conspiracy cases, but declined to give evidence against her husband. The police have seized an outhouse in the vicinity of the wharves, whera a number of bales, exactly simulating to bales of wool, but containing dried grass, were stored. The supposition is that they were prepared up country and with the assistance of draymen or others handling wool, as opportunity offered, were shipped amongst consignments of wool. Investigation is proceeding.

The Broken Hill miners’ ballot will be completed on Wednesday.

Melbourne, Oct. SO.

Mr Tom Mann and the other Socialists arrested yesterday havo been fined, Mr Mann’s ami others’ lines were paid, but some uf the others declared that they would go to gaol. After his release Mr Mann, while addressing a meeting, was again arrested.