GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1932, 14 November 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

TRUSS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT London, Nov. 12

Tho local Marino Board’s Advisory Committee consists of representatives of local marino boards, shipowners, certificated officers, and engineers, seameD, firemen, and ongineeis. The President of tho Board of Trade re-, fairs powor to nominate tho Government representative. Preparatory to tho South African intercolonial conforonco on railway rates, Dr Jameson’s interviews with Lord hlg’n will load to a vivendi which is practica'ly a compromise, connected with the rales and the distribution of portions of OraDgia’s trade between tho Cape and Natal ports. An agrooment has boon signod between Waiwupu, of the Chinese Foreign Ofiico, and the British Chinese Corporation for the construction of the Oanton-iCauluDg railway. This means raising a million and a half sterling by way of loan.

Berlin, Nov. 12.

In the now year tho NordeutscherLloyd reduce the time of the passage from Southampton to Fremantle to 34 days, and to Sydney to 43 days.

Brussels, JNov. 12,

Several Belgian newspapers, replying to tho threat made by Lord Ripon in his Guildhall speech, dealing with tho treatment of CoDgo natives, adopt a defiant tone.

Calcutta, Nov. 12 Naoroji is President at the Indian National Congress at Calcutta. Paris, Nov. 12.

A balloon crossed the Alps from Milan to Aux les-Baines, at an altitude of 6000 metres.

(Melbourne, Nov. 13.

At the Victoria amateur athletic meeting Davis won the 440 yards hurdles championship in the world’s record of 58;J-sec. The winner is aged 18.

A Canadian Lacrosse team contemplates visiting Australia next winter. A strike of slaughtermen occurred at private freezing works at Footscray, which are largely engaged in the rx port of frozen lamb. The men demanded an advance of 25 per cent in wages. The strike is not supported by the Union, and is a defiance of the decision of the Wages Board.